St. Louis History Timeline

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• 1685-02-18 Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
• 1764-02-15 St. Louis, Missouri founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclède

• 1816-08-24 The Treaty of St. Louis is signed by the USA and the united tribes of Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi in St. Louis, Missouri
• 1816-12-30 The Treaty of St. Louis is proclaimed.
• 1849-05-17 Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis, Missouri
• 1859-07-01 Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St Louis
• 1861-05-10 Union troops march on state militia in St Louis, Missouri
• 1861-08-14 Martial Law is declared at St Louis, Missouri, due to pro-secession sentiment which surged throughout Missouri after the Battle of Wilson's Creek
• 1861-10-25 Telegraph message sent from St Louis to San Francisco

• 1876-02-02 Baseball's National League forms at the Grand Central Hotel, NYC with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia and St Louis
• 1876-07-15 Baseball's first official no-hitter: George Bradley of the St Louis Brown Stockings no-hits the Hartford Dark Blues, 2-0

• 1878-12-12 Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch"
• 1881-02-01 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri authorized
• 1881-07-01 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens
• 1884-11-25 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
• 1887-10-26 "World Championship" Baseball Series, Sportsman's Park, Detroit Wolverines (NL) beat St Louis Browns (AA), 10 games to 5 in series played in bitterly cold conditions
• 1892-04-21 Black longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis, Missouri
• 1896-05-27 Tornado hit St Louis, killing 255, leaving thousands homeless
• 1901-07-15 NY Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St Louis, 5-0
• 1902-07-17 Orioles forfeit to St Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL
• 1904-04-20 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis

• 1904-07-23 Ice cream cone created during St Louis World Fair - the 1st cone reputedly by Charles E. Menches
• 1904-09-03 For the only time in Olympic Games history, there is a throw-off in the discus final after Americans Martin Sheridan & Ralph Rose tie with a best throw of 128' 10½" in St. Louis; Sheridan wins with 127' 10¼"
• 1904-10-28 St Louis police try a new investigation method - fingerprints
• 1904-11-23 III Summer (Modern) Olympic Games close in St Louis
• 1906-09-24 St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
• 1907-08-11 St Louis Cardinals pitcher Ed Karger throws a perfect game vs Boston Doves; wins 4-0 in 7 innings at Robison Field, St. Louis
• 1910-07-31 Chicago Cub King Cole no-hits St. Louis, 4-0, in a 7-inning game
• 1911-06-30 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes

• 1915-04-24 Pittsburgh Rebels' Frank Allen no-hits St Louis Terriers (Federal League), 2-0
• 1915-09-07 St Louis Terriers' Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago Whales (Federal League), 3-0

• 1917-03-17 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis, Missouri
• 1917-07-02 Race riot in East St Louis, Illinois escalates - Black neighborhood attacked and burned, 40-200 killed over 2 days and 6000 left homeless [1]
• 1922-06-12 St Louis Cardinals make MLB record 10 straight hits in 6th inning of a 14-8 win over the Phillies at the Baker Bowl, Philadelphia
• 1922-09-25 Giants beat St Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant
• 1924-07-17 St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
• 1927-04-29 Construction of Spirit of St Louis (the monoplane which Charles Lindburgh was to fly across the Atlantic) is completed

• 1927-05-21 Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St Louis, lands in Paris after the first solo air crossing of Atlantic
• 1927-09-29 Tornado strikes St Louis, Missouri, 85 die
• 1930-03-02 1st US indoor glider flight, St Louis Terminal Building
• 1930-10-04 Philadelphia Athletics' Jack Quinn aged 47, oldest to play in World Series; pitches 2 innings in Game 3, 5-0 defeat to St. Louis; win series, 4-2
• 1931-07-12 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles, 11 in 1st game & 21 in 2nd game for 32
• 1934-09-21 St Louis Cardinals pitching Dean brothers shut-out Brooklyn Dodgers in a doubleheader; Dizzy, in a 13-0 rout and Paul, with a 3-0 no-hitter
• 1934-09-30 St Louis Card clinch pennant as Dizzy Dean wins his 30th of year

• 1935-10-15 NHL's St Louis Eagles fold
• 1936-01-02 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis, Missouri
• 1936-12-09 AL OKs night baseball for St Louis
• 1937-06-06 Philadelphia Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game

