A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
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April 22
| 1818 |
Cadwallader C. Washburn is born in Livermore, Maine. A pioneer in the state's flour-milling industry, Washburn would build his first mill at St. Anthony Falls in 1866 and his Washburn-Crosby Company would market Gold Medal flour. He died in 1882. |
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| 1903 |
Alexander Ramsey dies at age eighty-eight. During his distinguished political career, Ramsey served as Minnesota's first territorial governor and second state governor, negotiated major land sales from the Dakota and Ojibwe, and served in the U.S. Senate and as secretary of war. A founder of the Minnesota Historical Society, he was its president at the time of his death. |
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| 1911 |
Governor Adolph O. Eberhart signs a law abolishing the death penalty in Minnesota. |
 The Church of St. Columba in St. Paul’s Hamline-Midway neighborhood is the only Minnesota work by the Chicago architect Francis Barry Byrne. Architectural historian and critic Larry Millett calls it “a high point of modern church architecture in the Twin Cities.” |
 In the fall of 1925, a series of six signs advertising Burma-Shave, a new brushless shaving cream, appeared for the first time along highway 65 from Minneapolis to Albert Lea and on highway 61 to Red Wing. The signs began an advertising phenomenon using clever rhyming jingles that lasted into the 1960s, including: “Your shaving brush / has had its day, / so why not / shave the modern way / with Burma-Shave?” |
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