Jayme L. Job
Contributor, Dakota Datebook-
3/10/2012: A Jamestown man was reunited with the most decorated soldier in the United States Army on this date in 1949.
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3/4/2012: Henry Hansbrough began the first of his three Senate terms on this date in 1891.
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3/3/2012: Martin Nelson Johnson was born in Wisconsin on this date in 1850. He grew up in Iowa and earned a law degree.
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2/26/2012: On this date in 1949 came a report from Grand Forks of a farmer whose life was saved by three dogs.
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2/25/2012: Today marks the 153rd birthday of ‘Honest John’ Burke, North Dakota’s tenth Governor.
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2/19/2012: The Dakota Sioux and the U.S. Government signed an important treaty on this date in 1867. It was the wish of the Government to construct a road to the Pacific through Dakota Territory.
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2/18/2012: Aloisius Joseph Muench was born on this date in 1889 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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2/11/2012: Louis Marion, born on this date in 1870 in Pembina, would become one of the great leaders of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.
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2/5/2012: North Dakota baseball player Dewey Williams was born on this date in 1916 in Durham, North Carolina.
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2/4/2012: Between 1924 and 1951, twenty-three serious attempts were made to discover oil in the Williston Basin without success.