1. In 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition reached present-day St. Charles, Missouri, marking the first point west of the Mississippi River that the expedition had reached.

2. On June 11, 1831, James H. McBride, a prominent Missouri lawyer and politician, was born in Callaway County. McBride served as the state attorney general and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

3. In 1927, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia. Styron spent much of his life in Roxbury, Connecticut, but attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, which is located just across the border from Missouri.

4. On June 11, 1962, Missouri Governor John Wooden signed the Missouri Civil Rights Act, making Missouri one of the first states to enact comprehensive civil rights legislation in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement.

5. In 1999, the St. Louis Cardinals retired Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson's number 45. Gibson, who was born in Omaha, Nebraska, spent his entire 17-year Major League Baseball career with the Cardinals, winning two National League Most Valuable Player Awards and two Cy Young Awards. Gibson passed away in 2020.