Lizzie Wise drew a crowd as she ascended in her balloon from the Grand Avenue Baseball Park in St. Louis. A stiff wind grabbed the balloon and she was whisked away. She was found the next day in Illinois, hanging from a treetop, unharmed.
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The first cross-state long distance call was made. The mayor of Kansas City called to his home from St. Louis.
Opening day of the World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Yankees.
The first regularly scheduled train service between St. Louis and Kansas City began on this day. It was an 18-hour trip.
An iconic Louis Sullivan building in St. Louis takes on a new life as an upscale hotel.
The Post-Dispatch reported that General Motors was planning to build a new plastic car in St. Louis. Sure enough, every Corvette in America was built there from 1953 to 1981.
Missouri Botanical Garden’s Shaw Nature Reserve offers natural wooded habitats for nature lovers year-round.
Antoine Robidoux was born into the prosperous St. Louis family of that name. His brother was the founder of St. Joseph but Antoine went further west and trapped, explored, and led pioneers into the new territories.
John Vincent scaled the Gateway Arch using suction cups. He then BASE jumped from the top.
St. Louis dedicated a monument to General Nathaniel Lyon on this date. Lyon was the first Union General to be killed in the Civil War.
Phoebe Couzins was born in St. Louis. She went on to become one of the first female lawyers in the United States and the first woman to be appointed to the US Marshall. She earned a law degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and she is now buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.
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The St. Louis Choral Society was founded by SLSO’s first Music Director Joseph Otten on September 1, 1880.
On this day Lieutenant Tito Falconi flew his open-cockpit airplane from St. Louis to Joliet upside down. He was happy to set the record for inverted flight but was a little worried also because one of the straps that held him in broke along the way.
District Attorney Thomas C. Reynolds and editor of the St. Louis Democrat, Benjamin Gratz Brown, fought a duel on Bloody Island. Brown was wounded, and Reynolds was unhurt. Brown went on to become Governor of Missouri, and Reynolds went on to become the Confederate Governor of Missouri.
The riverboat War Eagle burned in St. Louis.
The last buildings in St. Louis’ “Chinatown” came down on this date to make room for a stadium parking garage.
The Missouri Historical Society was established in St. Louis.
Sara Teasdale, St. Louis poet, was born on this date.
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St. Louis purchased its first steam-powered fire engine.
Birthday of Henry Shaw who spent most of his adult life trying to find ways to give millions of his dollars to benefit St. Louis. He is most famous for starting the Missouri Botanical Gardens and donating Tower Grove Park, the largest Victorian park in America.
Joseph Charless was born this day in Ireland. Meriwether Lewis (pictured) brought him to St. Louis where he became the first newspaper publisher in the west.
These savants of the smoker are dishing up barbecue heaven all summer long.
Birthday of boxing champ, Michael Spinks, from St. Louis. (Brother of Leon Spinks.)
Maxent, Laclede and Company of New Orleans was granted the exclusive rights to trade with American Indians in the Mississippi Valley on this day. Hence, Laclede and his stepson came upriver and established a trading post which they named St. Louis.
St. Louis Aquarium welcomes guests with new shows.
Josephine Baker was born on this day in St. Louis. In her time, she was a world famous dancer and jazz and pop singer. She was also a civil rights leader who defected to France, where she became a citizen in 1937.
Country crooner Jack Grelle switches gears for now on If Not Forever.