Today in Missouri History
Cities in Missouri: Springfield, MI - St. Louis
Historical Events
Results 1 - 71 of 71
1764-02-15 - The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established.
1805-03-03 - Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
1811-11-16 - Earthquake in Missouri caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards
1811-12-15 - Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri
1811-12-16 - 8.0 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
1812-01-23 - 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
1812-02-07 - 8.2 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
1812-06-04 - Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
1816-08-24 - The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
1820-03-03 - Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri
1820-12-20 - Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
1821-08-10 - Missouri admitted as 24th US state
1830-07-15 - 3 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, signs a treaty giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa & Missouri
1838-10-27 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
1841-04-06 - Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri
1841-05-01 - 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for Calif
1843-05-22 - 1st wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon
1846-08-14 - The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes near the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
1849-05-17 - Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri
1852-11-18 - Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles, Missouri. She would be canonized on July 3, 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
1854-05-30 - Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
1854-08-30 - John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
1861-06-12 - Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state
1861-08-16 - Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri
1861-11-28 - Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederate Army
1864-04-04 - Skirmish at Elkin's Ford (Little Missouri River), Arkansas
1864-09-27 - Battle at Pilot Knob (Ft Davidson), Missouri: 1700 killed/injured
1864-09-27 - Centralia Massacre (Missouri): "Bloody Bill" Anderson/Frank/
1864-10-15 - Confederate troops occupy Glasgow, Missouri
1864-10-23 - Battle of Westport, Missouri
1865-02-27 - Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
1865-03-12 - Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
1865-07-21 - In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.
1866-02-13 - Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000)
1866-10-30 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Lexington Missouri ($2000)
1867-03-02 - Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead
1867-05-23 - Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)
1868-12-07 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1
1874-01-31 - Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Missouri
1874-06-22 - Dr Andrew T Still, discovers the science of osteopathy
1875-07-07 - Jesse James robs train in Otterville Missouri
1879-01-22 - James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota
1880-04-18 - An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1881-02-01 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri authorized
1881-07-01 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens
1905-02-13 - -40°F (-40°C) Warsaw, Missouri (state record)
1911-03-03 - 1st US federal cemetery with Union & Rebel graves opens, Missouri
1911-06-30 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes
1916-01-18 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite stikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
1927-09-29 - Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri, 85 die
1928-07-07 - Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. It is described as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped".
1932-01-02 - Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri
1932-08-10 - A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
1934-06-14 - WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air
1936-03-27 - WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air
1944-01-29 - USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched.
1945-08-26 - Japanese diplomats board Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WW II
1945-09-02 - V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends)
1946-03-05 - Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton Missouri)
1954-07-14 - 118°F (48°C), Warsaw & Union, Missouri (state record)
1957-02-17 - A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72 people.
1957-07-06 - Harry S Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri
1965-07-20 - 18.18" (46.18 cm) of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record)
1965-10-28 - Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
1982-12-23 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
1983-02-23 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1987-12-06 - 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
1988-02-29 - KWK-FM in St Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG
1989-07-22 - Kristin Huxhold, 18, of Missouri, crowned America's Junior Miss
1991-12-20 - A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
1992-04-01 - Battleship USS Missouri (on which, Japan surrendered) decommissioned
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 37 of 37
1821-02-19 - Francis Preston Blair Jr, Lexington Ky, (Rep-Missouri)
1847-09-05 - Jesse James, Missouri, bank/train robber, son of a clergyman
1882-12-31 - Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway)
1884-05-08 - Harry S Truman, Lamar Missouri, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1953)
1889-04-15 - Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri, painter/muralist (Lonesome Road)
1893-12-23 - Ann O'Neal, Missouri, actress (Nana-Professional Father)
1898-07-04 - Johnny Lee, Missouri, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy)
1900-10-31 - Carl Hubbard, Missouri, baseball & football Hall of Famer
1900-12-25 - Gladys Swarthout, Deepwater Missouri, mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda)
1914-03-08 - Jacob B Bakema, urban developer (St Louis Missouri)
1916-07-23 - Ben Weber, St Louis Missouri, composer (Thorne Music Award-1965)
1923-11-20 - Beryl Sprinkel, Missouri, economist (Council of Economic Advisers)
1926-03-04 - James J. Eagan, Former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri (d. 2000)
1929-09-14 - Mel Hancock, (Rep-R-Missouri)
1929-12-02 - Harvey Phillips, Aurora Missouri, tubist (NYC Ballet Orch)
1935-01-15 - Malcolm Frager, St Louis, Missouri, pianist
1936-09-05 - John C Danforth, (Sen-R-Missouri, 1977- )
1939-03-06 - Christopher Bond, (Sen-R Missouri)
1942-11-02 - Shere Hite, St Joseph Missouri, sex therapist (Hite Report)
1944-05-15 - Bill Alter, Missouri State Senator
1944-11-17 - Eugene Clarke, Tipton Missouri, rock guitarist
1947-04-27 - Ann Peebles, Missouri, singer (I Can't Stand the Rain)
1949-02-22 - Leslie Charleson, KC Missouri, actress (Monica-General Hospital)
1951-10-16 - Alan Wheat, (Rep-D-Missouri, 1983- )
1951-11-14 - Sandahl Bergman, KC Missouri, actress (Conan, All that Jazz)
1953-07-24 - Claire McCaskill, American politician, junior senator from Missouri
1958-10-10 - J Eddie Peck, Joplin Missouri, actor (Bold & Beautiful-Cole Howard)
1958-10-18 - James M Talent, (Rep-R-Missouri)
1964-01-08 - Virgil Hill, Missouri, middleweight boxer (Olympic-silver-1984)
1964-06-06 - Sherry J Traylor, Mexico Missouri, Miss Missouri-America (1991)
1971-06-08 - Amanda Jahn, Miss USA-Missouri (1997)
1971-07-23 - Aimee Rinehart, Miss Missouri USA (1996)
1972-01-15 - Kimberly Anne Massaro, St Louis Mo, Miss America (Missouri-5th-1997)
1972-02-05 - Erin Phillips, Mexico Missouri, Miss America-Missouri (1996)
1972-05-20 - Michael Cox, Hannibal Missouri, 1.5k runner
1978-06-11 - Leah Sexton, Miss Missouri Teen USA (1996)
1978-08-29 - Larissa Meek, Miss Missouri Teen USA (1997)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 6 of 6
1820-09-26 - Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85
1864-01-31 - Hamilton Rowan Gamble, US judge/governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies
1943-12-15 - Thomas W "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist, dies at 39 in KC Missouri
1961-06-13 - Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway), dies at 79
1988-09-01 - Leonor Sullivan, (Rep-D-Missouri, 1955-77), dies at 86
1991-04-21 - Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74
