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The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local, state, and federal funds totaling $15 million (equivalent to $509 million in 2023) [ 1 ] were used to finance the event.
1904 – St. Louis, Missouri, United States – Louisiana Purchase Exposition [71] (also called Louisiana Purchase International Exposition and Olympic Games): 1904 Summer Olympics; 1904 – Cape Town, South Africa – Cape Town Industrial Exhibition; 1905 – Portland, Oregon, United States – Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition [71]
St. Louis Fair Grounds, site of annual Exposition, in an 1874 print. The Saint Louis Exposition or St. Louis Expo was a series of annual agricultural and technical fairs held in St. Louis' Fairgrounds Park, from the 1850s to 1902. In 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a major World's Fair, was held in St. Louis, Missouri. The annual ...
St. Louis Exposition can refer to either: Saint Louis Exposition (annual fair) Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904)
1888 illustration 1901 postcard. St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall was an indoor exposition hall, music hall and arena in St. Louis, Missouri from 1883 to 1907.. Three national presidential nominating conventions were held in three separate buildings in or near the complex between 1888 and 1904 including the 1888 Democratic National Convention, 1896 Republican National Convention, and 1904 ...
July 1 – The third Modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis, Missouri. [20] July 23 – In St. Louis, Missouri, the ice cream cone is invented during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. August 7 – Eden train wreck in Colorado: a bridge is washed away by a flash flood as a train crosses, resulting in at least 88 deaths.
Either the Philippine Constabulary Band or the Band of the Philippine Scouts, leading the Philippine Scouts during a march-in at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition The band's first overseas performance came just three years after its formation when it accompanied the Philippine Scouts to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 in St ...
In 1890, St. Louis attempted to host the World's Columbian Exposition, but the fair was awarded to Chicago, which hosted the exposition in 1893. [78] In 1899, delegates from states that had been part of the Louisiana Purchase met in St. Louis, selecting it as the site of a world's fair celebrating the centennial of the purchase. [ 79 ]