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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.
1962: Suzee Pai, actress (Big Trouble in Little China) is born in Toledo. After appearing on Star Search in 1984, Pai began her career as a fashion model in New York City before joining the Liberty Bells cheerleading squad for the Philadelphia ...…
1885: Otto Kruger, actor (Suspense radio show, host of Lux Video Theater, High Noon, and Perry Mason) is born in Toledo. Originally a Broadway matinee idol, Kruger established a niche as a charming villain in films, such as Hitchcock's Saboteur. He ...…
1904: Micheal Owens patents a machine that automatically manufactures glass bottles. His invention revolutionizes the glass industry and creates tremendous growth in the soft drink and beer industries, as these firms now have a less expensive way of ...…
1864: Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth speak to a packed house at College Hall on Summit Street in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1967: Sean O'Neill, US Olympic table tennis player (1992 Olympics) is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1880: Jumbo the Elephant makes his Toledo debut. The giant circus performer was showcased at the beginning of each performance in Ring Number One, right after the Triumphal Pageant and Grant Entrée. For more Toledo history, visit ...…
1928: On July 23, 1928, Toledo throws a one-of-a-kind welcome celebration for Amelia Earhart, just one month after she became an international celebrity for being the first woman passenger to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia Earhart (center) ...…
1813: British and American Indian forces begin a one-week second siege of Fort Meigs by using subterfuge to draw the Americans out of the fort. The plan fails. 1825: Work begins at Middletown on the Miami and Erie Canal. The state legislature only ...…
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.…
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 ...…
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 ...…
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 ...…
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 ...…
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, ...…
1867: The Ohio Legislature creates a full-time police force in Toledo and the city marshals are released from their duties. 1897: Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones is elected Mayor of Toledo. 1957: The lake freighter "Champlain" is torn loose from its ...…
1908: The 524-foot lake freighter Fred G. Hartwell is launched at Toledo Shipbuilding Company. The 514 feet long, 58 feet wide steel freighter was originally owned by Mutual Steamship Co. of Duluth, Minnesota. Mutual sold the vessel in 1915 to ...…
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