Wednesday, October 14, 1936. Shifting alliances.

Belgium withdrew from its mutual assistance treaty with France due to France's failure, which was a mistake, to react to German remilitarization of the Rhineland.

The abdicated former King Edward VIII declared he would not continue with the tradition of the Royal Christmas Message started by his father in light of his abdication.

Franklin Roosevelt continued his whistle stop tour, speaking in St. Louis and all over Illinois.

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Tuesday, October 13, 1936. FDR's Whistle Stop Tour of Kansas.

Labels: 1930s, 1936, 1936 Election, Colorado, Franklin Roosevelt, Kansas, Missouri, Railroads, Transportation, William Howard Taft

Tuesday, August 22, 1876. St. Louis votes to secede from St. Louis.

The city of St. Louis voted to secede from St. Louis County and become an independent city.

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Monday, August 21, 1876. Readjusting Texas.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, Texas

Thursday, July 17, 1924. Barracuda.

 

The USS Barracuda, the first of the Navy's V-boats, was launched.  She was decommissioned in 1937, recommissioned in 1940, served throughout World War Two and never fired a shot in anger.

And;

July 17, 1924: Jesse Haines throws the first no-hitter in Cardinals history

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Wednesday, July 16, 1924. First news story on Big Foot to go nationwide.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, Army, Cryptozoology, Dawes Plan, First Around The World Flight, It was because of World War One, Newspapers, Oregon, The Press

Sunday, February 11, 1923. Gang Wars.

The truce between the Egan's Rats and the Hogan Gang came to an end in St. Louis.  The breach of the peace came when the Rats invaded the Hogan territory on the north side and killed Jacob Mackler, a Hogan lawyer.

Ah. . . the good old days.

Monday, December 3, 1922. Erin go Bragh

The House of Lord voted to approve the Irish Free State Constitution Act of 1922 with only one dissenting vote.  That came from Lord Carson, who had blocked Home Rule in 1914, thereby ironically bringing about the Anglo-Irish War a couple of years later, and guaranteeing that Ireland would become an independent state.

Lord Carson, whose opposition to any independence for Ireland helped set it on the path to full independence.

Rudolph Valentino toured St. Louis.

French Legion in St. Louis, Missouri., Sept. 26, 1918

Sunday, April 18, 1909. St. Joan d'Arc beatified.

 St. Joan d'Arc was beatified by Pope Pius X before a crowed of 30,000 in St. Peter's Square.

Drawing of St. Joan d'Arc made during her lifetime.  

A patron saint of France who lived from 1412 to 1431 before being executed, her canonization would follow in May, 1920.

Remarkably, an example of her signature exists.

The 1909 St. Louis Cardinals were photographed.

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Saturday, April 17, 1909. Soccer riots.

1900s, 1909, actors and actresses, children, Rhode Island, Soccer, Sports, Teenagers, Washington DC, William Howard Taft

Monday, September 3, 1900. Labor Day, 1900.

It was American Labor Day.

The 1899 Hague Convention went into effect, binding those nations which had entered into it, which the US had not.

The South Carolina African American Capital City Guards, while giving an exhibition drill in Charleston, reacted to the watching crowed being stormed by white horsemen, with a few members even fixing bayonets. The incident would lead to their disbandment.

Numerous policemen were injured, and three killed, when a power line fell onto the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department's call box circuit.

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Sunday, September 2, 1900. Sunday.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Art