A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
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May 18
| 1905 |
Five doctors at St. Paul's Ancker Hospital strike to protest the tyrannical ways of hospital director Dr. Arthur Ancker, who had suspended Dr. William Frost on "unsubstantiated grounds." The striking doctors were later dishonorably discharged from their duties. On May 15, 1923, Ancker died of a heart attack while screaming at two surgeons he accused of not properly washing their hands. |
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| 1931 |
Minneapolis-born aviator Charles "Speed" Holman is killed during an air show in Omaha. A pioneer of aviation, his best-known aerial stunt was looping, and he had won the US air speed trials in 1930. At his funeral, four 109th Air Squadron planes flew in the first recorded Missing Man formation, with a vacant spot reserved in Holman's memory. Holman Field at the St. Paul Downtown Airport is named in his honor. |
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| 2015 |
The Saint Paul Saints play their first game at the new CHS Stadium in St. Paul's Lowertown District. During the exhibition match, they face off against the Sioux City Explorers. |
 In 1935, Minneapolis was rocked by radical populist protests as workers responded to the Great Depression, unemployment, and anti-union employers. Industrial unions galvanized discontent and challenged employers, craft unions, and the Farmer-Labor Party. A year after the Teamsters union led combat in the market district of Minneapolis, another union struck eight foundries, including the Flour City Ornamental Iron Works on the city’s south side. |
 Mabel Simis Ulrich was a public health educator, physician, author, and public figure whose pioneering work in sex education propelled her onto multiple public health commissions in Minneapolis. She contributed to the cultural scene in Minneapolis through a bookstore that she owned, and headed the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) in Minnesota under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s. |
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