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2012 Event - Rick Majerus, the head basketball coach at Saint Louis University, announces his retirement due to health issues 2012 Event - U.S. golfer Bubba Watson defeats Louis Oosthuizen at the 2012 Masters Tournament in a sudden-death playoff 2011 Event - In Major League Baseball's World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals win Game 1 against the Texas Rangers 2011 Event - James Bullard, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis calls for the Federal Reserve to limit its purchase of U.S. Treasuries because they 'feed the fire' of inflation 2010 Event - An employee at ABB Power building in St. Louis, Missouri, commits suicide after shooting eight people, 3 fatally 2008 Death - William Louis Dickinson, Representative-R-Alabama 1965 - 1993, died from colon cancer 2007 Death - Louis W. Ballard, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee', dies of cancer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at age 75 2004 Event - World Series, Boston Red Sox beat Saint Louis Cardinals 4 games to 0 2002 Event - Super Bowl XXXVI, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, New England Patriots beat St. Louis Rams 20-17 2001 Event - 20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at St. Louis 2001 Death - Louis Edmonds, actor, Dark Shadows, dies at 77 2000 Event - Super Bowl XXXIV, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans 23-16 1997 Event - St. Louis Card Mark McGwire hits his 58th home run of 1997 (34 with Oak A's) 1997 Event - Mark McGwire signs with the St. Louis Cardinals for $26M 1997 Event - A's trade Mark McGwire to St. Louis Cardinals07940601 1997 Death - Louis Cohen, physicist, dies at 71 1997 Event - Atlanta Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals, 1-0 in 13 innings 1997 Event - St. Louis Cardinals Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits 1997 Event - San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals play at Aloha Stadium Hawaii 1997 Death - Louis Pauwels, writer/editor, dies at 76 1996 Death - Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, politician, dies at 87 1996 Event - Braves blow out St. Louis, 14-0 in an NLCS game 1996 Death - Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss, journalist/travel writer, dies at 42 1996 Death - Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79 1996 Death - Louis Gottlieb, musician, dies at 72 1996 Event - 122nd Preakness: Pat Day aboard Louis Quatorze wins in 1:53.2 1996 Death - Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82 1995 Death - Louis Malle, film director (Pretty Baby), dies at 63 1995 Death - Louis Levy, Jr., music publisher, dies at 84 1995 Death - Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91 1995 Death - Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger, dies at 63 1995 Death - Martin Louis "Marty" Paich, jazz arranger, dies at 70 1995 Death - Louis Krasner, violinist, dies at 91 1995 Event - Chiel Meijering's "St. Louis Blues," premieres in Arnhem 1995 Death - Louis Sen A Kaw, Suriname's great dam builder, dies at 75 1995 Death - Louis Heren, journalist, dies at 65 1995 Event - Los Angeles Rams announce that they are moving to St. Louis 1995 Death - Louis "Loulou" Gaste, guitarist/comp (Doggy in the Window), dies at 88 1994 Death - Louis Nizer, lawyer, dies at 92 1994 Death - Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter, dies at 62 1994 Death - Louis Myers, blues guitarist /harmonica player, dies at 64 1994 Death - Louis Benjamin, showman, dies at 71 1994 Death - Louis Calaferte, writer (Requiem of the Innocents), dies at 65 1994 Death - Louis Simmonds, bookseller, dies at 87 1994 Death - Louis Freeman, band leader, dies at 100 1994 Event - St. Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1 1994 Death - Louis Kaufman, U.S. violinist and conductor, 'Gone with the Wind', dies at 88 1994 Event - Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakham's murder 1994 Death - Louis R J Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor of Zoelen, dies at 87 1993 Event - Actress Loretta Young, 80, weds costume designer Jean Louis, 85 1993 Event - St. Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves 1993 Death - Billy Conn, boxer (fought Joe Louis 1951), dies of pneumonia at 75 1993 Death - Edwin Louis Battle, actor (Almost Blue, Chase), dies of stroke at 33 1992 Birthday - Louis Ducrut, prince/son of Princess Stephanie and Daniel Ducrut 1992 Event - Miami Dolphen Louis Oliver returns record tying interception 103 yards 1992 Event - 74th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 278 at Bellerive St. Louis 1992 Death - Viktor Louis, Russian journalist, dies 1992 Event - Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St. Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert 1991 Event - Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St. Louis 1991 Event - St. Louis Blues becomes 8th NHL team in Play-off to come back from a 3-1 deficit as they beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 in game 7 1991 Event - St. Louis Blues Brett Hull scores his 86th goal 1991 Event - St. Louis Blue Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season 1991 Death - Louis Seigner, actor (Eclipse, Special Section), dies in a fire at 87 1990 Event - Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe," premieres in London 1990 Death - Louis Althusser, French philosopher, dies 1990 Event - Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside park grandslam 1990 Event - Rosie Jones, (St. Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America 1990 Event - A's Dave Stewart no-hits Blue Jays and Dodger's Fernando Valenzuela no-hits St. Louis 6-0, 1st time no-hitters in both leagues 1990 Event - "Meet Me in St. Louis" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 253 performances 1989 Event - "Meet Me in St. Louis" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 253 performances 1989 Event - August A Busch III becomes CEO of St. Louis Cardinals 1989 Death - A A Busch, Jr., brewer/baseball owner for the St. Louis Cardinals, dies at 90 1989 Event - Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St. Louis at Shea Stad 1989 Event - Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St. Louis 1988 Event - New York Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs St. Louis Blues 1988 Death - Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84 1988 Death - Louis Quinn, actor (Unholy Rollers), dies at 73 of cancer 1988 Death - Louis L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie), dies at 80 of cancer 1988 Event - 1st non-pitcher, Jose Oquendo, in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he and St. Louis Cardinals lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn 1988 Event - NFL's St. Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix 1988 Event - KWK-FM in St. Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG 1988 Event - 39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St. Louis 1988 Event - NFL St. Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix 1987 Death - Louis de Meester, composer, dies at 83 1987 Event - Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series 1987 Event - St. Louis Cardinals beat San Francisco Giants, 4 games to 3 in NLCS 1987 Death - Mary Astor, actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St. Louis, Fiesta), dies at 81 1987 Death - Louis Philip Kentner, composer, dies at 82 1987 Death - Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94 1986 Death - Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 77 1986 Death - Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 76 1986 Death - Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian, dies at 90 1985 Event - Kansas City Royals beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series 1985 Event - Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals win their league championships 1985 Event - St. Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man 1985 Death - Louis Hayward, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), dies of lung cancer at 75 1984 Event - KWK-AM in St. Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD 1984 Event - Montreal Expo David Palmer no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0 in a perfect 5 inn game 1984 Event - KSD-AM in St. Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA 1984 Death - Louis Basile, actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48 1983 Event - St. Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0 1983 Event - Minnesota Vikings beat St. Louis Cardinals 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo) 1983 Death - Louis De Funes, actor and writer (Mad Adv of Rabbi Jacobs), dies at 68 1982 Death - Louis Aragon, French poet (Pour un Realisme Socialiste), dies at 85 1982 Event - St. Louis Cardinals beat Mil Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series 1982 Death - Louis J N Gerardin, bicyclist (world champ sprint 1930), dies at 69 1982 Death - Louis M de Guiringaud, French Foreign Minister (1976-78), commits suicide at 70 1981 Death - Louis Cheslock, composer, dies at 81 1981 Death - Joe Louis, also known as the 'Brown bomber', U.S. heavyweight champ 1937 - 1949, dies at 66 1980 Death - Louis Neefs, Belgian singer, dies at 43 1980 Event - St. Louis Cardinals sack Baltimore Colt quarterbacks an NFL record tying 12 times 1980 Event - Earnest Gray becomes 2nd New York Giant to score 4 TDs (vs St. Louis) 1980 Birthday - Chingy, born in St. Louis, Missouri, born Howard Bailey, Jr., rapper, debut album, 'Jackpot' produced hit titled, 'One Call Away' and went Triple Platinum 1979 Event - St. Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th and final base of his career 1979 Death - Louis Mountbatten, British Admiral of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA 1979 Death - Louis Salvador Palange, composer, dies at 61 1979 Death - Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Eros and the Lonely Man), dies at 67 1979 Event - Louis LaRusso II's "Knockout," premieres in New York City 1978 Death - Louis Prima, singer, dies at 66 1978 Event - Cincinnati Red Tom Seaver no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0 1978 Event - St. Louis Card Bob Forsch no-hits Phillies, 5-0 1977 Death - Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92 1977 Event - Miami Bob Greise passes for 6 touchdowns vs St. Louis (55-14) 1977 Birthday - James Louis McCartney, son of Paul and Linda McCartney 1977 Event - St. Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3 1977 Death - Louis J M Beel, Dutch premier (1946-48, 58-59), dies at 74 1976 Death - Louis Fourestier, composer, dies at 84 1976 Event - St. Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo) 1976 Event - St. Louis Cardinals Lou Brock and Hector Cruz hit inside-the-park home runs 1976 Event - St. Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 home run 1975 Birthday - Kristin Folkl, born in St. Louis, Missouri, volleyball outside hitter 1975 Birthday - Orlando Pace, tackle for the St. Louis Rams 1975 Event - Denv Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St. Louis Spirits 1975 Birthday - Ryan Tucker, NFL center for the St. Louis Rams 1975 Birthday - Lawrence Phillips, running back for the St. Louis Rams 1975 Birthday - Miguel Mejia, San Pedro de Macoris, outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals 1975 Birthday - Landon Wilson, St. Louis, NHL right wing for the Colorado Avalanche 1975 Death - Louis J H C A de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Gypsy Blood), dies at 66 1974 Death - Louis B Russell, Jr., longest living heart transplant, dies at 49 1974 Birthday - Jerald Moore, running back for the St. Louis Rams 1974 Birthday - Chris Pronger, NHL defenseman, Team Canada Olympics-1998, St. Louis 1974 Event - Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St. Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17 1974 Event - St. Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base 1974 Death - Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, dies at 63 1974 Death - Louis I Kahn, Estonia/US architect, dies at about 73 1973 Birthday - Muadianvita Kazadi, linebacker for the St. Louis Rams 1973 Birthday - Mitch Jacoby, tight end for the St. Louis Rams 1973 Birthday - Taje Allen, kicker for the St. Louis Rams 1973 Birthday - Dexter McCleon, cornerback for the St. Louis Rams 1973 Birthday - Gerald McBurrows, safety for the St. Louis Rams 1973 Event - New York Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St. Louis 1973 Event - Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson elected 1973 Birthday - Tony Banks, quarterback for the St. Louis Rams 1973 Birthday - Louis Laros, Dutch soccer player, Willem II, Vitesse 1973 Birthday - Billy Baumhoff, born in St. Louis, Missouri, soccer midfielder/forward, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics 1973 Birthday - Fred Miller, tackle for the St. Louis Rams 1973 Birthday - Eddie Kennison, wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams 1973 Birthday - Aaron Holbert, U.S. baseball infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals 1972 Birthday - Mike Gruttadauri, corner for the St. Louis Rams 1972 Birthday - Isaac Bruce, NFL wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams 1972 Birthday - Louis Michael Anthony Sassin, Boston, rocker, 4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun 1972 Death - Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 68 1972 Death - Louis Leakey, English anthropologist, dies at 68 1972 Birthday - Amy Frazier, born in St. Louis, Missouri, tennis star 1972 Birthday - David Bell, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals 1972 Event - N.Y. Cosmos beat St. Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship 1972 Birthday - Derrick Harris, running back for the St. Louis Rams 1972 Birthday - Ernie Conwell, tight end for the St. Louis Rams 1972 Birthday - Zach Wiegert, tackle for the St. Louis Rams 1972 Birthday - Keith Lyle, safety for the St. Louis Rams 1972 Birthday - Jeff Wilkins, kicker for the St. Louis Rams 1972 Birthday - Alan Benes, Evansville, Indiana, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1972 Birthday - Kimberly Anne Massaro, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Miss America, Missouri-5th-1997 1971 Birthday - Jay Williams, defensive end for the St. Louis Rams 1971 Birthday - Amp Lee, NFL running back, Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Rams 1971 Death - Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 71 1971 Birthday - D'Marco Farr, defensive tackle for the St. Louis Rams 1971 Death - Louis de Bree, Louis C Davids, Dutch actor (Bluejackets), dies at 87 1971 Birthday - Wayne Gandy, tackle for the St. Louis Rams 1970 Death - Louis Zimmer, Flem clock maker (Jubelklok, Wonder Clock), dies at 82 1970 Birthday - Keith Crawford, wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams 1970 Birthday - Toby Wright, safety for the St. Louis Rams 1970 Birthday - John Mabry, Wilmington, Delaware, outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals 1970 Birthday - Lucy Nusrala, born in St. Louis, Missouri, 5k runner 1970 Birthday - Ryan McNeil, NFL cornerback, Detroit Lions, St. Louis Rams 1970 Death - Juano Hernandez, actor (St. Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74 1970 Event - Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games 1970 Birthday - Bryan Robinson, defensive end for the St. Louis Rams 1970 Birthday - Jeff Robinson, NFL defensive end, Denver Broncos, St. Louis Rams 1970 Death - Albert Louis Wolff, composer, dies at 86 1970 Birthday - Brendan Eppert, born in St. Louis, Missouri, speed skater 1994 Olympics 1970 Birthday - John Frascatore, U.S. baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1970 Birthday - Ronald Moore, NFL running back, New York Jets, St. Louis Rams, Az Cardinals 1970 Event - 23rd NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 4-1 at St. Louis 1970 Birthday - T J Mathews, Belleville, Illinois, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1970 Birthday - John Gerak, NFL tight end/guide, Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Rams 1970 Birthday - Royce Clayton, born in Burbank, California, infielder, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals 1969 Death - Louis van Tulder, tenor (Kantoorkruk to high C), dies at 77 1969 Birthday - Mark Sweeney, Framington Massachusetts, outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals 1969 Birthday - Robert Person, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pitcher for the New York Mets 1969 Birthday - Patrick Alfred Bates, born in St. Louis, Missouri, PGA golfer, 1994 NIKE Dakota Open 1969 Birthday - Donovan Osborne, born in Roseville, California, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1969 Event - KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting 1969 Event - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA St. Louis Women's Golf Invitational 1969 Event - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games 1969 Birthday - Michael Jones, NFL linebacker, Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams 1969 Birthday - Louis Riddick, NFL safety born in Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons 1969 Birthday - Bryan Eversgerd, U.S. baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1969 Birthday - Todd Lyght, U.S. football quarterback for the St. Louis Rams 1969 Birthday - Robert Young, NFL player for the St. Louis Rams 1969 Birthday - Brian Boehringer, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pitcher, New York Yankees 1969 Birthday - Todd Kinchen, NFL wide receiver, St. Louis Rams, Atlanta Falcons 1968 Death - George Louis Francis Lewis, composer, dies at 16 1968 Birthday - Bill Johnson, defensive tackle for the St. Louis Rams 1968 Event - Detroit Tigers beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series 1968 Event - St. Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with 1.12 ERA 1968 Event - Gaylord Perry (Giants) no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 1-0 1968 Event - Gateway Arch in St. Louis dedicated 1968 Event - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games 1968 Death - Donald L Hall, airplane designer (Spirit of St. Louis), dies at 69 1968 Birthday - Roman Phifer, linebacker for the St. Louis Rams 1968 Birthday - Will Furrer, NFL quarterback, Houston Oilers, St. Louis Rams 1968 Birthday - Tom Urbani, Santa Cruz California, pitcher, St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers 1967 Death - Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55 1967 Event - St. Louis Cardinals Orlando Cepeda is 1st unanimous NL MVP 1967 Event - St. Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 64th World Series as Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 World Series 1967 Birthday - Dave Silvestri, born in St. Louis, Missouri, infielder, New York Yankees, Montreal Expos 1967 Birthday - Andy Benes, born in Evansville, Indiana, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1967 Event - New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St. Louis 23-14 1967 Birthday - Wendy Lian Williams, born in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. diver, Olympic-bronze-88, 92 1967 Birthday - Ray Lankford, born in Modesto, California, outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals 1967 Event - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St. Louis Women's Golf Invitational 1967 Birthday - Rick Wilkins, born in Jacksonville, Florida, Richard Wilkins, baseball player, catcher, played Major League teams San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, also played for Houston Astros, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, Seattle Mariners, New York Mets 1967 Birthday - Brian Jordan, born in Baltimore, Maryland, outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals 1967 Birthday - Dwayne "Road Grader" White, NFLer, New York Jets, St. Louis 1966 Death - [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Manner Kater), dies at 83 1966 Birthday - Thomas Louis Tolles, Jr., Ft. Myers, Florida, PGA golfer, 1995 Bob Hope-3rd 1966 Birthday - Bernard Gilkey, born in St. Louis, Missouri, outfielder for the New York Mets 1966 Birthday - Igor Kravchuk, Ufa Russia, NHL defenseman, Team Russia, St. Louis 1966 Event - 37th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 at Busch Stad, St. Louis 1966 Event - St. Louis' Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns 1966 Event - Last game at old Busch stadium, St. Louis Card lose 10-5 to SF 1966 Death - Louis A. Johnson, American Public Servant 1966 Birthday - Louis Oliver, NFL safety, Miami Dolphins 1966 Birthday - Rene Arocha, Cubans/US baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1966 Birthday - Britt Hager, NFL linebacker, Denver Broncos, St. Louis Rams 1966 Birthday - Anthony Parker, NFL cornerback, Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Rams, TB Bucs 1966 Birthday - Paul Ranheim, St. Louis, NHL left wing, Hartford Whalers 1966 Event - Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St. Louis, to become NWA champ 1965 Birthday - Mark Petkovsek, Beaumont, Texas, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1965 Event - 1st New York Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St. Louis 1965 Event - 630 foot high Gateway Arch completed in St. Louis 1965 Birthday - Vernice Smith, NFL guard, Washington Redskins, St. Louis Rams 1965 Event - Mary Mills wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open 1965 Birthday - Luis Alicea, born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals 1965 Event - 65th U.S. Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive CC in St. Louis 1965 Birthday - Todd Stottlemyre, Yakima, Washington, pitcher, St. Louis Cardinals, Blue Jays 1965 Birthday - Angela Zuckerman, born in St. Louis, Missouri, speed skater 1994 Olympics 1965 Birthday - Ron Gant, Victoria, Texas, outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals 1965 Birthday - Pat LaFontaine, born in St. Louis, Missouri, NHL center, New York Islanders, New York Rangers 1964 Event - Bob Petit (St. Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points 1964 Event - St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 61st World Series 1964 Event - Phils bomb Reds 10-0 as both teams finish one game behind St. Louis 1964 Birthday - Sherry Arnett, born in St. Louis, Missouri, playmate, Jan, 1986 1964 Event - St. Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2 1964 Event - St. Louis Cardinals are 11 games back in NL, and win World Series 1964 Event - St. Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader 1964 Birthday - Brett Hull, born in Belleville, Ontario, NHL right wing, St. Louis Blues, USA 1964 Birthday - Louis Clark, NFL receiver, Seattle, WLAF coach for the Amsterdam Admirals 1964 Birthday - Joe Magrane, born in Des Moines, Iowa, Joseph David Magrane, baseball player, pitcher, MLB Network broadcaster, played for Major League Baseball teams, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, California Angels, NBC sports analyst at 2008 Summer Olympics 1964 Death - Louis Gruenberg, composer, dies at 79 1964 Event - Ground is broken for a new stadium in St. Louis 1964 Birthday - Leslie O'Neal, NFL defensive end, San Diego Chargers, St. Louis Rams 1964 Birthday - Edward Anthony Richard Louis, Prince of Britain/Elizabeth II grandson 1964 Birthday - John Habyan, U.S. baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1964 Death - Louis Horst, composer, dies at 80 1964 Birthday - Krista Tesreau, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Tina-OLTL, Silk Stalkings 1963 Event - Stan Musial Day in St. Louis 1963 Death - Louis MacNeice, British Poet 1963 Event - St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Curt Simmons steals home plate 1963 Birthday - Al MacInnis, Inverness NS, NHL defenseman, Team Canada, St. Louis 1963 Birthday - Jose Oquendo, born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Jose Manuel Roberto Guillermo Contreras Oquendo, baseball player, infielder, coach, signed with New York Mets at age fifteen, member, St. Louis Cardinals, played 1987 World Series, record for fewest second baseman errors, 1990 1963 Birthday - Ken Ftach, born in St. Louis, Missouri, tennis star 1963 Birthday - Jessie Hester, NFL player for the St. Louis Rams 1962 Birthday - Mark Rypien, quarterback for the St. Louis Rams 1962 Death - Morris Louis, U.S. painter (post painterly abstraction), dies at 49 1962 Birthday - Tom Pagnozzi, born in Tucson, Arizona, catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1962 Death - Louis A van Gasteren, Dutch actor (Willem van Oranje), dies at 74 1962 Birthday - Brandel Eugene Chamblee, born in St. Louis, Missouri, PGA golfer, 1994 Honda-3rd 1962 Event - St. Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals 1962 Birthday - Jackie Joyner-Kersee, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, heptathele won Olympic gold 1988, 1992 1962 Event - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs St. Louis 1961 Birthday - Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss, journalist/travel writer 1961 Event - For 2nd time in his career, St. Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions 1961 Event - St. Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws 1961 Event - St. Louis Cardinals Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas 1961 Birthday - Jeff Parrett, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1961 Birthday - Danny Sheaffer, born in Jacksonville, Florida, catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1961 Event - St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto 1961 Event - St. Louis Cardinal Bill White hits 3 home runs and a double 1961 Event - Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St. Louis, opens 1961 Event - 15th NBA Championship: Bos Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 1 1960 Birthday - Andy Van Slyke, born in Utica, New York, professional baseball player, outfielder, played for the St. Louis Cardinals, coached first base for the Detroit Tigers 1960 Birthday - James Patrick Delsing, born in St. Louis, Missouri, PGA golfer, 1993 New England-2nd 1960 Birthday - Curt Ford, born in Jackson, Mississippi, professional baseball player, played for the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies Major League Baseball teams 1960 Birthday - Ola Ray, born in St. Louis, Missouri, playmate, Jun, 1980, actress, Thriller 1960 Event - Chicago Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0 1960 Event - 14th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3 1960 Event - NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St. Louis 1960 Death - Louis Jean Heydt, actor (Joe-Waterfront), dies at 54 1960 Birthday - Alfrederick Joyner, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, triple jumper, Gold Medal 1984 Olympics 1959 Birthday - Mike Morgan, Tulare California, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1959 Event - 1st World Series game played west of St. Louis (in LA) 1959 Event - San Francisco Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0 1959 Birthday - Heather Drew, born in St. Louis, Missouri, LPGA golfer, 1987 Henredon Classic-5th 1959 Death - Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 81 1959 Event - KPLR TV channel 11 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting 1959 Event - Bill White traded to St. Louis for pitchers Sam Jones and Don Choate 1959 Event - Tornado in St. Louis kills 19 and injures 265 1959 Birthday - Linda Blair, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Exorcist, Chained Heat, Savage St 1959 Event - Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St. Louis, to become NWA champ 1958 Birthday - Willie McGee, born in San Francisco, California, outfielder, St. Louis Cardinals, NL MVP-1985 1958 Birthday - Hal Haenel, born in St. Louis, Missouri, star yachter, Olympics-8th-1988, 92, 96 1958 Birthday - France St. Louis, ice hockey forward, Canada, 1998 Olympics 1958 Event - St. Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout 1958 Birthday - Gary Gaetti, Centralia, Illinois, infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals 1958 Birthday - Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco 1958 Event - 12th NBA Championship: St. Louis Hawks beat Bost Celtics, 4 games to 2 1958 Death - William C. Handy, U.S. conductor and composer (St. Louis Blues), dies at 84 1958 Birthday - Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco/bobsledder 1988 Olympics 1958 Birthday - Ruth Guerri, born in St. Louis, Missouri, playmate, July, 1983 1958 Birthday - Bill Dawley, born in Norwich, Connecticut, baseball player, pitcher, played Major League Baseball with the Houston Astros, Chicago Whitesox, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Oakland Athletics 1957 Death - Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71 1957 Death - Louis B. Mayer, American Director 1957 Birthday - Tony Fossas, Cuba, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1957 Death - Louis Furnberg, writer, dies at 48 1957 Event - 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St. Louis, Illinois (state record) 1957 Event - 42.0 cm rain falls on East St. Louis, Illinois, state record 1957 Birthday - John Stuper, baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1957 Event - KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting 1957 Event - 11th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3 1956 Event - Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St. Louis, to become NWA champ 1956 Death - [Emile M] Louis Madelin, French historian (Fouche), dies at 85 1956 Event - Fay Crocker wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open 1956 Birthday - Terry Kennedy, born in Euclid, Ohio, professional baseball player, catcher, played for the Baltimore Orioles, San Diego Padres, St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants 1956 Death - Louis Calhern, dies at 61 1956 Event - Biggest NBA margin of victory - Minnesota Lakers-133, St. Louis Hawks-75 1956 Death - Louis Bromfield, writer, dies at 59 1955 Event - Louise Suggs wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open 1955 Death - Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer, dies at 72 1955 Death - Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75 1955 Birthday - Louis Johnson, born in Los Angeles, California, rock bassist/vocalist, Brothers Johnson 1954 Birthday - Ozzie Smith, Mobile AL, infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals 1954 Birthday - Louis de Bernieres, British Novelist 1954 Birthday - Scott Bakula, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Quantum Leap, Gung Ho, Murphy Brown 1954 Birthday - Dennis Eckersley, born in Oakland California, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1954 Event - KETC TV channel 9 in Saint Louis, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting 1954 Event - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open 1954 Event - 117 degrees F (47 degrees C), East St. Louis, Illinois (state record) 1954 Event - KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast 1954 Birthday - Rick Honeycutt, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1954 Birthday - Mark Linn-Baker, born in St. Louis, actor, Larry Appleton-Perfect Strangers 1954 Death - Louis Zimmermann, violinist, dies at 80 1953 Event - Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St. Louis Browns 1953 Birthday - Jay Dean Haas, born in St. Louis, Missouri, PGA golfer, 1978 Andy Williams-San Diego 1953 Event - St. Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc 1953 Event - A Baltimore group purchases St. Louis Browns 1953 Birthday - Keith Hernandez, born in San Francisco, California, 1st baseman, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets 1953 Event - St. Louis Browns play last game in Sportsman's Park, losing 100th game 1953 Event - Billy Hunter is last St. Louis Browns player to homer in a game 1953 Event - AL approves St. Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles 1953 Event - Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yankees lose ending 18 game win streak and also ending St. Louis Brown 14 game losing streak 1953 Birthday - Linda Lingle, born in St. Louis, Missouri, politician, Republican, 6th Governor of Hawaii, chairman, 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City 1953 Event - Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St. Louis Browns for $2,475M 1953 Event - AL rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St. Louis Browns to Baltimore 1953 Event - Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St. Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee 1953 Death - Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 68 1952 Birthday - Michael McDonald, St. Louis, rock keyboardist/vocals, Doobie Brothers 1952 Birthday - George Louis Francis Lewis, composer 1952 Birthday - John Goodman, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Dan Conner-Roseanne, Babe 1952 Event - St. Louis Browns fire manager Rogers Hornsby 1952 Birthday - Louis Cortelezzi, rock saxophonist, Mink DeVille 1952 Event - St. Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan 1952 Birthday - Peter Westbrook, born in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. fencer, Olympic-bronze-88, 92, 96 1952 Death - Louis van Deyssel, Dutch writer (Diary of Franc Rozelaar), dies at 87 1951 Death - Louis Pierard, Belgian journalist/author (London sketches), dies at 65 1951 Event - Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden 1951 Birthday - Terry Metcalf, Seattle, NFL, CFL running back, St. Louis, Toronto 1951 Event - St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0 1951 Death - Louis Jouvet, actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise), dies at 63 1951 Event - Bill Veeck buys St. Louis Browns from Bill and Charlie DeWitt 1951 Event - Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory 1951 Birthday - Thomas D Akers, St. Louis, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-41, 49, 61, 79 1951 Birthday - Fred Berry, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Rerun-What's Happening 1951 Event - St. Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45 1951 Birthday - Benny Ayala, born in Yauco, Puerto Rico, Benigno Ayala Felix, Major League Baseball player, played outfield, first base, designated hitter for New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals 1950 Event - Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles KOs Joe Louis in New York City for heavyweight boxing title 1950 Birthday - Henry Louis Gates, American Critic 1950 Event - Boston Red Sox beat St. Louis Browns 29-4 (win by record 25 runs) 1950 Event - St. Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Washington Senators 1950 Birthday - Louis Freeh, American Lawyer 1949 Birthday - Anita Louis, U.S. singer, Soul Children, I'll Be the Other Woman 1949 Event - St. Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3 1949 Birthday - Jerry Costello, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, Representative-D-Illinois 1988 - 1949 Event - St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Brooklyn 14-1 1949 Death - Louis Davids, Simon David, cabaret artist, dies at 65 1949 Death - Louis II, Prince of Monaco, dies 1949 Event - Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ 1948 Birthday - Dan Hamburg, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Representative-D-California 1993 - 1995 1948 Event - 4 Duluth Minnesota Dukes (St. Louis Cardinals Class C farm team) die in crash 1948 Event - 15th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-2 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis 1948 Event - Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title 1948 Event - 30th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Norwood Hills CC St. Louis 1948 Birthday - T-Bone Burnett, born in St. Louis, Missouri, musician, songwriter, produced artists including BoDeans, Counting Crows, music for films 1948 Death - Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer, dies at 73 1947 Event - Joe Louis beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1947 Event - Bill Longson beats Lou Thesz in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ 1947 Birthday - Kevin Kline, St. Louis, actor, Sophie's Choice, Big Chill 1947 Birthday - Lynn Lowry, E St. Louis, Illinois, actress, Cat People, Crazies 1947 Birthday - James Pankow, born in St. Louis, Missouri, rocker, Chicago 1947 Birthday - Jose Cruz, leftfielder, St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros 1947 Birthday - Betty Thomas, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues 1947 Event - Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello 1947 Event - 47th U.S. Golf Open: Lew Worsham shoots a 282 at St. Louis CC in MO 1947 Event - Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ 1947 Birthday - Janis Schmitt, born in St. Louis, Missouri, playmate, February 1978 1947 Event - KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St. Louis, Missouri (NBC) begins broadcasting 1947 Birthday - Todd Susman, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Goodnight Beantown 1946 Event - St. Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 43rd World Series 1946 Birthday - Bob Dotson, born in St. Louis, Missouri, newscaster, Primetime Sunday 1946 Event - 1st NL playoffs, Dodgers vs Cards (St. Louis wins 2 games to 0) 1946 Event - Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 1946 Birthday - Marilyn Vos Savant, born in St. Louis, Missouri, writer/world's highest IQ, 228 1946 Event - "St. Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 113 performances 1946 Event - Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show 1946 Event - 1st TV sports spectacular - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn 1946 Event - SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St. Louis 1946 Event - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 8 for heavyweight boxing title 1946 Event - "St. Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 113 performances 1945 Event - Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army 1945 Birthday - Lee Dorman, born in St. Louis, Missouri, rock bassist, Iron Butterfly 1945 Event - Philadelphia A's Dick Fowler no-hits St. Louis Brown, 1-0 1945 Death - Pater Bleijs, Louis, resistance fighter, dies in car accident 1945 Death - Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 66 1945 Birthday - Judy Rankin, born in St. Louis, Missouri, LPGA golfer, Vare Trophy 1976-77 1945 Birthday - Michael Nader, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Peter-Gidget, Dex Dexter-Dynasty 1944 Birthday - Dick Durbin, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, Representative-D-Illinois 1983 - 1944 Event - St. Louis Cardinals beat St. Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series 1944 Event - 1st All St. Louis World Series, all games played at Sportsman's Park 1944 Event - St. Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance 1944 Event - St. Louis Browns win their only AL pennant 1944 Birthday - David Rasche, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Sledge Hammer 1944 Death - Georges Mandel, Louis Rothschild, French Foreign Minister, dies 1944 Event - "Meet Me in St. Louis" opens on Broadway 1944 Birthday - Jim Hart, Evanston, Illinois, NFL quarterback for the St. Louis Cardinals 1944 Birthday - Bruce Summerhays, born in St. Louis, Missouri, PGA golfer, Provo Open-1966, 91 93 1943 Death - Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies at 62 1943 Death - Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21 1943 Birthday - Faye Wattleton, born in St. Louis, Missouri, sociologist/president, Planned Parenthood 1943 Death - Spencer Charters, actor (Big Town Girl, St. Louis Kid), dies at 68 1943 Event - St. Louis Card Mort Cooper pitches his 2nd consecutive 1 hitter 1943 Birthday - Joy Harmon, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Cool Hand Luke 1943 Birthday - Mary Frann, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Joanna-Newhart, Days of Our Live 1942 Event - St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series 1942 Event - St. Louis Cardinals win NL pennant on last day of season 1942 Death - Louis FMF Franchet d'Esperey, French marshal (WW I), dies at 90 1942 Birthday - Robert C Springer, St. Louis, Col USMC/astronaut, STS-29, STS-38 1942 Birthday - Marsha Mason, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Blume in Love, Cinderella Liberty 1942 Event - Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (New York City) 1942 Birthday - Louis Gerstner, American Businessman 1942 Event - Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 1941 Birthday - Joe Louis Caldwell, born in Texas City, basketball player 1964 Olympic gold 1941 Death - Louis D Brandeis, 1st Jewish Supreme Court Judge (1916-39), dies at 84 1941 Event - Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title 1941 Birthday - Dale Chihuly, born in Tacoma, Washington, artist in glass, Louis Tiffany Award 1967 1941 Event - St. Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0 1941 Death - Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40 1941 Event - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title 1941 Death - Louis Chevrolet, American Celebrity 1941 Event - Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ 1941 Event - Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title 1941 Event - Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title 1941 Event - Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title 1941 Event - Joe Louis KOs Gus Dorazio in 2 for heavyweight boxing title 1941 Event - Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 1941 Birthday - Dick Gephardt, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Representative-D-Missouri 1977 - 2005 1940 Event - Joe Louis KOs Al McCoy in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in Chicago 1940 Event - St. Louis Browns Johnny Lucadello is 2nd to home run from each side of plate 1940 Event - St. Louis Brown John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings 1940 Event - 8th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-0 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis 1940 Birthday - Fontella Bass, born in St. Louis, Missouri, vocalist, Rescue Me 1940 Birthday - Billy Davis, Jr., born in St. Louis, Missouri, singer, 5th Dimension-One Less Bell 1940 Event - Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title 1940 Event - 1st night game at St. Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2) 1940 Event - Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title 1940 Death - Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Merchant of Venice), dies at 68 1940 Event - Ray Steele beats B. Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ 1940 Event - Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1939 Event - Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title 1939 Birthday - Lamonte McLemore, born in St. Louis, Missouri, rock vocalist, 5th Dimension 1939 Event - 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R P Scholz, St. Louis, Missouri 1939 Death - Louis Davids [Simon David], cabaret performer/chorus performer, dies 1939 Event - Joe Louis TKOs Tony Galent in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1939 Birthday - Lou Brock, one-time baseball stolen base leader for the St. Louis Cardinals 1939 Birthday - Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer, Reconstruction 1939 Event - SS St. Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives 1939 Event - Joe Louis KOs Jack Roper in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 1939 Birthday - Marion Marlowe, born in St. Louis, Missouri, singer, Arthur Godfrey and Friends 1939 Event - Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ 1939 Event - Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 1938 Event - W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St. Louis Post-Dispatch by radio 1938 Event - Babe Ruth applies for job of St. Louis Browns' manager 1938 Birthday - Maxine Waters, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Representative-D-California 1991 - 1938 Event - Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium 1938 Event - St. Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row 1938 Event - Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 1938 Birthday - Nathaniel Taylor, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Rollo-Sanford and Sons 1938 Death - Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66 1938 Event - Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1938 Death - Louis EJM de la Vallee-Poussin, (The Way to Nirvana), dies at 69 1938 Birthday - Louis Krebs Graham, born in Nashville, Tennessee, PGA golfer, 1975 U.S. Open 1938 Birthday - Bill Emerson, born in Saint Louis, Missouri, Representative-R-Missouri 1981 - 1996 1937 Event - Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ 1937 Death - Louis Victor Saar, composer, dies at 68 1937 Event - St. Louis Cardinals Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP 1937 Birthday - Olly Wilson, born in St. Louis, Missouri, composer, double bassist, musicologist, contemporary classical music, preeminent African American composer, studied with Robert Wykes, earned PhD from University of Iowa 1937 Event - Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1937 Event - Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs St. Louis Browns 1937 Birthday - Louis Neefs, Belgian singer 1937 Event - Joe Louis KOs James J. Braddock in 18 for heavyweight boxing title 1937 Birthday - August Busch III, CEO, Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis Cardinals 1937 Event - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive home runs against St. Louis Browns 1937 Event - Phillies trailing 8-2 to St. Louis, forfeit game 1937 Death - Louis Vierne, composer, dies at 66 1937 Event - Chicago White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St. Louis Browns, 8-0 1937 Event - St. Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia Phillies, 15-3 1937 Birthday - Bobby Scott, born in Mt. Pleasant, New York, jazz singer, producer, songwriter, instrumentalist, toured with Louis Prima, No. 13 Billboard hit 'Chain Gang' 1956 1937 Birthday - Margaret O'Brien, San Diego, actress, Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St. Louis 1937 Birthday - Grace Bumbry, St. Louis, mezzo-soprano, Venus in Tannhauser 1936 Event - AL OKs night baseball for St. Louis 1936 Death - Louis F. H. Apol, painter and etcher, dies at 86 1936 Event - St. Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes and William O DeWitt 1936 Event - 17 year old Bob Feller's 1st game, he strikes out 15 St. Louis Browns 1936 Death - Louis Bieriot, aviator, dies 1936 Event - German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis 1936 Birthday - Louis Gossett, Jr., born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Officer and Gentleman, Deep 1936 Death - Louis Glass, composer, dies at 71 1936 Event - 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St. Louis, Missouri 1935 Event - NHL's St. Louis Eagles fold 1935 Event - Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium 1935 Birthday - Louis Keith, born in Chicago, physician, expert on multiple-births 1935 Birthday - Malcolm Frager, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pianist 1934 Event - St. Louis Cardinals beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series 1934 Event - St. Louis Card clinch pennant as Dizzy Dean wins his 30th of year 1934 Event - St. Louis Card Paul Dean no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 3-0 1934 Event - St. Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1 1934 Event - St. Louis Cardinals defeat Cincinnati Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean and Tony Freitos go the distant 1934 Death - Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79 1933 Birthday - Louis W. Sullivan, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1989 - 1993 1933 Birthday - Kathleen Nolan, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Real McCoys, Janie, Broadside 1933 Birthday - Bert Convy, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw 1933 Birthday - Bert Convy, born in St. Louis, Missouri, game show host, Win, Lose or Draw 1933 Event - Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs St. Louis Cardinals 1933 Birthday - Louis Farrakhan, minister, black islam nation, million man march 1933 Birthday - Louis Rukeyser, financial whiz, Wall Street Week 1933 Birthday - Ron Townson, born in St. Louis, Missouri, rock vocalist, 5th Dimension-Up Up and Away 1932 Birthday - Robert Pettit, NBA star, St. Louis Bombers/1959 MVP 1932 Birthday - Louis Malle, France, director, Atlantic City, Black Moon, Viva Maria 1932 Birthday - Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter 1932 Birthday - Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger 1932 Birthday - Lincoln Kilpatrick, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, BJ-Leslie Uggams Show 1932 Birthday - Louis Woodard Jones, New Rochelle, New York, 4X400m relayer, Gold Medal 1956 Olympics 1931 Birthday - Whitey Herzog, baseball manager for the St. Louis Cardinals 1931 Event - St. Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series 1931 Birthday - Cardiss Collins, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Representative-D-Illinois 1973 - 1997 1931 Event - St. Louis Cardinals repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies 1931 Event - 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St. Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles, 11 in 1st game and 21 in 2nd game for 32 1931 Birthday - Louis W. Ballard, born in Cherokee, Quapaw, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee' 1931 Birthday - Bill Virdon, 2nd baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals/mgr, New York Yankees 1931 Event - Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo 1931 Birthday - Bill Clay, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Representative-D-Missouri 1969 - 2001 1931 Event - Cleveland Indian Wes Ferrell no-hits St. Louis Browns, 9-0 1930 Birthday - Doris Roberts, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Angie, Maggie, Emmy 1983 1930 Event - Philadelphia A's beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series 1930 Event - World Series opens at Phila's Shibe Park, Philadelphia A's beat St. Louis 5-2 1930 Event - White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St. Louis Browns 1930 Event - New York Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 home runs to beat St. Louis Browns, 7-6 1930 Birthday - Earl Weaver, born in St. Louis, Missouri, manager, Baltimore Orioles 1968-82, 85-86 1930 Event - St. Louis Cardinals are 12 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant 1930 Event - 1st U.S. indoor glider flight, St. Louis Terminal Building 1929 Birthday - Moses Gunn, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft 1929 Birthday - Louis Myers, blues guitarist /harmonica player 1929 Birthday - Thomas Eagleton, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Senator-D-Missouri 1968 - 1986 and Democratic Vice Presidential candidate 1972 1929 Event - St. Louis has 2, 10 run innings and beats Phillies 28-6 1929 Event - 55th Preakness: Louis Schaefer aboard Dr. Freeland wins in 2:01.6 1928 Event - Louis Armstrong makes 78 recording of "West End blues" 1928 Event - 25th World Series begins, New York Yankees vs St. Louis Cardinals 1928 Birthday - Clay Felker, St. Louis, journalist, New York Herald Tribune, Esquire 1928 Birthday - Charles Louis Strouse, composer 1928 Birthday - Maya Angelou, born in St. Louis, poet and actress, Nyo-Roots 1928 Birthday - Michael Harrington, St. Louis, socialist/author, Fragments of Century 1927 Birthday - Robert Guillaume, Williams, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Benson, Soap 1927 Event - Tornado strikes St. Louis Missouri, 85 die 1927 Birthday - Raymond Leppard, born in London, England, conductor, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra 1927 Event - Lindbergh begins New York flight (Spirit of St. Louis) 1927 Event - Louis B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1927 Event - Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn) 1927 Event - Construction of Spirit of St. Louis is completed 1926 Death - Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch actor and director (Krates), dies at 72 1926 Birthday - Chuck Berry, St. Louis, rocker, Roll over Beethoven 1926 Event - St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series 1926 Event - St. Louis Cardinals beat Phillies 23-3 1926 Birthday - Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor, 1958-62 St. Louis Symph 1926 Birthday - Louis Blom-Cooper QC/press arbiter 1926 Birthday - Joe Garagiola, born in St. Louis, Missouri, sportscaster/host, Today Show 1926 Event - St. Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from New York Yankees 1925 Death - Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/literary (Assault!), dies at 44 1925 Event - Louis Armstrong records 1st of Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings 1925 Birthday - Louis Cohen, physicist 1925 Birthday - Doris J Hart, born in St. Louis, Missouri, tennis player, Wimbledon 1951 1925 Birthday - Eddie Gaedel, 3'7" St. Louis Browns pinch-hitter, he walked 1925 Birthday - William Louis Dickinson, born in Opelika, Alabama, Representative-R-Alabama 1965 - 1993 1925 Death - Pierre Louys, PF Louis, French writer (Aphrodite), dies 1925 Death - Louis F J Bouwmeester, actor (Shakespeare), dies 1925 Birthday - Louis Stokes, born in Cleveland, Ohio, Representative-D-Ohio 1969 - 1999 1924 Birthday - Louis Teicher, pianist, Ferante and Teicher-Exodus 1924 Birthday - Phyllis Schlafly, St. Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president 1924 Birthday - Louis Bellson, Rock Falls, Illinois, orchestra leader, Pearl Bailey Show 1924 Event - St. Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 1924 Event - Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer merged to form MGM 1924 Death - Louis H Sullivan, architect (Wainwright building St. Louis), dies at 67 1924 Death - Louis Sullivan, American Architect 1923 Birthday - Louis Lane, born in Eagle Pass, Texas, conductor, Oere Orchestra 1968 - 1973 1923 Birthday - Louis Gottlieb, musician 1923 Birthday - Rhonda Fleming, Marilyn Louis, born in Hollywood, California, actress, Spellbound 1923 Death - Louis M A Couperus, poet and writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60 1923 Death - Louis Ganne, composer, dies at 61 1923 Event - 10 home runs hit in Phillies 20-14 victory over St. Louis Cardinals 1923 Birthday - Louis Simpson, Jamaican and US poet, Good News of Death 1923 Birthday - Al "Red" Schoendienst, baseball manager/2nd baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals 1922 Birthday - Redd Foxx, born in St. Louis, Missouri, comedian, Sandford and Son, Redd Foxx Show 1922 Birthday - Louis Benjamin, showman 1922 Event - Giants beat St. Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant 1922 Death - Louis Coerne, composer, dies at 52 1922 Event - St. Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0 1922 Death - Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Eu/Brazil, dies at 80 1922 Birthday - Shelley Winters, Schrift, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Poseidon Adventure 1922 Event - Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St. Louis teams are on top 1922 Birthday - Jean-Pierre Rampal, Louis, Marseilles France, flutist 1922 Event - St. Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times 1922 Event - St. Louis gets record 10 hits in a row and beats Phillies 14-8 1922 Event - WEW-AM in Saint Louis Missouri begins radio transmissions 1922 Death - Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian, dies at 86 1922 Event - KSD-AM in Saint Louis Missouri begins radio transmissions 1922 Birthday - Jean-Pierre [Louis] Rampal, Marseilles France, flautist 1921 Death - Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer, dies at 43 1920 Birthday - Virginia Mayo, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Out of the Blue, White Heat 1920 Birthday - Stan Musial, outfielder, St. Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ 1920 Birthday - Louis Alfred Mennini, composer 1920 Birthday - Louis Pauwels, writer/editor 1920 Birthday - Louis Barron, composer 1919 Death - Jean Louis Nicode, composer, dies at 66 1919 Death - Louis Botha, South African Boer leader, dies 1919 Death - Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies 1919 Birthday - Rusty Gill, born in St. Louis, Missouri, singer, Polka Time 1919 Birthday - Louis Jourdan, Marseilles France, actor, Gigi, Can-Can, Madame Bovary 1919 Birthday - Louis Sen A Kaw, Surinam dam builder 1919 Event - Louis Hirsch and Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in New York City 1919 Birthday - Louis Heren, journalist and writer, China's Three Thousand Years 1918 Birthday - Louis Althusser, French philosopher, For Marx, Strangled His Wife 1918 Birthday - Louis W. "Louis" Stotijn, bassoonist/conductor, Residence Orchestra 1918 Birthday - Louis Applebaum, composer 1917 Birthday - Louis Salvador Palange, composer 1917 Birthday - Louis Auchincloss, Lawrence, New York, lawyer/novelist, Watchfires 1917 Event - Riots in East St. Louis Mo 1917 Event - Race riots in East St. Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed) 1917 Event - Race riot in East St. Louis Illinois, 1 black killed 1917 Event - St. Louis Brown Bob Groom no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0 1917 Event - St. Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0 1917 Birthday - Louis G "Lo" van Hensbergen, actor/author, Amsterdam Affair 1917 Event - Chicago White Sox Ed Cicotte no-hits St. Louis Browns, 11-0 1917 Birthday - M Marie Widlow, born in St. Louis, Missouri, softball pitcher, Hall of Fame 1957 1917 Event - 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St. Louis 1917 Birthday - Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic and poet 1916 Birthday - Betty Grable, St. Louis, great legs/actress, Gay Divorcee 1916 Event - Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St. Louis Browns, 4-0 1916 Birthday - Ben Weber, born in St. Louis, Missouri, composer, Thorne Music Award-1965 1916 Event - St. Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 inns in a 0-0 tie vs Boston 1916 Birthday - Yehudi Menuhin, born in New York City, New York, Lord Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, violinist, conductor, writer, studied under George Enescu, Louis Persinger, Adolf Busch 1916 Birthday - Louis Toebosch, composer 1916 Birthday - Bill Doggett, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, organist, musician, American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist, hit Honky Tonk, recorded with King Records, sold four million copies, arranged music for Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald 1916 Event - 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson 1915 Event - Louis Kaufmans "Unchastened Woman," premieres in New York City 1915 Birthday - William E. Vaughan, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms 1915 Event - Boston Braves trounce St. Louis Cardinals 20-1 1915 Event - Boston Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals 20-1 1915 Event - St. Louis Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago (Federal League), 3-0 1915 Event - St. Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Brooklyn rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, and Card runner scores 1915 Death - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer, dies at 53 1915 Event - Pittsburghs' Frank Allen no-hits St. Louis (Federal League), 2-0 1915 Birthday - Pete Gray, one-armed outfielder, St. Louis Browns 1914 Birthday - Johnny Johnston, born in St. Louis, Missouri, singer, Make that Spare 1914 Death - Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/Flemish People Party, dies 1914 Event - T Handy publishes "St. Louis Blues" 1914 Birthday - Louis De Funes, born in Courbevoie, France, actor, I Tartassati, Fantomas 1914 Birthday - Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion, 1937 - 1949 1914 Birthday - Sid Weiss, born in America, musician, jazz double-bassist, played clarinet, violin, tuba as a child, began playing bass as a teenager, worked with Louis Prima, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman 1914 Birthday - Jacob B. Bakema, urban developer, St. Louis Missouri 1914 Birthday - Louis Osman, architect/artist/goldsmith 1914 Birthday - Louis Osman, artist architect goldsmith medallist/craftsman 1913 Event - St. Louis Browns manager George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League 1913 Birthday - Barney Phillips, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Dragnet, Felony Squad 1913 Birthday - Grandpa [Louis M] Jones, Niagra, Kentucky, country musician, Hee-Haw 1913 Birthday - Marvin Miller, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Space Patrol, Millionaire 1913 Event - Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim 1912 Birthday - Louis Prima, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, singer, That Old Black Magic 1912 Birthday - Morris Louis, U.S. painter, post abstract 1912 Death - Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Zeesterre), dies at 83 1912 Event - St. Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1 1912 Birthday - Louis J N Gerardin, Toto, French bicyclist/trainer, champ 1930 1912 Event - Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St. Louis Browns, 7-0 1912 Death - Louis Antoine, Belgian miner/sect leader, dies at about 65 1912 Birthday - Mary Wickes, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Dennis the Menace, Julia, Doc 1912 Birthday - Louis Boon, born in Aalst, Belgium, born Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon, writer, journalist, novelist, wrote historical novels, modernist work Vergeten straat 1911 Birthday - Louis M de Guiringaud, French foreign minister, 1976-78 1911 Death - Louis Pincoffs, businessman/Dutch politician 1st-Chamber, dies 1911 Event - Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in New York City 1911 Event - Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St. Louis Browns, 5-0 1911 Event - Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St. Louis Browns, 5-0 1911 Event - U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri closes 1911 Birthday - Louis Wain, agricultural scientist 1911 Birthday - Vincent Price, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, House on Haunted Hill, Fly, Laura 1911 Birthday - Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, HOF baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1910 Birthday - Louis Levy, Jr., music publisher 1910 Event - Chicago Cub King Cole no-hits St. Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game 1910 Birthday - Julien Gracq, Louis Poirier, French writer, Andre Breton 1910 Death - Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer, dies at 70 1910 Event - Chicago's Comiskey Park opens - St. Louis Browns beat White Sox 2-0 1909 Birthday - Louis van Lint, Belgian painter 1909 Birthday - Josephine Hutchinson, born in Seattle, Washington, actress, Story of Louis Pasteur 1909 Birthday - Jean Berger, born in Hamm, Germany, composer, pianist, professor, studied at Heidelberg, Vienna universities, studied with Paris' Louis Aubert, taught at Middlebury College, University of Colorado at Boulder, among others 1909 Event - France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel 1909 Birthday - Louis Furnberg, writer 1909 Birthday - Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, politician 1909 Birthday - Louis Hayward, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, actor, Lone Wolf, Survivors 1908 Birthday - Louis JHCA de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet, Black Banners 1908 Death - Louis Varney, composer, dies at 64 1908 Event - St. Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn 1908 Event - St. Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia Athletics 1908 Birthday - Louis Jordan, born in Arkansas, alto saxman, Caldonia 1908 Birthday - Frank Sully, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Along Came Jones, Phantom Thief 1908 Birthday - Louis Hostin, born in France, Light Heavyweight, Gold Medals 1932, 1936 Olympics 1908 Birthday - Louis D L'Amour, Jamestown ND, author, Hondo, Jubal Sackett 1908 Birthday - Louis L'Amour, American Author 1908 Birthday - Louis Gaste, songwriter 1908 Event - Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to St. Louis Browns for $5,000 1907 Birthday - Jane Froman, born in St. Louis, Missouri, singer, Jane Froman's USA Canteen 1907 Birthday - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, prince 1907 Birthday - Louis MacNeice, British Poet 1907 Death - Pieter Louis Tak, writer (Chronicle), dies at 58 1907 Event - St. Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn 1907 Birthday - William Dollar, St. Louis, ballet dancer/choreographer 1907 Birthday - Mary Treen, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Emily-Willy 1907 Birthday - Louis Saguer, composer 1907 Event - General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal 1906 Birthday - Louis Borell, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, actor, Over the Moon, Queer Cargo 1906 Event - St. Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game 1906 Event - Bkln Dodger Mal Eason no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 2-0 1906 Birthday - Louis RJ Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor, Zoelen 1906 Birthday - Louis Simmonds, bookseller 1906 Event - Louis H. Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars 1906 Birthday - Kent Taylor, Louis Weiss, Iowa, actor, Boston Blackie, Rough Riders 1906 Birthday - Pierre [Louis] Boileau, born in Paris, France, novelist, Vertigo 1905 Birthday - Frank Faylen, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Herbert Gillis-Dobie Gillis 1905 Event - Philadelphia A's Rube Waddell no-hits St. Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings 1905 Event - Philadelphia Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St. Louis Browns, 6-0 1905 Birthday - Louis Philip Kentner, composer 1905 Birthday - Jan Louis Guillaume "Yvan" Doornik, Netherlands resistance fighter in France 1905 Birthday - Louis Jean Heydt, born in Montclair, New Jersey, actor, Joe-Waterfront 1905 Birthday - Charles Melvin Price, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, Representative-D-Illinois 1945 - 1988 1904 Event - 3rd Olympic games close in St. Louis 1904 Birthday - Louis Neel, French physicist, Nobel 1970 1904 Birthday - Laura Laplante, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Cat and Canary 1904 Event - St. Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints 1904 Birthday - Louis de Meester, composer 1904 Event - St. Louis Olympics closes 1904 Event - 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis 1904 Event - 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St. Louis 1904 Death - Vincent Tancred, cricket (Bernard and Louis bro, Test for S A), suicide 1904 Event - 1st Olympics in U.S. are held (St. Louis) 1904 Event - Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St. Louis 1904 Birthday - Edward Chodorov, playwright/director, Story of Louis Pasteur 1904 Birthday - Albert Kuyle, Louis Kuitenbrouwer, Dutch writer, Jesus' Robe 1903 Birthday - Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist 1903 Event - New York Giant Red Ames no-hits St. Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game 1903 Birthday - Wilton Graff, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn 1903 Birthday - Louis Leakey, anthropologist, 1964 Richard Hooper Medal 1903 Birthday - Louis Krasner, violinist 1902 Birthday - Leland Hayward, U.S. producer, Spirit of St. Louis 1902 Event - Orioles forfeit to St. Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL 1902 Birthday - Louis J. M. Beel, premier of Netherland, 1946-48, 58-59 1902 Birthday - Louis Nizer, lawyer, defended blacklisted stars in '50s, Catspaw 1901 Event - Milwaukee is dropped from the AL and replaced by St. Louis Browns 1901 Birthday - Louis Armstrong, American Musician 1901 Event - New York Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St. Louis, 5-0 1901 Birthday - Louis Kahn, American Architect 1900 Event - Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut 1900 Birthday - Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, jazz musician, Hello Dolly 1900 Birthday - Lord Louis Mountbatten, of Burma, royal relative/earl/baron/admiral 1899 Birthday - Louis Cheslock, composer 1899 Birthday - Helen Traubel, born in St. Louis, Missouri, soprano, Sieglinde in Walkure, Nightclubs 1898 Death - Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78 1898 Birthday - Cy Kendall, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Mysteries of Chinatown 1897 Birthday - Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, France, anti-Semite/nazi collaborator 1897 Birthday - Jules Buffano, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pianist, Jimmy Durante Show 1897 Birthday - Louis Aragon, French poet and writer, Feu de joie, Lesson poetes 1897 Birthday - Morris Carnovsky, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Dead Reckoning 1897 Event - Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot 1896 Birthday - Louis Bromfield, Mansfield Ohio, writer, Early Autumn, Pulitzer-1926 1896 Event - Louis Napoleon Parker's "Rosemary," premieres in New York City 1896 Death - Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81 1896 Event - Tornado hit St. Louis, killing 255 and leaving thousands homeless 1896 Birthday - Rogers Hornsby, 2nd baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals 1896 Event - Spiridon Louis wins 1st Olympic marathon (2:58:50) 1896 Death - Charles Louis Ambrose Thomas, French composer (Mignon), dies at 84 1895 Birthday - Louis Lumiere, twin brothers who opened 1st commercial cinema 1895 Birthday - Louis Mumford, cultural historian/city planner/writer 1895 Birthday - Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian 1895 Death - Louis Pasteur, scientist (Pasteurization) dies 1895 Death - Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist (Pasteurization), dies at 72 1895 Event - Auguste and Louis Lumiere show film for scientists 1895 Birthday - Louis Finkelstein, U.S. historian/theologist, Pharizees 1895 Event - Auguste and Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience 1895 Birthday - Louis Calhern, New York City, actor, Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle 1895 Death - Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer, dies at 45 1894 Death - Robert Louis Stevenson, English writer (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), dies at 45 1893 Birthday - Louis Freeman, band leader 1892 Birthday - Louis Fourestier, composer 1892 Birthday - Louis van Tulder, Dutch tenor, From Office Stool to High C 1892 Birthday - Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist, studied electrons 1892 Event - Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St. Louis Mo 1891 Event - Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses 1891 Death - Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator, dies at 78 1891 Death - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer, dies at 67 1891 Birthday - Wallace Reid, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor/dir/screenwriter, Every Inch a Man 1891 Birthday - Louis A. Johnson, American Public Servant 1888 Birthday - T. S. Eliot, St. Louis poet/dramatist/critic, Waste Land-Nobel 1948 1888 Birthday - Louis Zimmer, Flemish clock maker, Jubelklok/Wonder Clock 1888 Birthday - Louis Durey, composer 1887 Birthday - Louis Jouvet, Crozon France, actor, Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise 1887 Death - Louis Gallait, Belgian painter (Egmont and Receiver), dies at 77 1887 Birthday - Marianne Moore, St. Louis, poet, Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems 1887 Birthday - Louis A van Gasteren, Dutch actor and director, Willem van Oranje 1887 Event - Detroit (NL) beats St. Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in World Series 1886 Event - St. Louis Browns win World Championship by beating Chicago 4-3 in 10 1886 Birthday - Louis Hazeltine, inventor, neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible 1886 Birthday - Louis Pierard, Belgian journalist and writer, Great Germany 1885 Death - Louis Riel, French rebel who fought against Canada, executed at 41 1885 Birthday - Louis Untermeyer, New York City, poet and critic, Immortal Poems, Story Poems 1885 Event - Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine 1885 Birthday - Louis B Mayer, Minsk Russia, motion-picture executive, MGM 1885 Birthday - Georges Mandel, Louis Rothschild, French Foreign minister, -1940 1885 Event - Canadian Meti insurgent Louis Reil captured, Saskatchewan 1885 Event - Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Sask 1885 Event - Louis Riel returns to Canada, proclaims provisional government, Sask 1884 Event - John B Meyenberg of St. Louis patents evaporated milk 1884 Death - Louis Lacombe, composer, dies at 65 1884 Death - Louis Schubert, composer, dies at 56 1884 Birthday - Louis Gruenberg, near Brest Litovsk Poland, composer, Daniel Jazz 1884 Death - Louis Brassin, composer, dies at 43 1884 Birthday - Louis de Bree, Louis C Davids, actor, Bluejackets 1884 Birthday - Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician and resistance fighter 1884 Birthday - Albert Louis Wolff, composer 1884 Birthday - Louis Horst, composer 1883 Birthday - Louis Davids, Simon David, Dutch cabaret performer/chorus performer 1883 Birthday - [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor, Potasch and Perlemoer 1883 Death - Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer, dies at 67 1883 Death - Louis Veuillot, French Journalist 1883 Event - Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen 1882 Death - Louis Blanc, French Politician 1882 Birthday - Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer 1882 Birthday - Louis B. Mayer, American Director 1882 Death - Louis Kufferath, composer, dies at 70 1882 Birthday - Louis St. Laurent, Compton Quebec, L, 12th Canadian PM, 1948-57 1881 Birthday - Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist 1881 Event - U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri opens 1881 Birthday - Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/writer, Assault! 1881 Event - U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri authorized 1880 Birthday - Henry Louis Mencken, U.S. essayist/critic, American Mercury 1880 Birthday - Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer 1879 Birthday - King Baggot I, born in St. Louis, Missouri, director, Tumbleweeds 1879 Death - E Louis JJ Napoleon Bonaparte, crown prince, dies in battle at 23 1878 Birthday - Louis Chevrolet, American Celebrity 1878 Event - Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St. Louis Dispatch" 1878 Event - Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500 1878 Birthday - Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP, CPN 1877 Birthday - Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer 1877 Birthday - Stanner E V Taylor, born in St. Louis, Missouri, director and writer, Lucky Jim, Ramona 1877 Birthday - Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer 1877 Death - Louis Adolphe Thiers, French Statesman 1877 Birthday - Louis Francois-Marie Aubert, French composer, Habanera 1876 Event - Baseball's 1st no-hitter, St. Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford 1876 Event - Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis 1875 Death - Francis Preston Blair, Jr., famed St. Louis lawyer, dies at 54 1875 Event - 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St. Louis 0 1875 Death - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer, dies at 84 1874 Birthday - Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer 1873 Death - J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist, dies 1873 Death - Louis Agassiz, Swiss Scientist 1873 Birthday - W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, Alabama, jazz star, St. Louis Blues 1873 Event - 1st kindergarten public school opens in St. Louis 1873 Birthday - Louis Zimmermann, violinist and 1st concert master of Concert building 1873 Death - Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer, dies at 52 1872 Death - Charles XV Louis E, king of Sweden/Norway (1859-72), dies 1872 Birthday - George Louis Beer, historian, authority on British colonies 1872 Birthday - Louis Bleriot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel 1871 Birthday - Louis de Vries, Dutch actor, Ghetto 1871 Birthday - Vernon Louis Parrington, author, Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928 1871 Birthday - [Emile M] Louis Madelin, French historian, French revolutionary 1871 Death - Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies 1871 Birthday - Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher, Intelligence of Children 1870 Birthday - Francis Louis Casadesus, French violinist, composer and conductor 1870 Birthday - Louis Vierne, composer 1870 Birthday - Louis Coerne, composer 1870 Birthday - Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder, Flemish People's Party 1869 Death - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, dies at 40 1869 Birthday - Louis Raemakers, Dutch draftsman/painter 1869 Death - Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65 1869 Birthday - Louis EJM de la Vallee-Poussin, Belgian indologist 1868 Birthday - Louis Victor Saar, composer 1868 Event - Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process 1868 Death - [Charles] Louis I [Augustus], King of Bavaria (L Montez), dies at 81 1866 Death - Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies 1866 Death - Louis Clapisson, composer, dies at 57 1864 Birthday - Louis Lumiere, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895 1864 Birthday - Louis Van Deyssel, writer, Small Republic, One Love 1864 Death - Louis Hachette, French publisher, dies at 64 1864 Birthday - Louis Glass, composer 1864 Death - Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer, dies 52 1864 Event - Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built) 1863 Death - Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies at 51 1863 Birthday - Louis M. A. Couperus, Dutch poet and writer, Eline Vere 1862 Birthday - Louis Botha, Greytown South Africa, 1st Prime Minister of South Africa, 1910 - 1919 1862 Death - Louis Powell Harvey, U.S. governor of Wisconsin, drowns 1862 Birthday - Louis Ganne, composer 1862 Birthday - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer 1861 Event - Union troops march on state militia in St. Louis, Missouri 1861 Death - Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer, dies at 58 1861 Death - Louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal affairs, dies at 74 1860 Death - Louis Hersent, painter, dies 1859 Death - Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82 1859 Death - Ludwig "Louis" Spohr, German violinist and composer (Faust), dies at 75 1859 Death - Louis (Ludwig) Spohr, composer (Faust), dies at 75 1859 Event - Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St. Louis 1856 Birthday - Louis D. Brandeis, Massachusetts, 68th Supreme Court Justice, 1916-39 1856 Birthday - Louis Henri Sullivan, born in Boston, Massachusetts, father of modern U.S. architecture 1856 Birthday - Louis Sullivan, American Architect 1856 Birthday - E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince 1854 Birthday - Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense, 1916-17 1854 Birthday - Louis Mountbatten, Admiral, WW I 1854 Birthday - Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director, Lost and Found, Silvia Silombra 1854 Birthday - Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director, Youth 1853 Death - Andre Georges Louis Onslow, composer, dies at 69 1853 Birthday - Jean Louis Nicode, composer 1853 Death - Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer, dies 1852 Event - 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor 1852 Birthday - Louis FMF Franchet d'Esperey, Desperate Frankey, French marshal, WW I 1851 Birthday - Melvil[le Louis K] Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries 1851 Event - President Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France 1851 Event - Louis Napoleon takes power in France 1851 Death - Marie-Therese-Charlotte, d of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, dies at 72 1851 Death - Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, French Artist 1850 Birthday - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, author, Treasure Island 1850 Birthday - Louis F. H. Apol, painter and etcher 1850 Death - Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70 1849 Death - Louis count of Barrthyanyi, premier of Hungary, dies at 43 1849 Birthday - Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer 1849 Event - Fire destroy Centrum in St. Louis Missouri 1848 Death - Louis Massonneau, composer, dies at 82 1848 Birthday - Pieter Louis Tak, literary, The Chronicle 1848 Event - King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez 1848 Birthday - Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker, stained glass windows 1847 Birthday - Joseph Pulitzer, born in Hungary, publisher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York World 1846 Death - Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronoom, dies at 90 1846 Death - Louis Bonaparte, French Royalty 1846 Death - Louis Napoleon, French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67 1845 Birthday - Louis III, last king of Bavaria, 1913-18 1844 Birthday - Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis 1844 Birthday - Louis Varney, composer 1843 Birthday - Louis Renault, French lawyer 1842 Birthday - Louis F J Bouwmeester, Dutch actor, Shakespeare 1842 Birthday - Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Brazil, 1870-89 1841 Death - Charles Louis W J van Keverberg, Dutch government official, dies at 73 1840 Birthday - Louis Brassin, composer 1840 Birthday - Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer 1839 Event - Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris 1839 Event - 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) 1836 Event - Louis Napoleon banished to America 1836 Event - HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius 1835 Death - Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48 1835 Birthday - Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian 1833 Birthday - Louis Douglass Watkins, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Death - Louis H J Conde, French prince, commits suicide at 74 1830 Event - Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe 1829 Birthday - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized U.S. pianist 1829 Death - Auguste Chouteau, St. Louis co-founder, dies 1829 Birthday - Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author, Blood to Bridge 1828 Birthday - Louis Schubert, composer 1826 Birthday - Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway, 1859 - 1872, poet 1824 Birthday - Augustus Louis Chetlain, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Death - Louis XVIII SX, earl of Province/king of France (1814-24), dies 1824 Death - Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer, dies at 62 1824 Birthday - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer 1823 Death - Louis Nicholas Davout, French Field Marshal, dies at 53 1822 Birthday - Louis Pasteur, Dole France, bacteriologist, pasturization 1821 Event - Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII 1820 Birthday - Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer 1820 Birthday - Louis Powell Harvey, Governor, Union 1820 Birthday - James Buchanan Eads, U.S., engineer/inventor, Eads Bridge-St. Louis 1820 Birthday - Louis Herbert, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Birthday - Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer 1818 Birthday - Louis Lacombe, composer 1818 Event - Cincinnati Reds Hod Eller no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 6-0 1816 Birthday - Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Confederate Army 1815 Birthday - Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer 1815 Event - King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France 1814 Birthday - Louis CPR van Orleans, French duke of Nemours 1814 Event - King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England 1813 Birthday - Louis Veuillot, French Journalist 1813 Birthday - Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator 1812 Birthday - Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday - Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer 1811 Birthday - Louis Kufferath, composer 1811 Birthday - Louis Blanc, French Politician 1811 Death - Ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70 1810 Event - Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands 1810 Birthday - Louis Gallait, historical painter 1809 Event - Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system 1809 Birthday - Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer, reading system for blind 1808 Birthday - Louis Clapisson, composer 1808 Event - Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain 1808 Event - Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace 1808 Event - Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law 1807 Birthday - Louis Agassiz, born in Switzerland, naturalist, geologist, and teacher 1807 Death - Louis Francois Chambray, composer, dies at 69 1806 Event - Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis from Pacific Northwest 1806 Death - Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia Christian, composer, dies at 33 1806 Birthday - Louis count of Barrthyanyi, premier of Hungary 1805 Birthday - Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1804 Event - Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis for Pacific Coast 1804 Event - Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII 1803 Death - Louis R E prince de Rohan-Guemene, archbisp of Straatsburg, dies at 68 1802 Birthday - Louis Kossuth, Hungary, President of Hungary, 1849 1802 Birthday - Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer 1801 Death - Louis C count Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian diplomat, dies at 73 1800 Birthday - Louis Hachette, French publisher, Librairie Hachette 1800 Death - Louis J M Daubenton, France, zoologist, dies at 83 1797 Birthday - Louis Adolphe Thiers, French Statesman 1795 Death - Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95), dies at 10 1793 Death - Louis earl of Bylandt, Dutch admiral, dies at about 75 1793 Death - Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, beheaded 1793 Death - Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France, dies at 80 1793 Death - Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies 1793 Death - Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38 1793 Event - French King Louis XVI sentenced to death 1792 Event - France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason 1792 Event - Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI 1792 Event - King Louis XVI fires French government 1791 Event - France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution 1791 Event - Fleeing French King Louis XVI and family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne 1791 Event - King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution 1790 Birthday - Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine, Macon France, writer, Rene 1790 Birthday - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer 1788 Event - King Louis XVI calls French States and Generals together 1788 Death - Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92 1788 Death - Louis E van Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Austrian duke, dies at 69 1787 Birthday - Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, French Artist 1787 Birthday - Louis Angely, German, comedy writer, Sieben Madchen in Uniform 1786 Birthday - [Charles] Louis I, Augustus, King of Bavaria, Lola Montez 1786 Birthday - Louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister 1785 Birthday - Louis XVII Charles, king of France, 1793-95 1785 Birthday - Claude Louis Marie Navier 1784 Birthday - Louis [Ludwig] Spohr, born in Germany, violin virtuoso and composer, Faust 1782 Birthday - Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Phillip of Austria 1779 Birthday - Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer 1778 Birthday - Marie-Therese-Charlotte, daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette 1778 Birthday - Louis Napoleon, French king of Netherlands, 1806-10 1778 Birthday - Louis Bonaparte, French Royalty 1777 Birthday - Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker 1774 Death - Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV, dies at 80 1774 Event - Louis XVI ascends to throne of France 1774 Death - Louis XV, king of France (1715-74), dies at 64 1773 Death - Luigi Vanvitelli, Louis van Wittel, Italian architect, dies at 72 1772 Birthday - Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer 1772 Death - Louis Tocque, French painter, dies at 75 1771 Death - Augusta von Saxen-Gotha, German prince Frederick Louis of Wales, dies 1770 Event - Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France 1770 Birthday - Louis Nicholas Davout, French Field Marshal, defeated Prussians 1769 Event - Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress 1768 Birthday - Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant 1766 Birthday - Louis Massonneau, composer 1764 Birthday - Elisabeth PMH, princess of France/son of king Louis XVI 1764 Event - St. Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue 1761 Birthday - Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer and Brigadier General 1759 Death - James Wolfe and the French commander Louis Montcalm, killed 1759 Death - Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47 1757 Event - Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens 1756 Birthday - Louis H J Conde, French prince 1755 Birthday - Louis XVIII, 1st post-revolutionary king of France, 1814-24 1755 Birthday - Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronomist 1754 Birthday - Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France, 1774-93, eventually guillotined 1753 Event - King Louis XV disbands French parliament 1753 Event - French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle 1751 Death - Frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies 1749 Birthday - Louis Joseph Claude Saint-Amans, composer 1744 Event - French King Louis XV declares war on England 1743 Birthday - Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, last mistress of Louis XV 1740 Death - Mauritius Louis II earl of Nassau, Lieutenant-general (12 children), dies 1740 Birthday - Ernest Louis Muller, composer 1737 Birthday - Louis Francois Chambray, composer 1734 Birthday - Louis RE prince de Rohan-Guemene, French archbishop of Straatsburg 1734 Death - Louis Lully, composer, dies at 69 1732 Event - 1st U.S. professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Philadelphia 1732 Death - Louis Marchand, composer, dies at 63 1728 Birthday - Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer 1728 Birthday - Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium 1725 Event - French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary Lesczynski 1721 Birthday - Madame De Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th 1718 Birthday - Louis E of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Thick Duke, Austrian duke 1717 Death - Louis Le Quointe, composer, dies at 64 1716 Birthday - Louis J M Daubenton, French zoologist 1715 Death - Louis XIV, the great, king of France (1643-1715), dies at 76 1714 Death - Duke of Berry, French King Louis XIV's grandson, dies 1713 Birthday - Louis A A Count d'Affry, French general/ambassador to Netherland 1713 Birthday - Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France 1713 Birthday - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere 1712 Birthday - Louis Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Veran, France, general 