THIS DAY IN MISSOURI HISTORY - • March 20, 1811 – Birthday of perhaps Missouri’s greatest artist, George Caleb Bingham from Franklin, Arrow Rock, and St. Louis, MO. Read more about him in Tales From Missouri and the Heartland. • March 20, 1839 – Joseph Smith wrote his famous two-part, twenty-nine page Letter from the Liberty Jail. • March 20, 1860 – The Missouri legislature granted a charter to the Tebo & Neosho Railroad Company, permitting the construction of a railroad between Neosho, Missouri and a point along the Pacific route. That point would grow to be Sedalia. • March 20, 1875 – The Legislature rejected an amnesty proposal for the James and Younger gang members. • March 20, 1924 – Lee’s Summit’s Memorial Hall was packed when Rev. Carl C. Waler, an evangelist-healer, who was holding a twenty-two week series of meetings in Kansas City, delivered an address on “Americanism.” When the people arrived at the hall, they found Klansmen in full regalia. It was a KKK meeting! Surprise! • March 20, 1943 – St, Louis fire equipment got windshields and windshield wipers. • March 20, 1944 – Spring Training began for the St. Louis Browns. And yes, they did go south for the training – To Cape Girardeau. • March 20, 1955 – An airliner landing at Springfield’s airport “shudders” then falls from the sky killing several and injuring everyone on board.
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