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April 13
| 1849 |
The army officially occupies Fort Gaines, later renamed Fort Ripley. The post had been built to monitor the Ho-Chunk people (Winnebago) at Long Prairie, and to maintain peace between Ojibwe and Dakota bands. |
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| 1907 |
Harold E. Stassen is born in West St. Paul. Elected governor at age thirty-two, he would be the youngest individual to hold that office, from 1939 to 1943. He would resign as governor to serve as lieutenant commander in the navy during World War II. His long and distinguished career in public service would unfortunately be overshadowed by a string of defeats as he sought the Republican nomination for president. He died in 2001. |
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| 1967 |
Rod Carew plays his first major league baseball game with the Minnesota Twins, hitting a single. |
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| 1993 |
The North Stars professional hockey team plays its final game in the Met Center against the Chicago Blackhawks, losing 3-2. The team moves to Dallas later that year. |
 A cornerstone of the prison labor system for almost eighty years, the binder twine factory at the Minnesota State Prison employed thousands of inmates who produced over a billion pounds of cordage for regional farmers. The twine-manufacturing industry began at the original facility and continued at a custom-built factory on a new site after the prison moved in 1914. The factory closed in 1970. |
 The Minnesota Music Hall of Fame in New Ulm offers a wide-ranging display of artifacts, mementos, and photos acquired since it recognized its first class of inductees in 1989. It pays tribute to music performers and artists who shaped Minnesota’s music scene in the mid-twentieth century, with a focus on the polka groups and dance orchestras that were popular around New Ulm at that time. |
Made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008. Administered by the Minnesota Historical Society.
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