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2008 William Louis Dickinson, Representative-R-Alabama 1965 - 1993, died from colon cancer

2007 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 World Series, Boston Red Sox beat Saint Louis Cardinals 4 games to 0

2002 Super Bowl XXXVI, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, New England Patriots beat St. Louis Rams 20-17

2001 20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at St. Louis

2001 Louis Edmonds, actor, Dark Shadows, dies at 77

2000 Super Bowl XXXIV, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans 23-16

1997 St. Louis Card Mark McGwire hits his 58th home run of 1997 (34 with Oak A's)

1997 Mark McGwire signs with the St. Louis Cardinals for $26M

1997 A's trade Mark McGwire to St. Louis Cardinals07940601

1997 Louis Cohen, physicist, dies at 71

1997 Atlanta Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals, 1-0 in 13 innings

1997 St. Louis Cardinals Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits

1997 San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals play at Aloha Stadium Hawaii

1997 Louis Pauwels, writer/editor, dies at 76

1996 Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, politician, dies at 87

1996 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

1996 Braves blow out St. Louis, 14-0 in an NLCS game

1996 Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss, journalist/travel writer, dies at 42

1996 Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79

1996 Louis Gottlieb, musician, dies at 72

1996 122nd Preakness: Pat Day aboard Louis Quatorze wins in 1:53.2

1996 Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82

1995 Louis Malle, film director (Pretty Baby), dies at 63

1995 Louis Levy, Jr., music publisher, dies at 84

1995 Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91

1995 Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger, dies at 63

1995 Martin Louis "Marty" Paich, jazz arranger, dies at 70

1995 Sylvester Louis Adams, murderer, dies at 39

1995 Louis Krasner, violinist, dies at 91

1995 Chiel Meijering's "St. Louis Blues," premieres in Arnhem

1995 Louis Sen A Kaw, Suriname's great dam builder, dies at 75

1995 Louis Heren, journalist, dies at 65

1995 Los Angeles Rams announce that they are moving to St. Louis

1995 Louis "Loulou" Gaste, guitarist/comp (Doggy in the Window), dies at 88

1994 Louis Nizer, lawyer, dies at 92

1994 Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter, dies at 62

1994 Louis Myers, blues guitarist /harmonica player, dies at 64

1994 Louis Benjamin, showman, dies at 71

1994 Louis Calaferte, writer (Requiem of the Innocents), dies at 65

1994 Louis Simmonds, bookseller, dies at 87

1994 Louis Freeman, band leader, dies at 100

1994 St. Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1

1994 Louis Kaufman, U.S. violinist and conductor (Gone with the Wind), dies at 88

1994 Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakham's murder

1994 Louis R J Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor of Zoelen, dies at 87

1993 Actress Loretta Young, 80, weds costume designer Jean Louis, 85

1993 St. Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves

1993 Billy Conn, boxer (fought Joe Louis 1951), dies of pneumonia at 75

1993 Edwin Louis Battle, actor (Almost Blue, Chase), dies of stroke at 33

1992 Louis Ducrut, prince/son of Princess Stephanie and Daniel Ducrut

1992 Miami Dolphen Louis Oliver returns record tying interception 103 yards

1992 74th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 278 at Bellerive St. Louis

1992 Viktor Louis, Russian journalist, dies

1992 Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St. Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert

1991 Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St. Louis

1991 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 St. Louis Blues Brett Hull scores his 86th goal

1991 St. Louis Blue Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season

1991 Louis Seigner, actor (Eclipse, Special Section), dies in a fire at 87

1990 Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe," premieres in London

1990 Louis Althusser, French philosopher, dies

1990 Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside park grandslam

1990 Rosie Jones, (St. Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America

1990 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 "Meet Me in St. Louis" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 253 performances

1989 "Meet Me in St. Louis" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 253 performances

1989 August A Busch III becomes CEO of St. Louis Cardinals

1989 A A Busch, Jr., brewer/baseball owner for the St. Louis Cardinals, dies at 90

1989 Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St. Louis at Shea Stad

1989 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St. Louis

1988 New York Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs St. Louis Blues

1988 Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84

1988 Louis Quinn, actor (Unholy Rollers), dies at 73 of cancer

1988 Louis L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie), dies at 80 of cancer

1988 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 NFL's St. Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix

1988 KWK-FM in St. Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG

1988 39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St. Louis

1988 NFL St. Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix

1987 Louis de Meester, composer, dies at 83

1987 Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series

1987 St. Louis Cardinals beat San Francisco Giants, 4 games to 3 in NLCS

1987 Mary Astor, actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St. Louis, Fiesta), dies at 81

1987 Louis Philip Kentner, composer, dies at 82

1987 Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94

1986 Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 77

1986 Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 76

1986 Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian, dies at 90

1985 Kansas City Royals beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series

1985 Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals win their league championships

1985 St. Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man

1985 Louis Hayward, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), dies of lung cancer at 75

1984 KWK-AM in St. Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD

1984 Montreal Expo David Palmer no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0 in a perfect 5 inn game

1984 KSD-AM in St. Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA

1984 Louis Basile, actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48

1983 St. Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0

1983 Minnesota Vikings beat St. Louis Cardinals 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo)

1983 Louis De Funes, actor and writer (Mad Adv of Rabbi Jacobs), dies at 68

1982 Louis Aragon, French poet (Pour un Realisme Socialiste), dies at 85

1982 St. Louis Cardinals beat Mil Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series

1982 Louis J N Gerardin, bicyclist (world champ sprint 1930), dies at 69

1982 Louis M de Guiringaud, French Foreign Minister (1976-78), commits suicide at 70

1981 Louis Cheslock, composer, dies at 81

1981 Joe Louis, also known as the 'Brown bomber', U.S. heavyweight champ 1937 - 1949, dies at 66

1980 Louis Neefs, Belgian singer, dies at 43

1980 St. Louis Cardinals sack Baltimore Colt quarterbacks an NFL record tying 12 times

1980 Earnest Gray becomes 2nd New York Giant to score 4 TDs (vs St. Louis)

1979 St. Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th and final base of his career

1979 Louis Mountbatten, British Admiral of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA

1979 Louis Salvador Palange, composer, dies at 61

1979 Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Eros and the Lonely Man), dies at 67

1979 Louis LaRusso II's "Knockout," premieres in New York City

1978 Louis Prima, singer, dies at 66

1978 Cincinnati Red Tom Seaver no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0

1978 St. Louis Card Bob Forsch no-hits Phillies, 5-0

1977 Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92

1977 Miami Bob Greise passes for 6 touchdowns vs St. Louis (55-14)

1977 James Louis McCartney, son of Paul and Linda McCartney

1977 St. Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3

1977 Louis J M Beel, Dutch premier (1946-48, 58-59), dies at 74

1976 Louis Fourestier, composer, dies at 84

1976 St. Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo)

1976 St. Louis Cardinals Lou Brock and Hector Cruz hit inside-the-park home runs

1976 St. Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 home run

1975 Kristin Folkl, born in St. Louis, Missouri, volleyball outside hitter

1975 Orlando Pace, tackle for the St. Louis Rams

1975 Denv Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St. Louis Spirits

1975 Ryan Tucker, NFL center for the St. Louis Rams

1975 Lawrence Phillips, running back for the St. Louis Rams

1975 Miguel Mejia, San Pedro de Macoris, outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals

1975 Landon Wilson, St. Louis, NHL right wing for the Colorado Avalanche

1975 Louis J H C A de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Gypsy Blood), dies at 66

1974 Louis B Russell, Jr., longest living heart transplant, dies at 49

1974 Jerald Moore, running back for the St. Louis Rams

1974 Chris Pronger, NHL defenseman, Team Canada Olympics-1998, St. Louis

1974 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 St. Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base

1974 Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, dies at 63

1974 Louis I Kahn, Estonia/US architect, dies at about 73

1973 Muadianvita Kazadi, linebacker for the St. Louis Rams

1973 Mitch Jacoby, tight end for the St. Louis Rams

1973 Taje Allen, kicker for the St. Louis Rams

1973 Dexter McCleon, cornerback for the St. Louis Rams

1973 Gerald McBurrows, safety for the St. Louis Rams

1973 New York Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St. Louis

1973 Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson elected

1973 Tony Banks, quarterback for the St. Louis Rams

1973 Louis Laros, Dutch soccer player, Willem II, Vitesse

1973 Billy Baumhoff, born in St. Louis, Missouri, soccer midfielder/forward, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics

