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9/30/2005: Today is a milestone in the history of Dakota Datebook itself. This is our 730th episode – marking our second full year of programming. When we began airing the program in October 2003, we all wondered if we’d find enough stories. Luckily, there were more than we ever dreamed.

10/1/2005: On this day in 1889, North Dakota elected its first state officials and approved its first Constitution.

10/2/2005: On this date in 1914, police stormed the roof of a Grand Forks hotel, where a man named Oscar Albertson had been “defending himself valiantly with bricks and other missiles” for half an hour.

10/3/2005: Lulu Knapp Quick was born on the Helena Farm near Cooperstown on this date in 1902. This farmsite later formed the nucleus for Revere, reputed to be the only town on the Great Northern railroad town with a depot on the south side of the tracks.

10/5/2005: More than two hundred million years ago – but probably not on this date – a meteorite slammed into what is now McKenzie County, leaving behind a crater 5-miles across.

10/9/2005: Trail bosses knew the better the cook, the better the men he could hire, because one of the few pleasures in a cowpoke’s day was eating. Preferred cuisine included beans, Sourdough Biscuits, Red Bean Pie and Vinegar Pie. Here’s the recipe for another delicacy, Sonofabitch Stew:

10/11/2005: Will Harrison was born in Iowa in 1875, but in constant search of a better life, his family moved around a lot. Will’s father died while he was still young, so he went to live with, and work for, a family named McCarty, whose name he eventually took as his own.

10/12/2005: “Nothing is so busy as an idle rumor.” That was the parting shot reported in the Bismarck Tribune about this time in 1948. Seems the reporters had recently been led on some wild goose chases.

10/14/2005: Lt. Ernest M. Sands of Minot was a bombardier for the 458th Bomb Group when he was shot down over Cologne, Germany, on this date in 1944. Sands was aboard a B-24 piloted by William Klusmeyer and knew everyone in the crew except the 2nd navigator, who called himself M.C.

10/17/2005: Walter Paul Buck was born in Garrison on this date in 1915. He was the son of Reverend Paul and Clara Buck and received his post-secondary education at Concordia Jr. College in St. Paul and at UND. Walter married Ella Sailer in Stanton in 1941, and with his subsequent jobs, they traveled the globe. He was employed with Chief Intelligence for the IRS, the Agency for International Development and the US State Department and Foreign Services.