1712 Death - Duke of Bourgondie, French king Louis XIV's grandson, dies 1710 Death - Francoise de la Baume Le Blanc, mistress of king Louis XIV, dies at 65 1710 Birthday - Louis XV the Well-Beloved, Versailles, King of France, 1715-74 1707 Death - Louis Willem I, count of Baden-Baden, dies 1696 Birthday - Louis Tocque, French painter 1696 Event - French king Louis XIV and Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace 1696 Birthday - Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu, French marshal 1694 Birthday - Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV 1690 Event - English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade 1690 Event - French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland 1689 Event - French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain 1688 Event - French king Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands 1686 Death - Louis II Conde, duke of Bourbon, dies at 65 1685 Event - French king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes 1685 Event - Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism 1684 Event - French king Louis XIV marries Madame Maintenon 1683 Event - King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America 1682 Event - Louis XIV and his court inaugurates Paris Observatory 1681 Event - French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Staatsburg 1678 Event - King Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty 1676 Event - Kings Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty 1674 Event - 1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Conde vs Willem III) 1673 Event - Peace of Vossem: French King Louis XIV and Frederik Willem of Brandenburg 1673 Event - Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi 1672 Event - French troops under king Louis XIV occupy Utrecht 1671 Event - French King Louis XIV and RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty 1670 Event - English king Charles II and French king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty 1669 Birthday - Louis Marchand, composer 1669 Event - French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion 1668 Event - King Louis XIV and Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain 1664 Birthday - Louis Lully, composer 1664 Event - King Louis XIV and Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant 1663 Event - King Louis XIV affirms covenant with Ronstaten 1661 Death - Louis Couperin, composer, dies 1661 Event - French King Louis XIV ends office of premier 1660 Death - Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French king Louis XIII, dies at 51 1659 Event - Peace of Pyreneeen: French king Louis XIV and Spanish king Philip IV 1655 Death - Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter, dies at 50 1655 Birthday - Louis Willem I, Margrave, Baden-Baden 1654 Event - Louis II Conde disbands ends of Atrecht 1654 Event - Louis XIV crowned King of France 1652 Event - King Louis XIV returns to Paris 1652 Birthday - Louis Le Quointe, composer 1652 Death - Louis de Geer, Netherlands/Swedish industrialist/millionaire, dies at 64 1651 Event - King Louis XIV of France (13) declarer of full age 1650 Event - French Prince Louis II of Conde captured 1648 Event - French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together 1648 Birthday - Louis Bouteiller, composer 1644 Birthday - Francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV 1644 Birthday - Louis Boufflers, marshall of France 1643 Event - Louis XIV (4) becomes king of France 1643 Death - Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43), dies at 41 1638 Birthday - Louis XIV, Sun King, king of France, 1643 - 1715 1638 Birthday - Louis XIV, Sun King, king of France, 1643-1715, 1635 Birthday - Francoise d'Aubigne, wife of King Louis XIV 1628 Event - French king Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle 1624 Event - Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII 1622 Event - French King Louis XIII and Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier 1621 Birthday - Louis II Conde, Great Conde, duke of Bourbon, Rocroy 1620 Event - French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII 1620 Event - Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici 1620 Death - Willem Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies at 59 1617 Death - Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher, dies at about 76 1614 Event - French king Louis XIII (13) declared an adult 1610 Event - Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French king 1608 Birthday - Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French King Louis XIII/general 1605 Birthday - Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter 1604 Death - Louis Gunther, earl of Nassau, dies in battle at about 29 1601 Birthday - Louis XIII, king of France, 1610-43 1601 Event - Louis Gunther of Nassau weds countess Anna Margaretha of Manderscheid 1594 Event - Groningen surrenders to earl Mauritius/Willem Louis 1594 Event - Earl Mauritius and Willem Louis begins siege of Groningen 1593 Event - William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe 1591 Event - Spanish troops in Zutphen surrenders to Willem Louis/Mauritius 1587 Death - Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed 1584 Event - Willem Louis of Nassau appointed viceroy of Friesland 1576 Death - Louis de Boisot, Dutch admiral, drowns at about 44 1575 Death - Renee/Renata de France, duchess of Ferara/daughter of Louis XII, dies 1574 Event - Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot) 1574 Event - Battle of Mookerhei-D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau 1574 Death - Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle at 35 1574 Event - Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht 1572 Event - Louis van Nassau and huguenots occupy Valenciennes 1569 Death - Louis Conde, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies in battle 1566 Death - Ludovicus Blosius, Louis de Blois "Dacrianus", wrtier, dies 1530 Birthday - Louis I Conde, French prince/leader of hugenots 1529 Death - Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake 1526 Death - Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 1522 Death - Anne de Beaujeu, daughter of French king Louis XI, dies at 61 1515 Event - Louis of Hungary (9) marries Maria of Bohemia and succession to Hungarian throne 1515 Event - Francois, Duke of Angoulame succeeds Louis XII as Francois I of France 1515 Death - Louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52 1514 Event - King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII 1510 Birthday - Rene/Renata de France, duchess of Ferara/daughter of Louis XII 1509 Event - French army under Louis XII enters Alps 1506 Birthday - Louis II, king of Hungary/Bohemia, 1516-26 1505 Birthday - Maria, queen of Hungary/wife of Louis II/governess of Netherlands, 1531-55 1504 Event - Treaty of Blois: Philip van Bourgondie and Maximilian I and Louis XII 1504 Event - King Louis XII loses last bulwark in Naples, Caeta 1501 Event - Maximilian of Austria and Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente 1500 Event - Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza 1499 Event - French king Louis XII occupies Milan 1499 Event - Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown 1483 Death - Louis XI, King of France (1461-83), dies at 60 1482 Death - Louis van Bourbon, prince-Bishop of Luik (Cluppelslagers), dies 1479 Event - Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI 1479 Death - Louis IX, the Rich, duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt), dies at 61 1477 Birthday - Anna de Bretagne, wife of Maximilian of Austria and Louis XII 1475 Event - Treaty of Picquigny, king Louis XI buys English contacts 1468 Event - Treaty of Peronne: Duke Charles the Stoute and French king Louis XI 1465 Event - Peace of St. Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik 1465 Event - French King Louis XI signs peace with Charles the Stout 1464 Event - French King Louis XI forms postal service 1463 Death - Louis Chalon, prince of Orange, dies 1462 Birthday - Louis XII, the Just, King of France, 1498-1515 1456 Event - Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik 1456 Event - Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege 1447 Death - Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies 1423 Birthday - Louis XI, King of France, 1461-83 1417 Birthday - Louis IX, Duke of Bayern, University of Ingolstadt 1407 Death - Louis, duke of Orleans, murdered 1385 Event - Peace of Doornik: Gent and Louis van Thoughts 1384 Death - Louis, duke of Anjou/wife of Marie of Bretagne 1384 Death - Louis I, duke of Anjou/king of Naples (Battle of Poitiers), dies 1384 Death - Louis van Male, count of Flanders/Nevers/Rethel, dies 1382 Death - Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary/Poland, dies 1360 Birthday - Louis, founder of house of Anjou 1357 Event - Flemish earl Louis and Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace treaty 1347 Death - Louis IV, Duke of Bayern/Romania-Germany King/emperor, dies 1347 Event - Engagement of Count Louis of Male to Margaretha to daughter of Jan III 1346 Death - Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders, dies in battle 1346 Event - Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy 1346 Event - Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand 1339 Birthday - Louis I, Duke of Anjou/King of Naples, Battle at Poitiers 1336 Death - Louis III, last Earl of Loon, dies 1330 Birthday - Louis van Male, Count of Flanders/Nevers/Rethel 1328 Event - Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as anti-Pope Nicolaas V 1326 Birthday - Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary, 1342-82, Poland, 1370-82 1320 Event - Count Louis of Nevers marries 8-year old daughter of Philips V 1316 Death - Louis X, King of France (1314-16), dies at 26 1294 Death - Louis II, the Stern, ruler of Upper-Bayern, dies 1289 Birthday - Louis X, the Stubborn, king of France, 1314-16 1285 Death - Charles I of Anjou, king of Naples/bro of King Louis IX, dies at 58 1270 Death - Louis IX, the Saint, King of France (1226-70), dies from plague at 56 1269 Event - King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame 1259 Event - Treaty of Paris: English king Henry III and French king Louis IX 1231 Death - Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach, dies 1229 Birthday - Louis II, the Stern, ruler, upper Baveria 1226 Death - Louis VIII, the Lion, King of France (1223-26), dies at 39 1217 Event - French prince Louis and English king Henry III sign peace treaty 1216 Event - French crown prince Louis enters England 1214 Birthday - Louis IX, King of France, 1226 - 1270 1213 Event - Battle at Steppes-Bishop Pierrepont and Louis II beat Henry I of Brabant 1204 Death - Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Louis VII and Henry II, dies at 81 1187 Birthday - Louis VIII, Coeur-de-Lion, king of France, 1223-26 1180 Death - Louis VII, the Younger, King of France (1137-80), dies at 59 1180 Death - Louis VII, King of France, dies 1174 Birthday - Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach 1171 Death - Louis I, Earl of Wage/Rieneck, dies 1137 Death - Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37) 1131 Event - Crowning of Louis VII the Young, King of France 1108 Event - Louis VI, "the Fat One," King of France, crowned 987 Event - Louis IV, crowned king of France 987 Death - Louis V le Faineant, the Lazy, king of France (986-87), poisoned at 20 987 Death - Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies 979 Event - Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France 954 Death - Louis IV, of overseas, King of France, dies 928 Death - Louis III, the Blind Proveneaals king of Lombardije/Germany, dies at 48 905 Event - Holy Roman Catholic emperor Louis III captured 882 Death - Louis III, King of France (879-82), dies at 19 882 Death - Louis II/III the Younger, German king (876-82), dies 881 Event - Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings 879 Event - Louis III, crowned King of France 879 Death - Louis II, the stutterer, King of France (877-79), dies 876 Event - Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare 876 Death - Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies 875 Death - Louis II, king of Italy/emperor of France, dies at about 50 870 Event - Kings Charles the Bare and Louis the German divide Lutherans 860 Event - Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German and Lotharius II 846 Birthday - Louis II, the Stutterer, King of France, 877-79 843 Event - Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German and Charles the Bare divide France 843 Death - Judith, French empress/2nd wife of Louis de Vrome, dies 842 Event - Charles II and Louis the German sign treaty 841 Event - Battle at Fontenay: Louis and Charles beat their brother Lotharius I 840 Death - Louis de Vrome, emperor of French rich, dies 833 Event - Louis, king of Austria, crowned 816 Event - Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity 813 Event - Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor 801 Event - Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona |
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