• 1938-12-07 W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St Louis Post-Dispatch by radio
• 1939-02-23 Lou Thesz beats Everett Marshall in St Louis, to win the National Wrestling Association World Heavyweight C'ship for a 2nd time
• 1939-05-13 SS St Louis departs Hamburg, Germany with 937 Jewish refugees, bound for Havana, Cuba; authorities refused to admit them, and most of the passengers returned to Europe [1]
• 1939-06-06 The ship MS St. Louis, carrying 907 Jewish refugees from Europe, begins sailing back to the continent after it was refused entry into America. Approximately a quarter of those on board would perish in the Holocaust.

• 1940-07-09 8th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-0 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
• 1941-06-05 Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
• 1941-08-30 St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0
• 1943-06-04 St Louis Card Mort Cooper pitches his 2nd consecutive 1 hitter
• 1944-10-04 The only all-St. Louis World Series opens at Sportsman's Park with the visiting Browns beating the Cardinals, 2-1 on George McQuinn's home run; Cards win series, 4-2

• 1946-05-21 Physicist Louis Slotin is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation while preparing a plutonium core experiment at the Los Alamos lab, he dies 9 days later and the accident ends all hands-on nuclear assembly work at Los Alamos
• 1946-06-17 SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis
• 1946-07-06 "St Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater, NYC, after 113 performances
• 1947-02-08 KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1947-04-25 Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St Louis, to win National Wrestling Association world heavyweight title

• 1947-11-21 Bill Longson beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to win National Wrestling Association World Heavyweight title
• 1948-07-13 15th MLB All-Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-2 ,at Sportsman's Park, St Louis, Missouri

• 1955-07-30 42nd Tour de France: French cyclist Louison Bobet claims last of his 3 straight general classification victories
• 1956-11-09 Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St Louis, to become NWA wrestling champion
• 1957-06-15 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)
• 1957-07-09 24th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-6 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
• 1959-01-09 Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis, to become NWA champ
• 1959-02-10 Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265
• 1959-03-25 Bill White traded to St Louis for pitchers Sam Jones & Don Choate
• 1959-10-04 First Baseball World Series game played west of St Louis; LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox 3-1 in Game 3; record 92,394 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

• 1961-11-26 For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
• 1963-09-29 Cardinal's celebrate Stan Musial Day in St Louis, for Stan Musial's final game, where he hits his 3,629th & 3,630th total hits (475 HRs)
• 1964-05-25 Ground is broken for new Busch Memorial Stadium in St Louis; opens in 1966, demolished in 2005

• 1964-09-13 St Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2
• 1965-06-21 US Open Men's Golf, Bellerive CC: Gary Player of South Africa beats Australian Kel Nagle by 3 strokes in an 18-hole playoff to win his only US Open title; completes his career Grand Slam at age 29

• 1965-10-28 Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
• 1965-11-09 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis
• 1966-01-07 Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to become NWA wrestling champion
• 1966-05-08 Last game at old Busch stadium, St Louis Card lose 10-5 to San Francisco
• 1966-07-12 37th All-Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 inninngs, at Busch Memorial Stadium, St Louis
• 1967-08-12 New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St Louis 23-14

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• 1813-03-22 Gabriel René Paul, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1886)
• 1820-05-23 James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis), born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana (d. 1887)
• 1820-12-17 Frederick Tracy Dent, American General (Union Army), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1892)
• 1824-12-26 Augustus Louis Chetlain, American Major General (Union Army), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1914)
• 1836-09-13 John McCausland, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1927)

• 1851-02-08 Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, American writer, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1904)
• 1871-11-10 Winston Churchill, American author (Crisis, Crossing), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1947)

• 1874-10-12 Jimmy Burke, American baseball third baseman Pittsburgh Pirates; coach World Series 1932 NY Yankees; and manager St. Louis Cardinals 1905, Browns 1918-20, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1942)
• 1875-03-25 Spencer Charters, American actor (3 Faces West, Big Town Girl, St Louis Kid), born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania (d. 1943)
• 1877-09-28 Stanner E.V. Taylor, American director and screenwriter (Lucky Jim, Ramona), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1948)
• 1879-07-05 Dwight F. Davis, American politician (49th United States Secretary of War) and founder of Davis Cup, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1945)
• 1879-11-08 King Baggot, American actor and director (Tumbleweeds), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1948)
• 1882-01-05 Herbert Bayard Swope, U.S. journalist who coined the term "Cold War", born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1958)
• 1887-11-15 Marianne Moore, American poet (Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1972)

