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unusual facts about Baton Rouge, LA



1983 Summer Special Olympics

The sixth Special Olympics Summer World Games were held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on the campus of Louisiana State University from July 12–18, 1983.

2010 Soweto Open – Doubles

George Bastl and Chris Guccione were the reigning champions, however Bastl retired in 2009 and Guccione chose to participate in Baton Rouge instead.

AdvoCare V100 Bowl

Independence Stadium was considered as a possible playing site for the New Orleans Saints during the 2005 National Football League season due to Hurricane Katrina, but Shreveport eventually lost out to the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, and Louisiana State University's Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge.

Albert Lindley Lee

In the last month of the war, he led a raid against Clinton near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and defeated a weak Confederate force there.

Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway

Yoakum's plan envisioned using the Rock Island and Frisco, together with several railroads to be built in Texas and Louisiana and now known as the Gulf Coast Lines, to form a continuous line of railroad extending from Chicago, St. Louis and Memphis to Baton Rouge, Houston, Brownsville, Tampico and Mexico City.

Cleveland Dear

After early education in country schools, Dear graduated from Louisiana State University and its Paul M. Hebert Law Center, both in Baton Rouge.

Dan Reneau

Reneau was succeeded by Leslie K. Guice, a Tech vice-president, whose appointment was confirmed on December 4, 2012, by the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors in a special meeting in Baton Rouge.

David de Berry

Originally commissioned for the Sacramento Theatre Company, the work has been widely seen, with perennial productions in Rochester, New York, Denver, Colorado, Dallas, Texas, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Phoenix, Arizona, among other communities.

Dud Lastrapes

Republicans have since served as mayor of Shreveport (Hazel Beard) and Baton Rouge (Bobby R. Simpson), but no Republican has won in New Orleans, Lake Charles, or Monroe or has been directly elected in Alexandria.

Eric Ravussin

Eric Ravussin is a professor in Human Physiology and the Director of the Nutritional Obesity Research Center at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Formosa Plastics Corp

That subsidiary has, in turn, created four wholly owned chemical manufacturing subsidiaries in Delaware City, Delaware, Illiopolis, Illinois, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Point Comfort, Texas.

Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge

The bridge was dedicated by Governor David C. Treen and Bishop Stanley Ott of Baton Rouge and opened to traffic on October 8, 1983 connecting Louisiana Highway 18 on the West Bank and Louisiana Highway 48 on the East Bank.

History of the School of Advanced Military Studies

Its officers also deployed to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to assist the military's Joint Task Force and the Federal Emergency Management Agency after Hurricane Katrina.

Jimmy Hayes

Republican Louis E. "Woody" Jenkins of Baton Rouge and Democrat Mary Landrieu of New Orleans then advanced to the tightly contested general election, which Landrieu narrowly won.

Jordy Hultberg

He also hosts a local radio show in Baton Rouge, LA called "The Jordy Hultberg Show" on 1590 AM in Baton Rouge from 7-9am Monday through Friday and 103.7 in Lafayette from 2-4 PM Mon - Fri.

Ledell Eackles

One of Eackles' sons, Ledell Eackles Jr., won two state championships at Woodlawn High School in Baton Rouge and went on to play college basketball for Campbell College.

Lee Feinswog

Lee Feinswog (b. August 12, 1954, in West Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American author and journalist noted for being the executive producer and host of the TV shows Sports Monday and Sports 225 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Louis Cataldie

Dr. Cataldie was also involved in running both the Find Family National Call Center, AKA the Family Assistance Center, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as well as the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team morgue in Carville, Louisiana.

Louisiana Highway 408

From the west, LA 408 begins along Harding Boulevard at the entrance of Southern University in Baton Rouge, one mile (1.6 km) west of US 61 (Scenic Highway).

Louisiana Highway 426

From the west, LA 426 begins at an intersection with LA 73 (Jefferson Highway) in Baton Rouge.

Major Applewhite

Recruited from Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana by then Texas coach John Mackovic, he was later coached by Mack Brown.

Matthew Arbuckle

He was transferred to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he headed the military district but commanded no troops directly.

Melissa Springer

The exhibit traveled from the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama to Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina; and the Louisiana Center for Arts and Sciences in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

New Orleans Jesters

The on-field highlights included a 3-0 win over new Louisiana rivals Baton Rouge in late May, a pair of victories over the other new divisional team Mississippi Brilla, and an absolutely astonishing 8-1 annihilation of the Austin Lightning at home in July, in which Ged Quinn and Brandon Chagnard scored two goals each.

Port Hudson State Historic Site

The Port Hudson State Historic Site is located on the Mississippi River north of Baton Rouge near Port Hudson, Louisiana.

Raymond Laborde

Laborde ran with the slate headed by former New Orleans Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison, a ticket which included later state Senator Claude B. Duval of Houma for lieutenant governor and State Representative Jack M. Dyer of Baton Rouge for insurance commissioner.

Share Our Wealth

Any Presidential ambitions which Long might have had were cut short when he was shot by an assassin on September 8, 1935, in Baton Rouge; he died two days later on September 10, 1935.

Sigi Lemmerer

Originally from Wörschach, Austria, Sigi Lemmerer has lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and given concert tours through Europe, the USA, and Asia.

The Second EP

The Second EP is the first album released by Baton Rouge, Louisiana based indie pop group The Eames Era.

This Week in Louisiana Agriculture

This Week in Louisiana Agriculture, or TWILA, is an agricultural television program produced by the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Virgil Orr

Six years earlier, he had contributed to the unsuccessful Republican senatorial candidate Woody Jenkins of Baton Rouge, with whom Orr served in the legislature.

WLKY

It is one of the few CBS affiliates that airs The Young and the Restless on a tape delay (airing at 4 p.m., leading into the 5 p.m. newscast); fellow CBS affiliates WAFB/Baton Rouge, WRAL-TV/Raleigh and KMOV/St. Louis also run the soap opera in the 4 p.m. timeslot.


see also

Diane Falkenhagen

"Made in the Shade," Baton Rouge Gallery in City Park, Baton Rouge, LA (Honorable Mention)

Old State Capitol

Old Louisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge, LA, listed on the NRHP in Louisiana