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November 23
| 1910 |
Pennington County is created. It commemorates Edmund Pennington, president of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie (Soo Line) Railroad. |
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| 1973 |
Senator and former presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey appears as the "Man of the Week" on NBC's Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. The "Rat Pack" crooner turned comic introduces Humphrey as a "man who has spent a lifetime in politics with an unblemished record; he never took a bribe and never spied on his opponents; he never committed a crime; which is why he's here tonight and not in the White House." |
 When the Fifth Infantry Regiment came west in 1819 to build a fort on the bluff where the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers flow together, some of the soldiers brought their wives and daughters with them. Women and girls made up around 20 percent of the fort’s population from the time of the first census in 1849 until at least 1900. These women included the wives and daughters of officers but also lower-class women (wives and daughters of enlisted men, as well as their servants). |
 Humans have always been mobile creatures. Although some claim to prefer sedentary activities, most actually find it difficult to stay in one place for too long. Minnesotans are no different in this regard from anyone else. They vary only in the particulars. People have moved into, out of, and within the borders of the land we now call Minnesota for centuries. Their movements—and the ways they have moved—constitute the history of transportation in the state. |
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