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A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
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October 25
| 1892 |
James H. Burrell becomes the first African American member of the St. Paul police force, and the first documented African American police officer in Minnesota. |
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| 1924 |
Charles Evans Hughes, secretary of state and future Supreme Court justice, gives a speech in which he praises President Calvin Coolidge, blasts third-party politics, and condemns corrupt politicians, in front of a crowd of 10,000 in St. Paul. |
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| 1941 |
Novelist Anne Tyler is born in Minneapolis. She would publish many popular books, including The Accidental Tourist and Breathing Lessons, for which she would be awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1989. |
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| 1987 |
In the seventh game of the World Series, the Twins beat the St. Louis Cardinals with a score of 4-2, winning the series 4-3. |
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| 1991 |
Meng Kruy Ung, founder of the first Cambodian refugee center in Minnesota, dies. Born in Prey Veng, Cambodia, Ung immigrated to the United States in 1984 and later established the Refugee and Immigrant Resource Center in Farmington. In 1993 the center would merge with the Khmer Association of Minnesota to form the United Cambodian Association of Minnesota, offering cultural, legal, and employment services to refugees and immigrants. |
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| 2002 |
While running for a third term in office, United States Senator for Minnesota Paul Wellstone dies in a plane crash with his wife and daughter. He was elected to the Senate in 1990 as a liberal Democrat. After his death, his surviving sons and former campaign manager would go on to create The Wellstone Action progressive advocacy organization in their family's honor. |
 One of the most credible UFO (unidentified flying object) encounters in American history unfolded in Minnesota in 1979. Marshall County Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson never claimed that he saw aliens or spaceships—merely that a force he could not identify collided with his car, cracking its windshield and leaving him unconscious. Johnson’s reasonable testimony and the evidence left behind on his vehicle made the event a popular case among those who study unidentified aerial phenomena. |
 More than 1,000 left-wing protesters gathered at the Minnesota Capitol on April 4, 1937, to support Governor Elmer Benson as he tried to persuade the legislature to pass a $17 million aid package for the unemployed. About 200 of the protesters stayed overnight in the senate chamber after someone jimmied open the doors with a knife, and two organizers were later convicted of the gross misdemeanor of preventing senators from assembling. |
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