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8/27/2005: Karl Benz (of Mercedes Benz) received the first patent for a gas-fueled car on January 29, 1886, and he is generally credited with inventing the internal combustion engine.

8/28/2005: On this date in 1941, the Soviet government announced the total banishment of Germans from Russia. The decree led to the deportation, imprisonment, and death for hundreds of thousands of German-Russians.

8/31/2005: William Molash – better known as Turkey Track Bill – had a bad day about this date in 1912. It started off okay. In fact, he and a group of friends were partying it up pretty good.

9/1/2005: The news on this date in 1914 was that S. A. Burns was being charged with the murder of a McKenzie County homesteader who had been missing from his ranch near Schafer for four months. The odd thing was that Burns was already in jail – already charged with the same murder.

9/2/2005: On this date in 1945, the prisoners of war at the Hiro Hata prison camp in Japan conducted a liberation ceremony; among them 23 year-old Francis Wilfred Agnes. Agnes was born to his namesake, an Irish immigrant, and Pauline Drawczyk in April 1922. The family lived in Haynes, near Hettinger in SW North Dakota, where Francis Sr. was a coal miner. When the Great Depression hit, he took a job with the WPA and moved his family to Wenatchee, Washington.

9/5/2005: Walter Benjamin Hancock was born on this date in 1863 in Gloucestershire, England. He immigrated to the U.S. with his older brother in 1882 – George was 32; Walter was around 18. George had a degree in construction and architecture from the South Kensington Institute in London and was eager to take part in the great expansion taking place in Dakota Territory.

9/8/2005: Eunice Kalloch was born near Rugby to Alice and Fingar Gronvold in 1908. Her father emigrated from Norway to the U. S. when he was 17, and in 1886 he settled near Rugby, where he eventually owned ran the Gronvold-Halseth hardware store. Later, he went into the automobile business with his sons.

9/11/2005: A horrifying event outside Hillsboro was reported on this date in 1914.

9/13/2005: Today’s stories are about the lost being found. The first one takes place in McLean County in a little town called Dogden, founded along the Soo Line Railroad in 1906. On this date in 1923, an eighteen-month old girl named Lillian Disapenko wandered away from her parents’ home, and after some amount of time, she apparently laid down and fell asleep. Unfortunately, the place she chose for her nap was on the railroad tracks.

9/29/2005: Shane Stromsodt was born in Grand Forks in May 1959, and at four months, he was inoculated for diphtheria, whooping cough, polio and tetanus with a brand new antigen called Quadrigen, manufactured by Parke-Davis & Co. of Detroit.