1973 Fred Miller, tackle for the St. Louis Rams

1973 Eddie Kennison, wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams

1973 Aaron Holbert, U.S. baseball infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals

1972 Mike Gruttadauri, corner for the St. Louis Rams

1972 Isaac Bruce, NFL wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams

1972 Louis Michael Anthony Sassin, Boston, rocker, 4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun

1972 Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 68

1972 Louis Leakey, English anthropologist, dies at 68

1972 Amy Frazier, born in St. Louis, Missouri, tennis star

1972 David Bell, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals

1972 N.Y. Cosmos beat St. Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship

1972 Derrick Harris, running back for the St. Louis Rams

1972 Ernie Conwell, tight end for the St. Louis Rams

1972 Zach Wiegert, tackle for the St. Louis Rams

1972 Keith Lyle, safety for the St. Louis Rams

1972 Jeff Wilkins, kicker for the St. Louis Rams

1972 Alan Benes, Evansville, Indiana, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1972 Kimberly Anne Massaro, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Miss America, Missouri-5th-1997

1971 Jay Williams, defensive end for the St. Louis Rams

1971 Amp Lee, NFL running back, Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Rams

1971 Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 71

1971 D'Marco Farr, defensive tackle for the St. Louis Rams

1971 Louis de Bree, Louis C Davids, Dutch actor (Bluejackets), dies at 87

1971 Wayne Gandy, tackle for the St. Louis Rams

1970 Louis Zimmer, Flem clock maker (Jubelklok, Wonder Clock), dies at 82

1970 Keith Crawford, wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams

1970 Toby Wright, safety for the St. Louis Rams

1970 John Mabry, Wilmington, Delaware, outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals

1970 Lucy Nusrala, born in St. Louis, Missouri, 5k runner

1970 Ryan McNeil, NFL cornerback, Detroit Lions, St. Louis Rams

1970 Juano Hernandez, actor (St. Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74

1970 Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games

1970 Bryan Robinson, defensive end for the St. Louis Rams

1970 Jeff Robinson, NFL defensive end, Denver Broncos, St. Louis Rams

1970 Albert Louis Wolff, composer, dies at 86

1970 Brendan Eppert, born in St. Louis, Missouri, speed skater 1994 Olympics

1970 John Frascatore, U.S. baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1970 Ronald Moore, NFL running back, New York Jets, St. Louis Rams, Az Cardinals

1970 23rd NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 4-1 at St. Louis

1970 T J Mathews, Belleville, Illinois, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1970 John Gerak, NFL tight end/guide, Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Rams

1970 Royce Clayton, born in Burbank, California, infielder, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals

1969 Louis van Tulder, tenor (Kantoorkruk to high C), dies at 77

1969 Mark Sweeney, Framington Massachusetts, outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals

1969 Robert Person, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pitcher for the New York Mets

1969 Patrick Alfred Bates, born in St. Louis, Missouri, PGA golfer, 1994 NIKE Dakota Open

1969 Donovan Osborne, born in Roseville, California, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1969 KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting

1969 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA St. Louis Women's Golf Invitational

1969 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games

1969 Michael Jones, NFL linebacker, Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams

1969 Louis Riddick, NFL safety born in Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons

1969 Bryan Eversgerd, U.S. baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1969 Todd Lyght, U.S. football quarterback for the St. Louis Rams

1969 Robert Young, NFL player for the St. Louis Rams

1969 Brian Boehringer, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pitcher, New York Yankees

1969 Todd Kinchen, NFL wide receiver, St. Louis Rams, Atlanta Falcons

1968 George Louis Francis Lewis, composer, dies at 16

1968 Bill Johnson, defensive tackle for the St. Louis Rams

1968 Detroit Tigers beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series

1968 St. Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with 1.12 ERA

1968 Gaylord Perry (Giants) no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 1-0

1968 Gateway Arch in St. Louis dedicated

1968 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games

1968 Donald L Hall, airplane designer (Spirit of St. Louis), dies at 69

1968 Roman Phifer, linebacker for the St. Louis Rams

1968 Will Furrer, NFL quarterback, Houston Oilers, St. Louis Rams

1968 Tom Urbani, Santa Cruz California, pitcher, St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers

1967 Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55

1967 St. Louis Cardinals Orlando Cepeda is 1st unanimous NL MVP

1967 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 Dave Silvestri, born in St. Louis, Missouri, infielder, New York Yankees, Montreal Expos

1967 Andy Benes, born in Evansville, Indiana, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1967 New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St. Louis 23-14

1967 Wendy Lian Williams, born in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. diver, Olympic-bronze-88, 92

1967 Ray Lankford, born in Modesto, California, outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals

1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St. Louis Women's Golf Invitational

1967 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 Brian Jordan, born in Baltimore, Maryland, outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals

1967 Dwayne "Road Grader" White, NFLer, New York Jets, St. Louis

1966 [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Manner Kater), dies at 83

1966 Thomas Louis Tolles, Jr., Ft. Myers, Florida, PGA golfer, 1995 Bob Hope-3rd

1966 Bernard Gilkey, born in St. Louis, Missouri, outfielder for the New York Mets

1966 Igor Kravchuk, Ufa Russia, NHL defenseman, Team Russia, St. Louis

1966 37th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 at Busch Stad, St. Louis

1966 St. Louis' Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns

1966 Last game at old Busch stadium, St. Louis Card lose 10-5 to SF

1966 Louis A. Johnson, American Public Servant

1966 Louis Oliver, NFL safety, Miami Dolphins

1966 Rene Arocha, Cubans/US baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1966 Britt Hager, NFL linebacker, Denver Broncos, St. Louis Rams

1966 Anthony Parker, NFL cornerback, Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Rams, TB Bucs

1966 Paul Ranheim, St. Louis, NHL left wing, Hartford Whalers

1966 Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St. Louis, to become NWA champ

1965 Mark Petkovsek, Beaumont, Texas, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1965 1st New York Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St. Louis

1965 630 foot high Gateway Arch completed in St. Louis

1965 Vernice Smith, NFL guard, Washington Redskins, St. Louis Rams

1965 Mary Mills wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open

1965 Luis Alicea, born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals

1965 65th U.S. Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive CC in St. Louis

1965 Todd Stottlemyre, Yakima, Washington, pitcher, St. Louis Cardinals, Blue Jays

1965 Angela Zuckerman, born in St. Louis, Missouri, speed skater 1994 Olympics

1965 Ron Gant, Victoria, Texas, outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals

1965 Pat LaFontaine, born in St. Louis, Missouri, NHL center, New York Islanders, New York Rangers

1964 Bob Petit (St. Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points

1964 St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 61st World Series

1964 Phils bomb Reds 10-0 as both teams finish one game behind St. Louis

1964 Sherry Arnett, born in St. Louis, Missouri, playmate, Jan, 1986

1964 St. Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2

1964 St. Louis Cardinals are 11 games back in NL, and win World Series

1964 St. Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader

1964 Brett Hull, born in Belleville, Ontario, NHL right wing, St. Louis Blues, USA

1964 Louis Clark, NFL receiver, Seattle, WLAF coach for the Amsterdam Admirals

1964 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 Louis Gruenberg, composer, dies at 79

1964 Ground is broken for a new stadium in St. Louis

1964 Leslie O'Neal, NFL defensive end, San Diego Chargers, St. Louis Rams

1964 Edward Anthony Richard Louis, Prince of Britain/Elizabeth II grandson

1964 John Habyan, U.S. baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1964 Louis Horst, composer, dies at 80

1964 Krista Tesreau, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Tina-OLTL, Silk Stalkings

1963 Stan Musial Day in St. Louis

1963 Louis MacNeice, British Poet

1963 St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Curt Simmons steals home plate

1963 Al MacInnis, Inverness NS, NHL defenseman, Team Canada, St. Louis

1963 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 Ken Ftach, born in St. Louis, Missouri, tennis star

1963 Jessie Hester, NFL player for the St. Louis Rams

1962 Mark Rypien, quarterback for the St. Louis Rams

1962 Morris Louis, U.S. painter (post painterly abstraction), dies at 49

1962 Tom Pagnozzi, born in Tucson, Arizona, catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1962 Louis A van Gasteren, Dutch actor (Willem van Oranje), dies at 74

1962 Brandel Eugene Chamblee, born in St. Louis, Missouri, PGA golfer, 1994 Honda-3rd

1962 St. Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals

1962 Jackie Joyner-Kersee, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, heptathele won Olympic gold 1988, 1992

1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs St. Louis

1961 Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss, journalist/travel writer

1961 For 2nd time in his career, St. Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions

1961 St. Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws

1961 St. Louis Cardinals Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas

1961 Jeff Parrett, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1961 Danny Sheaffer, born in Jacksonville, Florida, catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1961 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto

1961 St. Louis Cardinal Bill White hits 3 home runs and a double

1961 Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St. Louis, opens

1961 15th NBA Championship: Bos Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 1

