October 9 1765 The French Kings last representative in America, Commandant Louis St. Ange de Bellerive, handed over Fort Chatres to the British. The British now controlled the East bank of the Mississippi. Bellerive moved his command to St. Louis, where he remained the civil authority until the Spanish took over five years later. Many settlers in Illinois, leery of British rule, followed Bellerive to St. Louis. A park, street, country club and St. Louis County municipality are named in his honor. 1934 The Gashouse Gang Cardinals clinched the 1934 world series with an 11-0 win over Detroit. In the 6th inning, Joe Medwick slid hard into Tiger third baseman Marv Owen after a triple. When he returned to the field, angry Detroit fans pelted him with debris. Commissioner Kenesesaw Mountain Landis ordered Medwick removed from the game for his own safety. 1944 The Cardinals won The Streetcar Series, defeating the Browns four games to two. The Brownies hit just .138 against the powerhouse pitching staff of the Cardinals, led by Mort Cooper, Max Lanier and Ted Wilkes. There was no celebration on the streets after the game, prompting J. Roy Stockton to write in the Post-Dispatch that there was one problem with having the World Series in the same city. “One of the teams has to lose.” 1954 Actor Scott Bakula was born in St. Louis. The 1973 graduate of Kirkwood High School starred as Sam Beckett in the NBC science fiction series Quantum Leap from 1989 until 1993. He went on to play the role of Captain Jonathan Archer in Enterprise, the fifth incarnation of the Star Trek series. 1955 South Vietnamese Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem awarded his countrys highest honor to Navy Lieutenant (j.g) Thomas Dooley of St. Louis. Dooley was honored for his work in aiding refugees in North Vietnam before the area was turned over the Communists as part of the truce. 1958 The Cardinals left on a goodwill tour of Japan. KMOX broadcast seven of the games, becoming the first radio station to broadcast complete baseball games from outside the continental United States. 1969 Harry Caray was fired as the voice of the Cardinals. Rumors were sweeping the city that Harry was having an affair with Susan Busch, the wife of August Busch the Third. As a parting shot to the brewery that day, Harry hoisted a can of Schlitz for the TV cameras.
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