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November 30
| 1843 |
Martha G. Ripley is born in Lowell, Vermont. A crusader for public health measures, Dr. Ripley would establish Minneapolis's Maternity Hospital in 1886. A memorial to her was dedicated in the state capitol in 1939. |
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| 1912 |
Gordon Parks is born in Fort Scott, Kansas. He would move to St. Paul as a teenager and eventually develop a career as a photographer, writer, filmmaker, composer, and musician. He would work for the Farm Services Administration, become a war photographer in 1943, and be the first African American on Life magazine's staff. His movies include The Learning Tree, based on his autobiography. |
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| 1960 |
Novelist Ernest Hemingway is admitted to St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, where he undergoes shock treatment for depression. A few days later, he commits suicide in Idaho. |
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| 1967 |
Minnesota senator Eugene J. McCarthy announces he will challenge President Lyndon B. Johnson for the 1968 Democratic nomination for president. The University of Minnesota Young Democrats chapter becomes the first in the nation to back McCarthy, who despite early successes does not earn his party's nod. |
 In 1904, Charles W. Malchow was a professor of medicine at Hamline University Medical School who had studied abroad in Germany and England. He had a happy marriage, a medical practice in downtown Minneapolis, and a house near Lake of the Isles. He was young, handsome, successful, and ambitious. Then he went to prison. |
 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. |
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