1960 James Patrick Delsing, born in St. Louis, Missouri, PGA golfer, 1993 New England-2nd

1960 Ola Ray, born in St. Louis, Missouri, playmate, Jun, 1980, actress, Thriller

1960 Chicago Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0

1960 14th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3

1960 NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St. Louis

1960 Louis Jean Heydt, actor (Joe-Waterfront), dies at 54

1960 Alfrederick Joyner, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, triple jumper, Gold Medal 1984 Olympics

1959 Mike Morgan, Tulare California, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1959 1st World Series game played west of St. Louis (in LA)

1959 San Francisco Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0

1959 Heather Drew, born in St. Louis, Missouri, LPGA golfer, 1987 Henredon Classic-5th

1959 Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 81

1959 KPLR TV channel 11 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting

1959 Bill White traded to St. Louis for pitchers Sam Jones and Don Choate

1959 Tornado in St. Louis kills 19 and injures 265

1959 Linda Blair, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Exorcist, Chained Heat, Savage St

1959 Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St. Louis, to become NWA champ

1958 Willie McGee, born in San Francisco, California, outfielder, St. Louis Cardinals, NL MVP-1985

1958 Hal Haenel, born in St. Louis, Missouri, star yachter, Olympics-8th-1988, 92, 96

1958 France St. Louis, ice hockey forward, Canada, 1998 Olympics

1958 St. Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout

1958 Gary Gaetti, Centralia, Illinois, infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals

1958 Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco

1958 12th NBA Championship: St. Louis Hawks beat Bost Celtics, 4 games to 2

1958 William C. Handy, U.S. conductor and composer (St. Louis Blues), dies at 84

1958 Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco/bobsledder 1988 Olympics

1958 Ruth Guerri, born in St. Louis, Missouri, playmate, July, 1983

1958 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 Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71

1957 Louis B. Mayer, American Director

1957 Tony Fossas, Cuba, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1957 Louis Furnberg, writer, dies at 48

1957 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St. Louis, Illinois (state record)

1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St. Louis, Illinois, state record

1957 John Stuper, baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1957 KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting

1957 11th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3

1956 Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St. Louis, to become NWA champ

1956 [Emile M] Louis Madelin, French historian (Fouche), dies at 85

1956 Fay Crocker wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open

1956 Louis Calhern, dies at 61

1956 Biggest NBA margin of victory - Minnesota Lakers-133, St. Louis Hawks-75

1956 Louis Bromfield, writer, dies at 59

1955 Sylvester Louis Adams, murderer

1955 Louise Suggs wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open

1955 Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer, dies at 72

1955 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75

1955 Louis Johnson, born in Los Angeles, California, rock bassist/vocalist, Brothers Johnson

1954 Ozzie Smith, Mobile AL, infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals

1954 Louis de Bernieres, British Novelist

1954 Scott Bakula, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Quantum Leap, Gung Ho, Murphy Brown

1954 Dennis Eckersley, born in Oakland California, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1954 KETC TV channel 9 in Saint Louis, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting

1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open

1954 117 degrees F (47 degrees C), East St. Louis, Illinois (state record)

1954 KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast

1954 Rick Honeycutt, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1954 Mark Linn-Baker, born in St. Louis, actor, Larry Appleton-Perfect Strangers

1954 Louis Zimmermann, violinist, dies at 80

1953 Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St. Louis Browns

1953 Jay Dean Haas, born in St. Louis, Missouri, PGA golfer, 1978 Andy Williams-San Diego

1953 St. Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc

1953 A Baltimore group purchases St. Louis Browns

1953 Keith Hernandez, born in San Francisco, California, 1st baseman, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets

1953 St. Louis Browns play last game in Sportsman's Park, losing 100th game

1953 Billy Hunter is last St. Louis Browns player to homer in a game

1953 AL approves St. Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles

1953 Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yankees lose ending 18 game win streak and also ending St. Louis Brown 14 game losing streak

1953 Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St. Louis Browns for $2,475M

1953 AL rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St. Louis Browns to Baltimore

1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St. Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee

1953 Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 68

1952 Michael McDonald, St. Louis, rock keyboardist/vocals, Doobie Brothers

1952 George Louis Francis Lewis, composer

1952 John Goodman, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Dan Conner-Roseanne, Babe

1952 St. Louis Browns fire manager Rogers Hornsby

1952 Louis Cortelezzi, rock saxophonist, Mink DeVille

1952 St. Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan

1952 Peter Westbrook, born in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. fencer, Olympic-bronze-88, 92, 96

1952 Louis van Deyssel, Dutch writer (Diary of Franc Rozelaar), dies at 87

1951 Louis Pierard, Belgian journalist/author (London sketches), dies at 65

1951 Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden

1951 Terry Metcalf, Seattle, NFL, CFL running back, St. Louis, Toronto

1951 St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0

1951 Louis Jouvet, actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise), dies at 63

1951 Bill Veeck buys St. Louis Browns from Bill and Charlie DeWitt

1951 Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory

1951 Thomas D Akers, St. Louis, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-41, 49, 61, 79

1951 Fred Berry, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Rerun-What's Happening

1951 St. Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45

1951 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 Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles KOs Joe Louis in New York City for heavyweight boxing title

1950 Henry Louis Gates, American Critic

1950 Boston Red Sox beat St. Louis Browns 29-4 (win by record 25 runs)

1950 St. Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Washington Senators

1950 Louis Freeh, American Lawyer

1949 Anita Louis, U.S. singer, Soul Children, I'll Be the Other Woman

1949 St. Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3

1949 Jerry Costello, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, Representative-D-Illinois 1988 -

1949 St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Brooklyn 14-1

1949 Louis Davids, Simon David, cabaret artist, dies at 65

1949 Louis II, Prince of Monaco, dies

1949 Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ

1948 Dan Hamburg, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Representative-D-California 1993 - 1995

1948 4 Duluth Minnesota Dukes (St. Louis Cardinals Class C farm team) die in crash

1948 15th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-2 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis

1948 Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title

1948 30th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Norwood Hills CC St. Louis

1948 T-Bone Burnett, born in St. Louis, Missouri, musician, songwriter, produced artists including BoDeans, Counting Crows, music for films

1948 Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer, dies at 73

1947 Joe Louis beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1947 Bill Longson beats Lou Thesz in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ

1947 Kevin Kline, St. Louis, actor, Sophie's Choice, Big Chill

1947 Lynn Lowry, E St. Louis, Illinois, actress, Cat People, Crazies

1947 James Pankow, born in St. Louis, Missouri, rocker, Chicago

1947 Jose Cruz, leftfielder, St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros

1947 Betty Thomas, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues

1947 Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello

1947 47th U.S. Golf Open: Lew Worsham shoots a 282 at St. Louis CC in MO

1947 Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ

1947 Janis Schmitt, born in St. Louis, Missouri, playmate, February 1978

1947 KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St. Louis, Missouri (NBC) begins broadcasting

1947 Todd Susman, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Goodnight Beantown

1946 St. Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 43rd World Series

1946 Bob Dotson, born in St. Louis, Missouri, newscaster, Primetime Sunday

1946 1st NL playoffs, Dodgers vs Cards (St. Louis wins 2 games to 0)

1946 Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

1946 Marilyn Vos Savant, born in St. Louis, Missouri, writer/world's highest IQ, 228

1946 "St. Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 113 performances

1946 Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show

1946 1st TV sports spectacular - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn

1946 SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St. Louis

1946 Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 8 for heavyweight boxing title

1946 "St. Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 113 performances

1945 Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army

1945 Lee Dorman, born in St. Louis, Missouri, rock bassist, Iron Butterfly

1945 Philadelphia A's Dick Fowler no-hits St. Louis Brown, 1-0

1945 Pater Bleijs, Louis, resistance fighter, dies in car accident

1945 Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 66

1945 Judy Rankin, born in St. Louis, Missouri, LPGA golfer, Vare Trophy 1976-77

1945 Michael Nader, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Peter-Gidget, Dex Dexter-Dynasty

1944 Dick Durbin, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, Representative-D-Illinois 1983 -

1944 St. Louis Cardinals beat St. Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series

1944 1st All St. Louis World Series, all games played at Sportsman's Park

1944 St. Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance

1944 St. Louis Browns win their only AL pennant

1944 David Rasche, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Sledge Hammer

1944 Georges Mandel, Louis Rothschild, French Foreign Minister, dies

1944 "Meet Me in St. Louis" opens on Broadway

1944 Jim Hart, Evanston, Illinois, NFL quarterback for the St. Louis Cardinals

1944 Bruce Summerhays, born in St. Louis, Missouri, PGA golfer, Provo Open-1966, 91 93

1943 Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies at 62

1943 Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21

1943 Faye Wattleton, born in St. Louis, Missouri, sociologist/president, Planned Parenthood

1943 Spencer Charters, actor (Big Town Girl, St. Louis Kid), dies at 68

1943 St. Louis Card Mort Cooper pitches his 2nd consecutive 1 hitter

1943 Joy Harmon, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Cool Hand Luke

1943 Mary Frann, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Joanna-Newhart, Days of Our Live

1942 St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series

1942 St. Louis Cardinals win NL pennant on last day of season

1942 Louis FMF Franchet d'Esperey, French marshal (WW I), dies at 90

1942 Robert C Springer, St. Louis, Col USMC/astronaut, STS-29, STS-38

1942 Marsha Mason, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Blume in Love, Cinderella Liberty

1942 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (New York City)

