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This Day in Minnesota History (July 03)

1839

Dakota and Ojibwe warriors engage in two battles: one in present-day Stillwater in an area called Battle Hollow, the other at the mouth of the Rum River in Anoka. The Dakota attacks kill about 100 Ojibwe people, and during the next month the Dakota hold celebratory dances at Bde Maka Ska.

1863

Ta Oyate Duta (His Red Nation, also called Little Crow), leader of the Dakota during the US-Dakota War of 1862, is killed while picking berries with his son in Meeker County, near Hutchinson. He is shot by Nathan and Chauncey Lamson, settler-colonists who are unaware of his identity. The Lamsons collect a bounty of $500 from the State of Minnesota for the murder.

1863

Minnesota's first railroad fatality: a train strikes a wagon driven by Captain Abraham Bennett at the Como Road crossing in St. Paul. There had been talk of building a bridge at the site, but, ironically, Bennett himself had opposed it.

1917

The Dandelion is the first ship to pass through the Minneapolis locks, which connect the upper Mississippi to water traffic from below St. Anthony Falls (Owamniyomni).

1941

Charles Haralson dies in Excelsior at the age of seventy-eight. The first resident superintendent of the University of Minnesota's Fruit Breeding Farm (now the Horticultural Research Center) at Excelsior, the Swedish-born Haralson served as superintendent from 1908 to 1925, an especially creative period during which several outstanding hardy trees and fruits were developed and introduced, including his namesake Haralson apple (1922), a tart, long-keeping, winter variety that remains popular with both home and commercial growers.

1985

An F2 tornado first spotted by Crow Wing County Deputy Sheriff Harold (Chip) Holk near Deerwood touches down at Garrison before moving across Mille Lacs. It comes ashore near Isle and continues moving to the southwest for twenty miles before dissipating.

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