[3] November 21, 1972: Built at a cost of $250 million, Kansas City International Airport opens, featuring an innovative "Drive to Your Gate" design.
[3] November 21, 1972: Built at a cost of $250 million, Kansas City International Airport opens, featuring an innovative "Drive to Your Gate" design.
[5] November 4, 1916: Walter Cronkite, who will kick off his journalism career in Kansas City, Missouri and later become a longstanding anchorman for the CBS Evening News and "the most trusted man in America," is born in St. Joseph, Missouri.
[7] October 26, 1887: The unfinished Warder Grand Theater opens with a production of Othello starring Edwin Booth; the determined audience sits in borrowed chairs without a roof or heat.
[9] October 23, 1864: Confederate and Union forces battle in Westport, on the grounds of the present-day Country Club Plaza, resulting in a Union Army victory when the Confederate forces flee south.
[11] October 13, 1913: The last operating cable car [12] in Kansas City completed its final trip along 12th Street [13], ending thirty years of cable car dominance in the city’s public transportation.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/This+Week+in+Kansas+City+History/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/plane-speaking
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/plane-speaking#comments
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/and-thats-way-it-was
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/7249#comment-form
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/show-must-go
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/2686#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/gettysburg-west
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/gettysburg-west#comments
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/decline-incline
[12] http://localhistory.kclibrary.org/u?/Montgomery,2598
[13] http://localhistory.kclibrary.org/u?/Montgomery,7502
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/2571#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=12
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=8
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=9
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=10
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=11
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=14
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=15
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=16