1942 Louis Gerstner, American Businessman

1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

1941 Joe Louis Caldwell, born in Texas City, basketball player 1964 Olympic gold

1941 Louis D Brandeis, 1st Jewish Supreme Court Judge (1916-39), dies at 84

1941 Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title

1941 Dale Chihuly, born in Tacoma, Washington, artist in glass, Louis Tiffany Award 1967

1941 St. Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0

1941 Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40

1941 Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title

1941 Louis Chevrolet, American Celebrity

1941 Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ

1941 Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title

1941 Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title

1941 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title

1941 Joe Louis KOs Gus Dorazio in 2 for heavyweight boxing title

1941 Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

1941 Dick Gephardt, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Representative-D-Missouri 1977 - 2005

1940 Joe Louis KOs Al McCoy in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in Chicago

1940 St. Louis Browns Johnny Lucadello is 2nd to home run from each side of plate

1940 St. Louis Brown John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings

1940 8th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-0 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis

1940 Fontella Bass, born in St. Louis, Missouri, vocalist, Rescue Me

1940 Billy Davis, Jr., born in St. Louis, Missouri, singer, 5th Dimension-One Less Bell

1940 Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title

1940 1st night game at St. Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2)

1940 Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title

1940 Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Merchant of Venice), dies at 68

1940 Ray Steele beats B. Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ

1940 Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1939 Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title

1939 Lamonte McLemore, born in St. Louis, Missouri, rock vocalist, 5th Dimension

1939 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R P Scholz, St. Louis, Missouri

1939 Louis Davids [Simon David], cabaret performer/chorus performer, dies

1939 Joe Louis TKOs Tony Galent in 4 for heavyweight boxing title

1939 Lou Brock, one-time baseball stolen base leader for the St. Louis Cardinals

1939 Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer, Reconstruction

1939 SS St. Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives

1939 Joe Louis KOs Jack Roper in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

1939 Marion Marlowe, born in St. Louis, Missouri, singer, Arthur Godfrey and Friends

1939 Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ

1939 Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

1938 W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St. Louis Post-Dispatch by radio

1938 Babe Ruth applies for job of St. Louis Browns' manager

1938 Maxine Waters, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Representative-D-California 1991 -

1938 Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium

1938 St. Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row

1938 Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

1938 Nathaniel Taylor, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Rollo-Sanford and Sons

1938 Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66

1938 Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title

1938 Louis EJM de la Vallee-Poussin, (The Way to Nirvana), dies at 69

1938 Louis Krebs Graham, born in Nashville, Tennessee, PGA golfer, 1975 U.S. Open

1938 Bill Emerson, born in Saint Louis, Missouri, Representative-R-Missouri 1981 - 1996

1937 Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ

1937 Louis Victor Saar, composer, dies at 68

1937 St. Louis Cardinals Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP

1937 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 Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1937 Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs St. Louis Browns

1937 Louis Neefs, Belgian singer

1937 Joe Louis KOs James J. Braddock in 18 for heavyweight boxing title

1937 August Busch III, CEO, Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis Cardinals

1937 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive home runs against St. Louis Browns

1937 Phillies trailing 8-2 to St. Louis, forfeit game

1937 Louis Vierne, composer, dies at 66

1937 Chicago White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St. Louis Browns, 8-0

1937 St. Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia Phillies, 15-3

1937 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 Margaret O'Brien, San Diego, actress, Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St. Louis

1937 Grace Bumbry, St. Louis, mezzo-soprano, Venus in Tannhauser

1936 AL OKs night baseball for St. Louis

1936 Louis F. H. Apol, painter and etcher, dies at 86

1936 St. Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes and William O DeWitt

1936 17 year old Bob Feller's 1st game, he strikes out 15 St. Louis Browns

1936 Louis Bieriot, aviator, dies

1936 German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis

1936 Louis Gossett, Jr., born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Officer and Gentleman, Deep

1936 Louis Glass, composer, dies at 71

1936 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St. Louis, Missouri

1935 NHL's St. Louis Eagles fold

1935 Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium

1935 Louis Keith, born in Chicago, physician, expert on multiple-births

1935 Malcolm Frager, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pianist

1934 St. Louis Cardinals beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series

1934 St. Louis Card clinch pennant as Dizzy Dean wins his 30th of year

1934 St. Louis Card Paul Dean no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 3-0

1934 St. Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1

1934 St. Louis Cardinals defeat Cincinnati Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean and Tony Freitos go the distant

1934 Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79

1933 Louis W. Sullivan, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1989 - 1993

1933 Kathleen Nolan, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Real McCoys, Janie, Broadside

1933 Bert Convy, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw

1933 Bert Convy, born in St. Louis, Missouri, game show host, Win, Lose or Draw

1933 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs St. Louis Cardinals

1933 Louis Farrakhan, minister, black islam nation, million man march

1933 Louis Rukeyser, financial whiz, Wall Street Week

1933 Ron Townson, born in St. Louis, Missouri, rock vocalist, 5th Dimension-Up Up and Away

1932 Robert Pettit, NBA star, St. Louis Bombers/1959 MVP

1932 Louis Malle, France, director, Atlantic City, Black Moon, Viva Maria

1932 Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter

1932 Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger

1932 Lincoln Kilpatrick, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, BJ-Leslie Uggams Show

1932 Louis Woodard Jones, New Rochelle, New York, 4X400m relayer, Gold Medal 1956 Olympics

1931 Whitey Herzog, baseball manager for the St. Louis Cardinals

1931 St. Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series

1931 Cardiss Collins, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Representative-D-Illinois 1973 - 1997

1931 St. Louis Cardinals repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies

1931 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 Louis W. Ballard, born in Cherokee, Quapaw, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee'

1931 Bill Virdon, 2nd baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals/mgr, New York Yankees

1931 Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo

1931 Bill Clay, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Representative-D-Missouri 1969 - 2001

1931 Cleveland Indian Wes Ferrell no-hits St. Louis Browns, 9-0

1930 Doris Roberts, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Angie, Maggie, Emmy 1983

1930 Philadelphia A's beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series

1930 World Series opens at Phila's Shibe Park, Philadelphia A's beat St. Louis 5-2

1930 White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St. Louis Browns

1930 New York Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 home runs to beat St. Louis Browns, 7-6

1930 Earl Weaver, born in St. Louis, Missouri, manager, Baltimore Orioles 1968-82, 85-86

1930 St. Louis Cardinals are 12 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant

1930 1st U.S. indoor glider flight, St. Louis Terminal Building

1929 Moses Gunn, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft

1929 Louis Myers, blues guitarist /harmonica player

1929 Thomas Eagleton, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Senator-D-Missouri 1968 - 1986 and Democratic Vice Presidential candidate 1972

1929 St. Louis has 2, 10 run innings and beats Phillies 28-6

1929 55th Preakness: Louis Schaefer aboard Dr. Freeland wins in 2:01.6

1928 Louis Armstrong makes 78 recording of "West End blues"

1928 25th World Series begins, New York Yankees vs St. Louis Cardinals

1928 Clay Felker, St. Louis, journalist, New York Herald Tribune, Esquire

1928 Charles Louis Strouse, composer

1928 Maya Angelou, born in St. Louis, poet and actress, Nyo-Roots

1928 Michael Harrington, St. Louis, socialist/author, Fragments of Century

1927 Robert Guillaume, Williams, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Benson, Soap

1927 Tornado strikes St. Louis Missouri, 85 die

1927 Raymond Leppard, born in London, England, conductor, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

1927 Lindbergh begins New York flight (Spirit of St. Louis)

1927 Louis B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

1927 Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)

1927 Construction of Spirit of St. Louis is completed

1926 Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch actor and director (Krates), dies at 72

1926 Chuck Berry, St. Louis, rocker, Roll over Beethoven

1926 St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series

1926 St. Louis Cardinals beat Phillies 23-3

1926 Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor, 1958-62 St. Louis Symph

1926 Louis Blom-Cooper QC/press arbiter

1926 Joe Garagiola, born in St. Louis, Missouri, sportscaster/host, Today Show

1926 St. Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from New York Yankees

1925 Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/literary (Assault!), dies at 44

