Missouri History Timeline
1950-1999: Modernization
1952: Leonor K. Sullivan becomes Missouri’s first female U.S. Representative.
1954: Riots at the Missouri State Penitentiary.
1965: The Gateway Arch in St. Louis was completed.
1967: Kansas City Chiefs player in Super Bowl I.
1968: Race riots in Kansas City in response to the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1972: Mary Gant became Missouri’s first female state senator.
1977: Gwen B. Giles became Missouri’s first African-American female state senator.
1980: Desegregation of schools begins in Missouri.
1982: Dioxin Is discovered in Times Beach.
1983: Scott Joplin is awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
1984: Margaret Kelly becomes the first female Missouri statewide office holder when she is named State Auditor.
1985: I-70 Series Between the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals
1987: Whiteman Air Force Base near Sedalia becomes the official home to the B-2 Stealth Bomber.
1987: Ann Covington became the first woman appointed to the Missouri Supreme Court.
1992: Riverboat gambling is approved in Missouri.
1993: The Great Flood of 1993.
1993: The internet arrives in Missouri.
1996: – Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher delivers a major address at Westminster College in Fulton.
1996: Sporting Kansas City begins play.
1998: Mark McGwire sets the home run record with St. Louis Cardinals.
1999: Kansas City Union Station reopens.
1999: Payne Stewart of Springfield dies in plane crash.
1999: Pope John Paul II visits St. Louis.
