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June 27
| 1928 |
Rudolph G."Rudy" Perpich is born in Carson Lake, near Hibbing. The Iron Ranger would become one of Minnesota's most colorful governors, serving from 1976 to 1979 and 1983 to 1991. He would send National Guard troops to Austin to quell tensions during the Hormel strike in 1986, and he would sign a law returning the state's drinking age to twenty-one. During his terms the state lottery would be established and education heavily funded. He died on November 21, 1995. |
| 1975 |
The taxicab drivers of the Twin Cities split from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to establish their own union, the Guild of Taxi Drivers and Associated Workers. |
| 1977 |
Heiress Elizabeth Congdon and her nurse are murdered at Glensheen mansion in Duluth. In a sensational trial, Congdon's son-in-law, Roger Caldwell, is convicted of the murders. New evidence in the case sets him free a year later but incriminates his wife Marjorie. Acquitted of these murders but found guilty in two arson cases, Marjorie is now in an Arizona prison. |
 During World War II, prisoners of war helped relieve a severe labor shortage in many rural areas of the U.S. In Clay County, Minnesota, POWs worked on farms to plant, tend, and harvest the crops that otherwise might have been lost. |
 Constructed in 1884, the Anoka–Champlin Bridge 4380 was the first structural span of the Mississippi River between Anoka and Champlin. A 1920s renovation strengthened the bridge, replacing the original’s stone materials with steel. |
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