1925 Louis Armstrong records 1st of Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings

1925 Louis Cohen, physicist

1925 Doris J Hart, born in St. Louis, Missouri, tennis player, Wimbledon 1951

1925 Eddie Gaedel, 3'7" St. Louis Browns pinch-hitter, he walked

1925 William Louis Dickinson, born in Opelika, Alabama, Representative-R-Alabama 1965 - 1993

1925 Pierre Louys, PF Louis, French writer (Aphrodite), dies

1925 Louis F J Bouwmeester, actor (Shakespeare), dies

1925 Louis Stokes, born in Cleveland, Ohio, Representative-D-Ohio 1969 - 1999

1924 Louis Teicher, pianist, Ferante and Teicher-Exodus

1924 Phyllis Schlafly, St. Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president

1924 Louis Bellson, Rock Falls, Illinois, orchestra leader, Pearl Bailey Show

1924 St. Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0

1924 Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer merged to form MGM

1924 Louis H Sullivan, architect (Wainwright building St. Louis), dies at 67

1924 Louis Sullivan, American Architect

1923 Louis Lane, born in Eagle Pass, Texas, conductor, Oere Orchestra 1968 - 1973

1923 Louis Gottlieb, musician

1923 Rhonda Fleming, Marilyn Louis, born in Hollywood, California, actress, Spellbound

1923 Louis M A Couperus, poet and writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60

1923 Louis Ganne, composer, dies at 61

1923 10 home runs hit in Phillies 20-14 victory over St. Louis Cardinals

1923 Louis Simpson, Jamaican and US poet, Good News of Death

1923 Al "Red" Schoendienst, baseball manager/2nd baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals

1922 Redd Foxx, born in St. Louis, Missouri, comedian, Sandford and Son, Redd Foxx Show

1922 Louis Benjamin, showman

1922 Giants beat St. Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant

1922 Louis Coerne, composer, dies at 52

1922 St. Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0

1922 Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Eu/Brazil, dies at 80

1922 Shelley Winters, Schrift, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Poseidon Adventure

1922 Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St. Louis teams are on top

1922 Jean-Pierre Rampal, Louis, Marseilles France, flutist

1922 St. Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times

1922 St. Louis gets record 10 hits in a row and beats Phillies 14-8

1922 WEW-AM in Saint Louis Missouri begins radio transmissions

1922 Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian, dies at 86

1922 KSD-AM in Saint Louis Missouri begins radio transmissions

1922 Jean-Pierre [Louis] Rampal, Marseilles France, flautist

1921 Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer, dies at 43

1920 Virginia Mayo, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Out of the Blue, White Heat

1920 Stan Musial, outfielder, St. Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ

1920 Louis Alfred Mennini, composer

1920 Louis Pauwels, writer/editor

1920 Louis Barron, composer

1919 Jean Louis Nicode, composer, dies at 66

1919 Louis Botha, South African Boer leader, dies

1919 Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies

1919 Rusty Gill, born in St. Louis, Missouri, singer, Polka Time

1919 Louis Jourdan, Marseilles France, actor, Gigi, Can-Can, Madame Bovary

1919 Louis Sen A Kaw, Surinam dam builder

1919 Louis Hirsch and Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in New York City

1919 Louis Heren, journalist and writer, China's Three Thousand Years

1918 Louis Althusser, French philosopher, For Marx, Strangled His Wife

1918 Louis W. "Louis" Stotijn, bassoonist/conductor, Residence Orchestra

1918 Louis Applebaum, composer

1917 Louis Salvador Palange, composer

1917 Louis Auchincloss, Lawrence, New York, lawyer/novelist, Watchfires

1917 Riots in East St. Louis Mo

1917 Race riots in East St. Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)

1917 Race riot in East St. Louis Illinois, 1 black killed

1917 St. Louis Brown Bob Groom no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0

1917 St. Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0

1917 Louis G "Lo" van Hensbergen, actor/author, Amsterdam Affair

1917 Chicago White Sox Ed Cicotte no-hits St. Louis Browns, 11-0

1917 M Marie Widlow, born in St. Louis, Missouri, softball pitcher, Hall of Fame 1957

1917 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St. Louis

1917 Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic and poet

1916 Betty Grable, St. Louis, great legs/actress, Gay Divorcee

1916 Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St. Louis Browns, 4-0

1916 Ben Weber, born in St. Louis, Missouri, composer, Thorne Music Award-1965

1916 St. Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 inns in a 0-0 tie vs Boston

1916 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 Louis Toebosch, composer

1916 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 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson

1915 Louis Kaufmans "Unchastened Woman," premieres in New York City

1915 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 Boston Braves trounce St. Louis Cardinals 20-1

1915 Boston Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals 20-1

1915 St. Louis Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago (Federal League), 3-0

1915 St. Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Brooklyn rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, and Card runner scores

1915 George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer, dies at 53

1915 Pittsburghs' Frank Allen no-hits St. Louis (Federal League), 2-0

1915 Pete Gray, one-armed outfielder, St. Louis Browns

1914 Johnny Johnston, born in St. Louis, Missouri, singer, Make that Spare

1914 Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/Flemish People Party, dies

1914 T Handy publishes "St. Louis Blues"

1914 Louis De Funes, born in Courbevoie, France, actor, I Tartassati, Fantomas

1914 Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion, 1937 - 1949

1914 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 Jacob B. Bakema, urban developer, St. Louis Missouri

1914 Louis Osman, architect/artist/goldsmith

1914 Louis Osman, artist architect goldsmith medallist/craftsman

1913 St. Louis Browns manager George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League

1913 Barney Phillips, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Dragnet, Felony Squad

1913 Grandpa [Louis M] Jones, Niagra, Kentucky, country musician, Hee-Haw

1913 Marvin Miller, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Space Patrol, Millionaire

1913 Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim

1912 Louis Prima, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, singer, That Old Black Magic

1912 Morris Louis, U.S. painter, post abstract

1912 Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Zeesterre), dies at 83

1912 St. Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1

1912 Louis J N Gerardin, Toto, French bicyclist/trainer, champ 1930

1912 Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St. Louis Browns, 7-0

1912 Louis Antoine, Belgian miner/sect leader, dies at about 65

1912 Mary Wickes, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Dennis the Menace, Julia, Doc

1912 Louis Boon, born in Aalst, Belgium, born Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon, writer, journalist, novelist, wrote historical novels, modernist work Vergeten straat

1911 Louis M de Guiringaud, French foreign minister, 1976-78

1911 Louis Pincoffs, businessman/Dutch politician 1st-Chamber, dies

1911 Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in New York City

1911 Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St. Louis Browns, 5-0

1911 Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St. Louis Browns, 5-0

1911 U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri closes

1911 Louis Wain, agricultural scientist

1911 Vincent Price, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, House on Haunted Hill, Fly, Laura

1911 Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, HOF baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1910 Louis Levy, Jr., music publisher

1910 Chicago Cub King Cole no-hits St. Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game

1910 Julien Gracq, Louis Poirier, French writer, Andre Breton

1910 Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer, dies at 70

1910 Chicago's Comiskey Park opens - St. Louis Browns beat White Sox 2-0

1909 Louis van Lint, Belgian painter

1909 Josephine Hutchinson, born in Seattle, Washington, actress, Story of Louis Pasteur

1909 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 France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel

1909 Louis Furnberg, writer

1909 Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, politician

1909 Louis Hayward, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, actor, Lone Wolf, Survivors

1908 Louis JHCA de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet, Black Banners

1908 Louis Varney, composer, dies at 64

1908 St. Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn

1908 St. Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia Athletics

1908 Louis Jordan, born in Arkansas, alto saxman, Caldonia

1908 Frank Sully, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Along Came Jones, Phantom Thief

1908 Louis Hostin, born in France, Light Heavyweight, Gold Medals 1932, 1936 Olympics

1908 Louis D L'Amour, Jamestown ND, author, Hondo, Jubal Sackett

1908 Louis L'Amour, American Author

1908 Louis Gaste, songwriter

1908 Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to St. Louis Browns for $5,000

