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.

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