[3] October 13, 1887: President Grover Cleveland looks on as decorated floats, costumed horsemen, and an elephant march in downtown during the first Priests of Pallas parade, an event that will remain a Kansas City tradition until the 1920s.
[3] October 13, 1887: President Grover Cleveland looks on as decorated floats, costumed horsemen, and an elephant march in downtown during the first Priests of Pallas parade, an event that will remain a Kansas City tradition until the 1920s.
[5] October 4, 1814: Alexander Majors, who will become a successful overland freighter on the Santa Fe Trail and a founder of the Pony Express in 1860, is born near Franklin, Kentucky.
[7] September 28, 1953: Bobby Greenlease, 6-year-old son of Kansas City Cadillac dealer Robert Greenlease, is kidnapped from his school and murdered.
[9] September 23, 1923: The Bennie Moten Orchestra makes the first ever recording of Kansas City style jazz and blues, a musical style that would eventually come to dominate the jazz scene in the 1930s and 1940s.
[11] September 17, 1964: Twenty thousand fans gather in Municipal Stadium to hear the Beatles, who are paid $150,000 for the 31-minute concert. Unheard of in a Beatles performance, the turnout is nearly 15,000 below the venue’s maximum capacity.
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/we-play-pallas
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/6993#comment-form
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/majors-efforts
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/6890#comment-form
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/days-shock-and-sorrow
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/days-shock-and-sorrow#comments
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/all-jazz
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/all-jazz#comments
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/cant-buy-him-love
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/2216#comment-form
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=6
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=3
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=4
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=5
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=8
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=9
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=10
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=11
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=16