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A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
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February 26
| 1853 |
Edward D. Neill obtains a charter for the Baldwin School, which would become St. Paul's Macalester College. |
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| 1857 |
Territorial delegate Henry M. Rice succeeds in lobbying Congress to pass the enabling act for the state of Minnesota. This act defines the state's boundaries and authorizes the establishment of a state government. |
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| 1857 |
Mount Zion Hebrew Congregation, the first Jewish organization in Minnesota, is formed in St. Paul. |
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| 1883 |
Hubbard County is organized and named for Lucius F. Hubbard, who served as governor from 1882 to 1886. |
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| 1985 |
Minneapolis native Prince sweeps the Grammy Awards as his soundtrack to Purple Rain earns awards for best soundtrack, best rock performance, and best R&B song. |
 Edna Larrabee and Beulah Brunelle (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) escaped from Shakopee State Reformatory for Women five times between 1946 and 1949. Though most of the breakouts ended in their recapture within a few days, their fourth escape, in 1949, led to eight months of freedom and allowed the two women to live together as a couple while traveling around the United States. |
 After Kenya, which supports about half a million native Oromos, the state of Minnesota has the largest population of Oromo people outside their homeland in Ethiopia. As a result, Oromo people worldwide know the Twin Cities as Little Oromia. The story of how the area came to earn this name is intertwined with Oromo culture, politics, migration, religious faith, and adaptation to life in the United States in the late twentieth century. |
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