• 1888-11-02 Dutch Zwilling, American baseball outfielder (Federal League HR all-time leader), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1978)
• 1891-04-15 Wallace Reid, American actor, director and screenwriter referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover" (Every Inch a Man), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1923)
• 1893-12-23 Ann O'Neal [Patsy Ann Epperson], American actress (Professional Father), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1971)
• 1894-10-11 Albert Stoessel, American violinist, conductor, composer, and educator, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1943)
• 1894-12-03 Bert Baston, American College Football Hall of Fame end (University of Minnesota), born in St. Louis Park, Minnesota (d. 1979)
• 1897-09-05 Morris Carnovsky, American actor (Dead Reckoning), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1992)
• 1897-11-18 Jules Buffano, American composer and pianist (Jimmy Durante Show), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1960)
• 1898-03-10 Cyrus "Cy" Kendall, American actor (Tarzan's New York Adventure, Mysteries of Chinatown), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1953)
• 1899-03-28 August A. "Gussie" Busch Jr., American brewing magnate (chairman Anheuser-Busch 1946-75) and baseball executive (owner St. Louis Cardinals 1953-89), born in St Louis (d. 1989)
• 1899-06-16 Helen Traubel, American soprano, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1972)
• 1899-10-14 Red McKenzie, American jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1948)
• 1899-12-03 Howard Kinsey, American tennis player (French Open doubles 1924, US Open doubles 1926; Wimbledon singles 1926 runner-up), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1966)
• 1901-08-30 Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist and longtime executive director of NAACP, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1981)
• 1902-09-13 Leland Hayward, American producer (Mister Roberts, Spirit of St Louis), born in Nebraska City, Nebraska (d. 1971)
• 1903-01-10 Violet Wilkey, American actress, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1976)
• 1903-06-21 Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (NINA, NY Times), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 2003)
• 1903-08-13 Wilton Graff, American actor (Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1969)
• 1903-11-03 Walker Evans, American photographer (Fortune Magazine), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1975)
• 1904-01-14 Emily Hahn, American journalist and author, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1997)
• 1904-01-17 Patsy Ruth Miller, American actress (Quebec, Wide Open, Sap, Twin Beds), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1995)
• 1904-08-18 [Francis] Max Factor, American CEO of Max Factor Cosmetics, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1996)
• 1904-09-04 Julian W. Hill, American research chemist (developed nylon), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1996)
• 1904-11-01 Laura La Plante, American actress (Show Boat, Scandal) known for her work in the silent film era, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1996)
• 1905-12-08 Frank Faylen, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life, Funny Girl), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1985)

• 1906-09-20 David Sheinfeld, American violinist and composer, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2001)
• 1906-11-07 Eugene Carson Blake, US Secretary-General of World Council of Churches (1966-72), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1985)
• 1907-03-27 Mary Treen (née Summers), American character actress (It's a Wonderful Life; Kitty Foyle; The Joey Bishop Show), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1989)
• 1907-04-20 William Dollar, American ballet dancer and choreographer, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1986)
• 1907-06-17 Charles Eames, American designer and architect, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1978)
• 1907-08-12 Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges, Let's Make Love, Africa Screams), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1988)

• 1908-06-17 Frank Sully, American actor (Along Came Jones, Phantom Thief, Inside the Law), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1975)
• 1908-11-08 Martha Gellhorn, American novelist and journalist who was one of the first female war correspondents, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1998)
• 1910-06-13 Mary Wickes [Wickenhauser], American character actress (Father Dowling Mysteries; Sister Act; Dennis The Menace), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1995)
• 1911-04-28 Lee Falk, American comic strip writer (The Phantom), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1999)
• 1911-05-27 Vincent Price, American actor (House on Haunted Hill, Fly, Laura), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1993)
• 1911-11-27 David Merrick, American theatrical producer (Hello Dolly), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2000)
• 1913-07-18 Marvin Miller [Mueller], American actor (Space Patrol, Dead Reckoning, Millionaire), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1985)
• 1913-09-13 Roy Engle, American writer and actor (The Man from Planet X, The Wild Wild West, My Favorite Martian), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1980)
• 1913-10-20 Barney Phillips [Bernard Philip Ofner], American actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1982)

