A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
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May 20
| 1882 |
Ten thousand trout and salmon are planted in Rice County's Cedar Lake. |
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| 1902 |
The State Federation of Afro-American Women's Clubs is organized in St. Paul, with the goal of uniting clubs for better communication and productivity. Representatives from clubs in St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth attend the meeting. |
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| 1927 |
Little Falls native Charles A. Lindbergh begins his famous trans-Atlantic flight to Paris, which takes thirty-three and one-half hours. |
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| 1989 |
The forty-two-mile Root River State Trail opens near Lanesboro. The trail winds through the bluffs of southeastern Minnesota along the site of an abandoned railroad. |
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| 2007 |
The Ham Lake fire is finally contained after burning through 75,000 acres of the Superior National Forest and Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. |
 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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