– Missouri Athletic Club founded. 1904 Buckingham Hotel built. Inside Inn an hotel built of wood. April: St. Louis World's Fair opens; Saint Louis Art Museum built. City hosts 1904 Summer Olympics and 1904 Democratic National Convention. Louisiana Purchase Exposition held. 1905 May Department Store relocates to St. Louis. Shaare Zedek Synagogue founded. 1906 Racquet Club of St. Louis founded. Statue of Louis IX of France unveiled in Forest Park. 1908 Aero Club of St. Louis incorporated. Aeronautic Supply Company in business. St. Louis Coliseum re-built. Fairground Park established. 1909 – October: City centennial. 1910 – Population: 687,029. 1911 Urban League branch established. Famous-Barr (shop) in business. Benoist Flying School established. 1912 Ethical Society building constructed. St. Louis Argus newspaper begins publication. Missouri Peace Society founded. 1913 – Henry Kiel becomes mayor. 1914 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis begins operating. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People branch established. Railway Exchange Building constructed. "Pageant and Masque of Saint Louis" held. St. Louis Zoo incorporated. Barnes Hospital opened. New charter adopted reducong the elective officers to terms of four years. Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis completed. 1915 – Junior League of St. Louis organized. 1917 MacArthur Bridge opens. St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre (The Muny) opens 1918 Poro beauty school opens. 1919 League of Women Voters of St. Louis organized. City Hospital No. 2 begins operating. Pine Street YMCA opens. 1920 Chase Hotel built. Population: 772,897. 1921 WEW radio begins broadcasting. American Association of University Women chapter active. 1925 – St. Louis Theater opens. 1926 Southwestern Bell Building constructed. New Masonic Temple built. 1927 Racquet Club of St. Louis funds Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis airplane. Tornado. B.F. Mahoney Aircraft Corporation in business. 1928 – St. Louis American newspaper begins publication. 1929 Fox Theatre opens. St. Louis Arena opened. 1930 – Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport dedicated. 1931 – Rombauer's Joy of Cooking published. 1933 Firmin Desloge Hospital opens. Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser Clydesdales established. 1935 – Neighborhood Gardens (housing) opens. 1937 – Floral Conservatory built in Forest Park. 1939 1939 St. Louis smog. Oldani's restaurant in business. 1940 – Population: 816,048. 1942 – George Hudson Orchestra debuts. 1943 – Campbell House Museum opens. 1947 – Congress of Racial Equality chapter organized. 1948 – U.S. Supreme Court decides Shelley v. Kraemer lawsuit. 1949 – Fairground Park riot. 1950 – Population: 856,796. 1951 – Veterans' Memorial Bridge built. 1954 KETC television begins broadcasting.