• 1914-03-01 Harry Caray, American Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster (Chicago Cubs), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1998)
• 1914-03-08 Jacob B. Bakema, Dutch modernist architect (St Louis Missouri), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1981)
• 1914-03-13 Edward O'Hare, American naval aviator of the U.S. Navy, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1943)
• 1915-09-13 Clint Frank, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1937; Yale), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1992)
• 1915-12-01 Johnny Johnston, American singer (Make that Spare), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1996)
• 1916-07-23 (William Jennings Bryan) "Ben" Weber, American composer (Thorne Music Award, 1965), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1979)

• 1917-04-12 M Marie Wadlow, American softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1979)
• 1917-06-28 A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2020) [1]
• 1918-07-16 George Mueller, NASA Systems Engineer (managed 1969 Moon landing), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 2015)
• 1918-09-21 Rand Brooks [Arlington Rand Brooks Jr.], American actor (Gone With The Wind; Rin Tin Tin), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2003)
• 1919-07-10 (Ralph) "Rusty" Gill, American singer (Polka Time), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 2008)

• 1920-11-02 Dick Sisler. American baseball utility (World Series 1946 St. Louis Cardinals; MLB All Star 1950), manager (Cincinnati Reds 1964–65) and coach (World Series 1967 St. L. Cardinals), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1998)

• 1920-11-30 Virginia Mayo [Jones], American actress (The Best Years of Our Lives, Out of the Blue, White Heat), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 2005)
• 1920-12-14 Clark Terry, American jazz trumpeter, born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 2015)
• 1921-02-08 Walter "Hoot" Evers, American baseball outfielder (MLB All-Star 1948, 50 Detroit Tigers), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1991)
• 1921-08-13 Jimmy McCracklin [Walker], American R&B pianist, and composer ("The Walk"; "Tramp"), born in Elaine, Arkansas (d. 2012)
• 1922-12-09 Redd Foxx [JohnSanford], American comedian and actor (Sanford & Son; Redd Foxx Show), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1991)

• 1925-06-18 Herman "Ace" Wallace, American blues guitarist and singer, born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1996)

• 1925-07-16 Cal Tjader, American Latin jazz vibraphonist, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1982)

• 1926-02-06 Walker Edmiston, American actor (Star Trek, Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, The Dukes of Hazzard), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2007)
• 1926-05-30 Edouard Van Remoortel, Belgian conductor (St Louis Symphony, 1958-62), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1977)
• 1926-07-29 Don Carter, American pro bowler (6 x Bowler of the Year; first athlete to earn $1m in single endorsement deal [Ebonite International]), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2012)

• 1927-04-29 Betsy Ancker-Johnson, American physicist (plasmas), inventor (high-frequency signal generator), first woman Presidential appointee to the Department of Commerce and first woman VP in the automotive industry, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2020) [1]
• 1927-07-06 Charles Whittenberg, American classical composer (Triptych for Brass), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1984)
• 1927-08-11 Raymond Leppard, British-American harpsichordist, conductor (Indianapolis Symphony, 1987-2001; BBC Northern Symphony, 1973-80), and composer (Lord Of The Flies), born in London, England (d. 2019)
• 1927-11-30 Robert Guillaume [Williams], American actor (Rafiki- The Lion King, Sports Night, Benson, Soap), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 2017)
• 1928-02-10 Gene Taylor, American politician (Rep-D-St Louis, 1973-89), born in Sarcoxie, Missouri (d. 1998)
• 1928-02-24 Michael Harrington, American author (Fragments of Century; The Other America), radio commentator, and political activist (Founder of the Democratic Socialists of America), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1989)

• 1928-10-02 Clay Felker, American journalist (NY Herald Tribune, Esquire), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2008)
• 1928-11-19 Don Hunstein, American photographer of musicians, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2017)

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