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First Published: June 10, 2025
Flooding on the Red River in April and May 1997 set twentieth-century records at most locations along the Minnesota–North Dakota border and into Manitoba, Canada. At the time, it was the ...
First Published: June 05, 2025
In 1935, Minneapolis was rocked by radical populist protests as workers responded to the Great Depression, unemployment, and anti-union employers. Industrial unions galvanized discontent ...
First Published: February 10, 2025
In November 1998 Jesse Ventura, a former professional wrestler and sometime movie actor, was elected governor of Minnesota after defeating the much better-known and better-financed ...
First Published: January 29, 2025
About 13,000 years ago the melting glaciers that covered Minnesota and Canada created a vast lake, bigger than all the Great Lakes of today combined. Geologists later named this Lake ...
First Published: January 14, 2025
When Anna Salzer died while a patient at Rochester State Hospital in 1897, her death was first reported as the result of heart failure after a twelve-hour illness. Later, the cause of death ...
First Published: August 07, 2024
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 ...
First Published: June 27, 2024
After the elections of 1974 the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) held both US Senate seats, all the state constitutional offices, and control of the legislature. Four years ...
First Published: June 05, 2024
Former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter and his running mate, Senator Walter Mondale, overwhelmingly won the state of Minnesota and its ten electoral votes in 1976. The Democratic ticket ...
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