1907 Jane Froman, born in St. Louis, Missouri, singer, Jane Froman's USA Canteen

1907 Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, prince

1907 Louis MacNeice, British Poet

1907 Pieter Louis Tak, writer (Chronicle), dies at 58

1907 St. Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn

1907 William Dollar, St. Louis, ballet dancer/choreographer

1907 Mary Treen, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Emily-Willy

1907 Louis Saguer, composer

1907 General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal

1906 Louis Borell, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, actor, Over the Moon, Queer Cargo

1906 St. Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game

1906 Bkln Dodger Mal Eason no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 2-0

1906 Louis RJ Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor, Zoelen

1906 Louis Simmonds, bookseller

1906 Louis H. Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars

1906 Kent Taylor, Louis Weiss, Iowa, actor, Boston Blackie, Rough Riders

1906 Pierre [Louis] Boileau, born in Paris, France, novelist, Vertigo

1905 Frank Faylen, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Herbert Gillis-Dobie Gillis

1905 Philadelphia A's Rube Waddell no-hits St. Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings

1905 Philadelphia Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St. Louis Browns, 6-0

1905 Louis Philip Kentner, composer

1905 Jan Louis Guillaume "Yvan" Doornik, Netherlands resistance fighter in France

1905 Louis Jean Heydt, born in Montclair, New Jersey, actor, Joe-Waterfront

1905 Charles Melvin Price, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, Representative-D-Illinois 1945 - 1988

1904 3rd Olympic games close in St. Louis

1904 Louis Neel, French physicist, Nobel 1970

1904 Laura Laplante, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Cat and Canary

1904 St. Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints

1904 Louis de Meester, composer

1904 St. Louis Olympics closes

1904 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis

1904 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St. Louis

1904 Vincent Tancred, cricket (Bernard and Louis bro, Test for S A), suicide

1904 1st Olympics in U.S. are held (St. Louis)

1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St. Louis

1904 Edward Chodorov, playwright/director, Story of Louis Pasteur

1904 Albert Kuyle, Louis Kuitenbrouwer, Dutch writer, Jesus' Robe

1903 Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist

1903 New York Giant Red Ames no-hits St. Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game

1903 Wilton Graff, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn

1903 Louis Leakey, anthropologist, 1964 Richard Hooper Medal

1903 Louis Krasner, violinist

1902 Leland Hayward, U.S. producer, Spirit of St. Louis

1902 Orioles forfeit to St. Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL

1902 Louis J. M. Beel, premier of Netherland, 1946-48, 58-59

1902 Louis Nizer, lawyer, defended blacklisted stars in '50s, Catspaw

1901 Milwaukee is dropped from the AL and replaced by St. Louis Browns

1901 Louis Armstrong, American Musician

1901 New York Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St. Louis, 5-0

1901 Louis Kahn, American Architect

1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut

1900 Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, jazz musician, Hello Dolly

1900 Lord Louis Mountbatten, of Burma, royal relative/earl/baron/admiral

1899 Louis Cheslock, composer

1899 Helen Traubel, born in St. Louis, Missouri, soprano, Sieglinde in Walkure, Nightclubs

1898 Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78

1898 Cy Kendall, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Mysteries of Chinatown

1897 Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, France, anti-Semite/nazi collaborator

1897 Jules Buffano, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pianist, Jimmy Durante Show

1897 Louis Aragon, French poet and writer, Feu de joie, Lesson poetes

1897 Morris Carnovsky, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Dead Reckoning

1897 Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot

1896 Louis Bromfield, Mansfield Ohio, writer, Early Autumn, Pulitzer-1926

1896 Louis Napoleon Parker's "Rosemary," premieres in New York City

1896 Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81

1896 Tornado hit St. Louis, killing 255 and leaving thousands homeless

1896 Rogers Hornsby, 2nd baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals

1896 Spiridon Louis wins 1st Olympic marathon (2:58:50)

1896 Charles Louis Ambrose Thomas, French composer (Mignon), dies at 84

1895 Louis Lumiere, twin brothers who opened 1st commercial cinema

1895 Louis Mumford, cultural historian/city planner/writer

1895 Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian

1895 Louis Pasteur, scientist (Pasteurization) dies

1895 Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist (Pasteurization), dies at 72

1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere show film for scientists

1895 Louis Finkelstein, U.S. historian/theologist, Pharizees

1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience

1895 Louis Calhern, New York City, actor, Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle

1895 Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer, dies at 45

1894 Robert Louis Stevenson, English writer (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), dies at 45

1893 Louis Freeman, band leader

1892 Louis Fourestier, composer

1892 Louis van Tulder, Dutch tenor, From Office Stool to High C

1892 Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist, studied electrons

1892 Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St. Louis Mo

1891 Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses

1891 Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator, dies at 78

1891 Frederic Louis Ritter, composer, dies at 67

1891 Wallace Reid, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor/dir/screenwriter, Every Inch a Man

1891 Louis A. Johnson, American Public Servant

1888 T. S. Eliot, St. Louis poet/dramatist/critic, Waste Land-Nobel 1948

1888 Louis Zimmer, Flemish clock maker, Jubelklok/Wonder Clock

1888 Louis Durey, composer

1887 Louis Jouvet, Crozon France, actor, Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise

1887 Louis Gallait, Belgian painter (Egmont and Receiver), dies at 77

1887 Marianne Moore, St. Louis, poet, Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems

1887 Louis A van Gasteren, Dutch actor and director, Willem van Oranje

1887 Detroit (NL) beats St. Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in World Series

1886 St. Louis Browns win World Championship by beating Chicago 4-3 in 10

1886 Louis Hazeltine, inventor, neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible

1886 Louis Pierard, Belgian journalist and writer, Great Germany

1885 Louis Riel, French rebel who fought against Canada, executed at 41

1885 Louis Untermeyer, New York City, poet and critic, Immortal Poems, Story Poems

1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine

1885 Louis B Mayer, Minsk Russia, motion-picture executive, MGM

1885 Georges Mandel, Louis Rothschild, French Foreign minister, -1940

1885 Canadian Meti insurgent Louis Reil captured, Saskatchewan

1885 Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Sask

1885 Louis Riel returns to Canada, proclaims provisional government, Sask

1884 John B Meyenberg of St. Louis patents evaporated milk

1884 Louis Lacombe, composer, dies at 65

1884 Louis Schubert, composer, dies at 56

1884 Louis Gruenberg, near Brest Litovsk Poland, composer, Daniel Jazz

1884 Louis Brassin, composer, dies at 43

1884 Louis de Bree, Louis C Davids, actor, Bluejackets

1884 Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician and resistance fighter

1884 Albert Louis Wolff, composer

1884 Louis Horst, composer

1883 Louis Davids, Simon David, Dutch cabaret performer/chorus performer

1883 [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor, Potasch and Perlemoer

1883 Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer, dies at 67

1883 Louis Veuillot, French Journalist

1883 Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen

1882 Louis Blanc, French Politician

1882 Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer

1882 Louis B. Mayer, American Director

1882 Louis Kufferath, composer, dies at 70

1882 Louis St. Laurent, Compton Quebec, L, 12th Canadian PM, 1948-57

1881 Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist

1881 U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri opens

1881 Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/writer, Assault!

1881 U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri authorized

1880 Henry Louis Mencken, U.S. essayist/critic, American Mercury

1880 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer

1879 King Baggot I, born in St. Louis, Missouri, director, Tumbleweeds

1879 E Louis JJ Napoleon Bonaparte, crown prince, dies in battle at 23

1878 Louis Chevrolet, American Celebrity

1878 Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St. Louis Dispatch"

1878 Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500

1878 Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP, CPN

1877 Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer

1877 Stanner E V Taylor, born in St. Louis, Missouri, director and writer, Lucky Jim, Ramona

1877 Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer

1877 Louis Adolphe Thiers, French Statesman

1877 Louis Francois-Marie Aubert, French composer, Habanera

1876 Baseball's 1st no-hitter, St. Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford

1876 Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis

1875 Francis Preston Blair, Jr., famed St. Louis lawyer, dies at 54

1875 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St. Louis 0

1875 Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer, dies at 84

1874 Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer

1873 J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist, dies

1873 Louis Agassiz, Swiss Scientist

1873 W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, Alabama, jazz star, St. Louis Blues

1873 1st kindergarten public school opens in St. Louis

1873 Louis Zimmermann, violinist and 1st concert master of Concert building

1873 Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer, dies at 52

1872 Charles XV Louis E, king of Sweden/Norway (1859-72), dies

1872 George Louis Beer, historian, authority on British colonies

1872 Louis Bleriot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel

1871 Louis de Vries, Dutch actor, Ghetto

1871 Vernon Louis Parrington, author, Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928

1871 [Emile M] Louis Madelin, French historian, French revolutionary

1871 Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies

1871 Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher, Intelligence of Children

1870 Francis Louis Casadesus, French violinist, composer and conductor

1870 Louis Vierne, composer

1870 Louis Coerne, composer

1870 Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder, Flemish People's Party

1869 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, dies at 40

1869 Louis Raemakers, Dutch draftsman/painter

1869 Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65

1869 Louis EJM de la Vallee-Poussin, Belgian indologist

1868 Louis Victor Saar, composer

1868 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process

1868 [Charles] Louis I [Augustus], King of Bavaria (L Montez), dies at 81

1866 Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies

1866 Louis Clapisson, composer, dies at 57

1864 Louis Lumiere, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895

1864 Louis Van Deyssel, writer, Small Republic, One Love

1864 Louis Hachette, French publisher, dies at 64

1864 Louis Glass, composer

1864 Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer, dies 52

1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)

