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Toledo Time Travels is your source for the Toledo story—past, present, and future. We host engaging conversations about local history venues, long heard about but rarely seen spaces, Glass City artifacts, and historical preservation.
1901: The Toledo Computing Scale and Cash Register Company is incorporated, later called Toledo Scale, and known for its slogan: "No Springs, Honest Weight." 1949: The first practical rectangular TV tube is announced in Toledo. For more Toledo ...…
1933: Club owner and bootlegger, Jack Kennedy is murdered on Edgewater Drive in Point Place. It was the culmination of Mr. Kennedy's Prohibition-era battles with the Licavoli gang, led by Yonnie Licavoli. For more Toledo history, visit ...…
1877: David Stanley Smith, American composer (Merrymount) is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1880: George Mullin, baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers; no-hitter 1912) is born in Toledo. 1919: In what Jimmy Breslin wrote was the birth of the "roaring twenties," Jack Dempsey meets Jess Willard in the "fight of the century" in an 80,000-seat ...…
1909: Opening day at Swayne Field, Toledo's tenth home to organized baseball since 1883. Noah H. Swayne, the donor of the land, hoped to change Toledo's poor baseball image by constructing the finest ballpark the minors had ever known. Swayne Field ...…
1934: Jamie Farr, actor (Klinger on M*A*S*H, AfterMASH) is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1972: Burt Reynolds opens with Lois Nettleton in "The Rainmaker" at Ken Shaw's Summer Star Theatre at the Toledo Masonic Auditorium. It was during this theatre run in Toledo that Reynolds stopped by Tony Packo's and casually signed a bun to start a ...…
1873: The city of Toledo offered a 32-acre parcel to the Milburn Wagon Company in Auburndale, a newly established western suburb just west of the city line. Purchased for a discounted $30,000, the Monroe Street property was located adjacent to the ...…
1976: Mother Teresa speaks to an overflow crowd of 2,700 people at the Masonic Auditorium. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1942: Actress Marlene Dietrich leads a Jeep Day Rally in downtown Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1946: Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, is born in Toledo. After attending St. Ursula Academy in Toledo, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968 and completed a Master of Urban ...…
1879: Roger Bresnahan, American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher, outfielder and manager (St. Louis Cardinals; invented shin guards and batting helmets after getting beaned in the head ) is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit ...…
1928: Kate Wilhelm, American fiction author (Hugo Award: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang) is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1910: Blanche Scott arrives in Toledo in a customized Overland runabout, fitted with its own built-in wardrobe trunk and toilet, on her way to San Francisco to become the second woman to complete a cross-country trip by automobile. For more Toledo ...…
1934: Auto-Lite and FLU 18384 reached a tentative agreement settling the Auto-Lite Strike. The union won a 5 percent wage increase, and a minimum wage of 35 cents an hour. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1918: Herb Shriner, American humorist and TV host (Herb Shriner Show) is born in Toledo.…
1905: Joseph C. Harsch, American newscaster (Background) and author (''At the Hinge of History: A Reporter's Story'') is born in Toledo.…
1934: National Guard troops guarding the Auto-Lite plant during the 1934 Battle of Toledo, fired into the crowd while trying to push them away from the plant, up Chestnut Street—killing 27-year-old Frank Hubay (shot four times) and 20-year-old ...…
On this day... 1934: The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo," a five-day melee between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1916: The Kiwanis Club of Toledo is chartered. Known today as the Downtown Kiwanis Club of Toledo. 1947: John Marshall "Jack" Ford is born in Springfield, Ohio. After obtaining his Master's degree in Public Administration and his law degree from ...…
1931: Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (Put Another Nickel In) is born in Toledo. 1975: The Tiedtke's Department Store drew thousands to downtown Toledo when the store known for its circus-like atmosphere and the smell of its Parkwood ...…
1813: On the bloodiest day of the first siege of Fort Meigs, nearly 600 men are lost to a combined force of British regulars, Canadian militia, and Native American warriors. Despite this major loss to the Americans however, many Native Americans ...…
1966: WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo (ABC) begins broadcasting For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1813: British artillery opened fire on Fort Meigs in what would become known as the First Siege of Fort Meigs. The bombardment carried on for five days, but the Americans within the fort held on until reinforcements, in the form of 1,200 Kentucky ...…
1974: Eric Kripke, American television writer, director and producer (Supernatural) is born in Toledo. 1930: Directors of the Libbey-Owens Glass Company and Edward Ford Plate Glass Company meet in New York to approve their merger into the ...…
1833: the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad was chartered in the Territory of Michigan to run from the former Port Lawrence, Michigan (now Toledo), northwest to Adrian on the River Raisin. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1901: After the success of its first exhibit in a rented room in the Gardner Building in January, the Toledo Museum of Art is officially founded. Today, what started out with 120 members and a collection consisting of two paintings is considered one ...…
1854: Edward Drummond Libbey is born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Regarded as the father of the glass industry in Toledo, Libbey moved his father's glass company to Toledo and renamed it the Libbey Glass Company in 1888. For more Toledo history, ...…
1944: Dennis Russell Davies, American conductor and composer is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1910: Pope Pius X erects the Toledo Diocese in territory taken from the Diocese of Cleveland. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
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