A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
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September 8
| 1884 |
A tornado moves through Hennepin, Ramsey, and Washington Counties, killing nine. White Bear Lake is hardest hit. |
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| 1906 |
The celebrated trotting horse Dan Patch paces a mile in 1:55 at the State Fair, setting the world's record. |
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| 1919 |
The Minnesota legislature ratifies the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, granting women the right to vote. Prior to this federal amendment, the state's women had been permitted to vote only in elections for school officials and library officials, since 1876 and 1898, respectively. Women had been permitted to vote for presidential electors since March 24, 1919, but a presidential election allowing them to exercise that right was not held until 1920. |
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| 1975 |
Deborah Montgomery is the first woman admitted to the St. Paul police academy. She eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant. |
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| 1991 |
Philanthropist Eleanor Lawler Pillsbury dies at age 104. She had been involved with the Women's Association of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, Minnesota Planned Parenthood, and the Friends of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. |
 Watt Munisotaram—the only Cambodian Buddhist temple in Minnesota and the largest in the US—sits on a forty-acre rural site about thirty minutes south of St. Paul. Although its founding organization, the Minnesota Cambodian Buddhist Society, was established in 1982, it was not until 2007 that members consecrated a temple on forty acres of their own land. |
 World War I took a toll on Die Volkszeitung, St. Paul’s German-language newspaper. The long-time editor, Fritz Bergmeier, was sent to an internment camp. The paper lost its state printing contracts. Profits dwindled. After the war the paper’s owner, Clara Bergmeier, wanted to sell but found no buyers. This created an opportunity for an opportunist and con man, Clarence Cochran, to engineer a massive financial fraud aimed at German immigrants. |
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