1863 Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies at 51

1863 Louis M. A. Couperus, Dutch poet and writer, Eline Vere

1862 Louis Botha, Greytown South Africa, 1st Prime Minister of South Africa, 1910 - 1919

1862 Louis Powell Harvey, U.S. governor of Wisconsin, drowns

1862 Louis Ganne, composer

1862 George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer

1861 Union troops march on state militia in St. Louis, Missouri

1861 Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer, dies at 58

1861 Louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal affairs, dies at 74

1860 Louis Hersent, painter, dies

1859 Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82

1859 Ludwig "Louis" Spohr, German violinist and composer (Faust), dies at 75

1859 Louis (Ludwig) Spohr, composer (Faust), dies at 75

1859 Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St. Louis

1856 Louis D. Brandeis, Massachusetts, 68th Supreme Court Justice, 1916-39

1856 Louis Henri Sullivan, born in Boston, Massachusetts, father of modern U.S. architecture

1856 Louis Sullivan, American Architect

1856 E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince

1854 Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense, 1916-17

1854 Louis Mountbatten, Admiral, WW I

1854 Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director, Lost and Found, Silvia Silombra

1854 Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director, Youth

1853 Andre Georges Louis Onslow, composer, dies at 69

1853 Jean Louis Nicode, composer

1853 Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer, dies

1852 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor

1852 Louis FMF Franchet d'Esperey, Desperate Frankey, French marshal, WW I

1851 Melvil[le Louis K] Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries

1851 President Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France

1851 Louis Napoleon takes power in France

1851 Marie-Therese-Charlotte, d of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, dies at 72

1851 Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, French Artist

1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, author, Treasure Island

1850 Louis F. H. Apol, painter and etcher

1850 Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70

1849 Louis count of Barrthyanyi, premier of Hungary, dies at 43

1849 Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer

1849 Fire destroy Centrum in St. Louis Missouri

1848 Louis Massonneau, composer, dies at 82

1848 Pieter Louis Tak, literary, The Chronicle

1848 King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez

1848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker, stained glass windows

1847 Joseph Pulitzer, born in Hungary, publisher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York World

1846 Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronoom, dies at 90

1846 Louis Bonaparte, French Royalty

1846 Louis Napoleon, French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67

1845 Louis III, last king of Bavaria, 1913-18

1844 Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis

1844 Louis Varney, composer

1843 Louis Renault, French lawyer

1842 Louis F J Bouwmeester, Dutch actor, Shakespeare

1842 Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Brazil, 1870-89

1841 Charles Louis W J van Keverberg, Dutch government official, dies at 73

1840 Louis Brassin, composer

1840 Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer

1839 Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris

1839 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)

1836 Louis Napoleon banished to America

1836 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius

1835 Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48

1835 Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian

1833 Louis Douglass Watkins, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1830 Louis H J Conde, French prince, commits suicide at 74

1830 Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe

1829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized U.S. pianist

1829 Auguste Chouteau, St. Louis co-founder, dies

1829 Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author, Blood to Bridge

1828 Louis Schubert, composer

1826 Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway, 1859 - 1872, poet

1824 Augustus Louis Chetlain, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Louis XVIII SX, earl of Province/king of France (1814-24), dies

1824 Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer, dies at 62

1824 Frederic Louis Ritter, composer

1823 Louis Nicholas Davout, French Field Marshal, dies at 53

1822 Louis Pasteur, Dole France, bacteriologist, pasturization

1821 Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII

1820 Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer

1820 Louis Powell Harvey, Governor, Union

1820 James Buchanan Eads, U.S., engineer/inventor, Eads Bridge-St. Louis

1820 Louis Herbert, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1819 Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer

1818 Louis Lacombe, composer

1818 Cincinnati Reds Hod Eller no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 6-0

1816 Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Confederate Army

1815 Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer

1815 King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France

1814 Louis CPR van Orleans, French duke of Nemours

1814 King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England

1813 Louis Veuillot, French Journalist

1813 Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator

1812 Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1811 Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer

1811 Louis Kufferath, composer

1811 Louis Blanc, French Politician

1811 Ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70

1810 Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands

1810 Louis Gallait, historical painter

1809 Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system

1809 Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer, reading system for blind

1808 Louis Clapisson, composer

1808 Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain

1808 Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace

1808 Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law

1807 Louis Agassiz, born in Switzerland, naturalist, geologist, and teacher

1807 Louis Francois Chambray, composer, dies at 69

1806 Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis from Pacific Northwest

1806 Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia Christian, composer, dies at 33

1806 Louis count of Barrthyanyi, premier of Hungary

1805 Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1804 Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis for Pacific Coast

1804 Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII

1803 Louis R E prince de Rohan-Guemene, archbisp of Straatsburg, dies at 68

1802 Louis Kossuth, Hungary, President of Hungary, 1849

1802 Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer

1801 Louis C count Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian diplomat, dies at 73

1800 Louis Hachette, French publisher, Librairie Hachette

1800 Louis J M Daubenton, France, zoologist, dies at 83

1797 Louis Adolphe Thiers, French Statesman

1795 Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95), dies at 10

1793 Louis earl of Bylandt, Dutch admiral, dies at about 75

1793 Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, beheaded

1793 Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France, dies at 80

1793 Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies

1793 Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38

1793 French King Louis XVI sentenced to death

1792 France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason

1792 Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI

1792 King Louis XVI fires French government

1791 France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution

1791 Fleeing French King Louis XVI and family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne

1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution

1790 Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine, Macon France, writer, Rene

1790 Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer

1788 King Louis XVI calls French States and Generals together

1788 Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92

1788 Louis E van Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Austrian duke, dies at 69

1787 Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, French Artist

1787 Louis Angely, German, comedy writer, Sieben Madchen in Uniform

1786 [Charles] Louis I, Augustus, King of Bavaria, Lola Montez

1786 Louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister

1785 Louis XVII Charles, king of France, 1793-95

1785 Claude Louis Marie Navier

1784 Louis [Ludwig] Spohr, born in Germany, violin virtuoso and composer, Faust

1782 Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Phillip of Austria

1779 Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer

1778 Marie-Therese-Charlotte, daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

1778 Louis Napoleon, French king of Netherlands, 1806-10

1778 Louis Bonaparte, French Royalty

1777 Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker

1774 Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV, dies at 80

1774 Louis XVI ascends to throne of France

1774 Louis XV, king of France (1715-74), dies at 64

1773 Luigi Vanvitelli, Louis van Wittel, Italian architect, dies at 72

1772 Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer

1772 Louis Tocque, French painter, dies at 75

1771 Augusta von Saxen-Gotha, German prince Frederick Louis of Wales, dies

1770 Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France

1770 Louis Nicholas Davout, French Field Marshal, defeated Prussians

1769 Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress

1768 Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant

1766 Louis Massonneau, composer

1764 Elisabeth PMH, princess of France/son of king Louis XVI

1764 St. Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue

1761 Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer and Brigadier General

1759 James Wolfe and the French commander Louis Montcalm, killed

1759 Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47

1757 Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens

1756 Louis H J Conde, French prince

1755 Louis XVIII, 1st post-revolutionary king of France, 1814-24

1755 Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronomist

1754 Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France, 1774-93, eventually guillotined

1753 King Louis XV disbands French parliament

1753 French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle

1751 Frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies

1749 Louis Joseph Claude Saint-Amans, composer

1744 French King Louis XV declares war on England

1743 Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, last mistress of Louis XV

1740 Mauritius Louis II earl of Nassau, Lieutenant-general (12 children), dies

1740 Ernest Louis Muller, composer

1737 Louis Francois Chambray, composer

1734 Louis RE prince de Rohan-Guemene, French archbishop of Straatsburg

1734 Louis Lully, composer, dies at 69

1732 1st U.S. professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Philadelphia

1732 Louis Marchand, composer, dies at 63

1728 Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer

1728 Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium

1725 French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary Lesczynski

1721 Madame De Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th

1718 Louis E of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Thick Duke, Austrian duke

1717 Louis Le Quointe, composer, dies at 64

1716 Louis J M Daubenton, French zoologist

1715 Louis XIV, the great, king of France (1643-1715), dies at 76

1714 Duke of Berry, French King Louis XIV's grandson, dies

1713 Louis A A Count d'Affry, French general/ambassador to Netherland

1713 Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France

1713 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere

1712 Louis Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Veran, France, general

1712 Duke of Bourgondie, French king Louis XIV's grandson, dies

1710 Francoise de la Baume Le Blanc, mistress of king Louis XIV, dies at 65

1710 Louis XV the Well-Beloved, Versailles, King of France, 1715-74

1707 Louis Willem I, count of Baden-Baden, dies

1696 Louis Tocque, French painter

1696 French king Louis XIV and Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace

1696 Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu, French marshal

1694 Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV

1690 English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade

1690 French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland

1689 French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain

1688 French king Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands

1686 Louis II Conde, duke of Bourbon, dies at 65

1685 French king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes

1685 Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism

1684 French king Louis XIV marries Madame Maintenon

1683 King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America

1682 Louis XIV and his court inaugurates Paris Observatory

1681 French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Staatsburg

1678 King Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty

1676 Kings Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty

1674 1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Conde vs Willem III)

1673 Peace of Vossem: French King Louis XIV and Frederik Willem of Brandenburg

1673 Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi

1672 French troops under king Louis XIV occupy Utrecht

1671 French King Louis XIV and RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty

1670 English king Charles II and French king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty

1669 Louis Marchand, composer

1669 French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion

1668 King Louis XIV and Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain

1664 Louis Lully, composer

1664 King Louis XIV and Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant

1663 King Louis XIV affirms covenant with Ronstaten

1661 Louis Couperin, composer, dies

1661 French King Louis XIV ends office of premier

1660 Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French king Louis XIII, dies at 51

1659 Peace of Pyreneeen: French king Louis XIV and Spanish king Philip IV

1655 Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter, dies at 50

1655 Louis Willem I, Margrave, Baden-Baden

1654 Louis II Conde disbands ends of Atrecht

1654 Louis XIV crowned King of France

1652 King Louis XIV returns to Paris

1652 Louis Le Quointe, composer

1652 Louis de Geer, Netherlands/Swedish industrialist/millionaire, dies at 64

1651 King Louis XIV of France (13) declarer of full age

1650 French Prince Louis II of Conde captured

1648 French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together

1648 Louis Bouteiller, composer

1644 Francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV

1644 Louis Boufflers, marshall of France

1643 Louis XIV (4) becomes king of France

1643 Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43), dies at 41

1638 Louis XIV, Sun King, king of France, 1643 - 1715

1638 Louis XIV, Sun King, king of France, 1643-1715,

1635 Francoise d'Aubigne, wife of King Louis XIV

1628 French king Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle

1624 Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII

1622 French King Louis XIII and Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier

1621 Louis II Conde, Great Conde, duke of Bourbon, Rocroy

1620 French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII

1620 Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici

1620 Willem Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies at 59

1617 Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher, dies at about 76

1614 French king Louis XIII (13) declared an adult

1610 Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French king

1608 Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French King Louis XIII/general

1605 Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter

1604 Louis Gunther, earl of Nassau, dies in battle at about 29

1601 Louis XIII, king of France, 1610-43

1601 Louis Gunther of Nassau weds countess Anna Margaretha of Manderscheid

1594 Groningen surrenders to earl Mauritius/Willem Louis

1594 Earl Mauritius and Willem Louis begins siege of Groningen

1593 William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe

1591 Spanish troops in Zutphen surrenders to Willem Louis/Mauritius

1587 Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed

1584 Willem Louis of Nassau appointed viceroy of Friesland

1576 Louis de Boisot, Dutch admiral, drowns at about 44

1575 Renee/Renata de France, duchess of Ferara/daughter of Louis XII, dies

1574 Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)

1574 Battle of Mookerhei-D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau

1574 Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle at 35

1574 Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht

1572 Louis van Nassau and huguenots occupy Valenciennes

1569 Louis Conde, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies in battle

1566 Ludovicus Blosius, Louis de Blois "Dacrianus", wrtier, dies

1530 Louis I Conde, French prince/leader of hugenots

1529 Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake

1526 Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20

1522 Anne de Beaujeu, daughter of French king Louis XI, dies at 61

1515 Louis of Hungary (9) marries Maria of Bohemia and succession to Hungarian throne

1515 Francois, Duke of Angoulame succeeds Louis XII as Francois I of France

1515 Louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52

1514 King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII

1510 Rene/Renata de France, duchess of Ferara/daughter of Louis XII

1509 French army under Louis XII enters Alps

1506 Louis II, king of Hungary/Bohemia, 1516-26

1505 Maria, queen of Hungary/wife of Louis II/governess of Netherlands, 1531-55

1504 Treaty of Blois: Philip van Bourgondie and Maximilian I and Louis XII

1504 King Louis XII loses last bulwark in Naples, Caeta

1501 Maximilian of Austria and Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente

1500 Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza

1499 French king Louis XII occupies Milan

1499 Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown

1483 Louis XI, King of France (1461-83), dies at 60

1482 Louis van Bourbon, prince-Bishop of Luik (Cluppelslagers), dies

1479 Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI

1479 Louis IX, the Rich, duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt), dies at 61

1477 Anna de Bretagne, wife of Maximilian of Austria and Louis XII

1475 Treaty of Picquigny, king Louis XI buys English contacts

1468 Treaty of Peronne: Duke Charles the Stoute and French king Louis XI

1465 Peace of St. Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik

1465 French King Louis XI signs peace with Charles the Stout

1464 French King Louis XI forms postal service

1463 Louis Chalon, prince of Orange, dies

1462 Louis XII, the Just, King of France, 1498-1515

1456 Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik

1456 Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege

1447 Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies

1423 Louis XI, King of France, 1461-83

1417 Louis IX, Duke of Bayern, University of Ingolstadt

1407 Louis, duke of Orleans, murdered

1385 Peace of Doornik: Gent and Louis van Thoughts

1384 Louis, duke of Anjou/wife of Marie of Bretagne

1384 Louis I, duke of Anjou/king of Naples (Battle of Poitiers), dies

1384 Louis van Male, count of Flanders/Nevers/Rethel, dies

1382 Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary/Poland, dies

1360 Louis, founder of house of Anjou

1357 Flemish earl Louis and Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace treaty

1347 Louis IV, Duke of Bayern/Romania-Germany King/emperor, dies

1347 Engagement of Count Louis of Male to Margaretha to daughter of Jan III

1346 Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders, dies in battle

1346 Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy

1346 Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand

1339 Louis I, Duke of Anjou/King of Naples, Battle at Poitiers

1336 Louis III, last Earl of Loon, dies

1330 Louis van Male, Count of Flanders/Nevers/Rethel

1328 Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as anti-Pope Nicolaas V

1326 Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary, 1342-82, Poland, 1370-82

1320 Count Louis of Nevers marries 8-year old daughter of Philips V

1316 Louis X, King of France (1314-16), dies at 26

1294 Louis II, the Stern, ruler of Upper-Bayern, dies

1289 Louis X, the Stubborn, king of France, 1314-16

1285 Charles I of Anjou, king of Naples/bro of King Louis IX, dies at 58

1270 Louis IX, the Saint, King of France (1226-70), dies from plague at 56

1269 King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame

1259 Treaty of Paris: English king Henry III and French king Louis IX

1231 Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach, dies

1229 Louis II, the Stern, ruler, upper Baveria

1226 Louis VIII, the Lion, King of France (1223-26), dies at 39

1217 French prince Louis and English king Henry III sign peace treaty

1216 French crown prince Louis enters England

1214 Louis IX, King of France, 1226 - 1270

1213 Battle at Steppes-Bishop Pierrepont and Louis II beat Henry I of Brabant

1204 Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Louis VII and Henry II, dies at 81

1187 Louis VIII, Coeur-de-Lion, king of France, 1223-26

1180 Louis VII, the Younger, King of France (1137-80), dies at 59

1180 Louis VII, King of France, dies

1174 Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach

1171 Louis I, Earl of Wage/Rieneck, dies

1137 Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37)

1131 Crowning of Louis VII the Young, King of France

1108 Louis VI, "the Fat One," King of France, crowned

987 Louis IV, crowned king of France

987 Louis V le Faineant, the Lazy, king of France (986-87), poisoned at 20

987 Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies

979 Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France

954 Louis IV, of overseas, King of France, dies

928 Louis III, the Blind Proveneaals king of Lombardije/Germany, dies at 48

905 Holy Roman Catholic emperor Louis III captured

882 Louis III, King of France (879-82), dies at 19

882 Louis II/III the Younger, German king (876-82), dies

881 Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings

879 Louis III, crowned King of France

879 Louis II, the stutterer, King of France (877-79), dies

876 Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare

876 Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies

875 Louis II, king of Italy/emperor of France, dies at about 50

870 Kings Charles the Bare and Louis the German divide Lutherans

860 Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German and Lotharius II

846 Louis II, the Stutterer, King of France, 877-79

843 Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German and Charles the Bare divide France

843 Judith, French empress/2nd wife of Louis de Vrome, dies

842 Charles II and Louis the German sign treaty

841 Battle at Fontenay: Louis and Charles beat their brother Lotharius I

840 Louis de Vrome, emperor of French rich, dies

833 Louis, king of Austria, crowned

816 Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity

813 Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor

801 Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona


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