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4/26/2007: The funeral of North Dakota Governor Louis B. Hanna was held on this day in 1948. Louis Hanna served as North Dakota Governor from 1913 to 1917, but this was only one of the services that Hanna rendered to the state of North Dakota during his eighty-six years.

4/28/2007: Residents of Crosby, North Dakota found a missing keg of dynamite on this day in 1908.

4/29/2007: A heartwrenching story was reported from Williston on this day in 1924. T

4/30/2007: Residents of Fargo were surprised to learn of an underground cavern within their city limits on this day in 1917. Fargo City Commission President Alex Stern called an emergency meeting of the commission after a portion of sidewalk along first avenue north collapsed, revealing a giant hole beneath the street. Fortunately, no one was injured in the incident, although the enormous hole attracted the attention of onlookers for days.

5/2/2007: This month in 1883, Erik and Oline Ramstad set out from Grafton in Dakota Territory to become the first settlers of present day Minot ND. Three years later Erik Ramstad’s land sale to the railroad companies would set into motion the creation of the city of Minot. Ramstad would profit handsomely from these sales, and he became not only a bank and lumber company president, but one of Minot’s most celebrated forefathers.

5/3/2007: In May 1904, Joseph Pulitzer, creator of the coveted Pulitzer Prize, wrote: "Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve [the] public virtue…The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations."

5/11/2007: A terrible tragedy occurred on this night in 1924. On May 12, the Bismarck Tribune was shocked to learn of a fatal farmhouse fire that left four children and their mother dead near Regan, North Dakota. The fire was reported by the farmer’s neighbors, who rushed to the scene only to find the devastating effects of the accident.

5/29/2007: Today, anti-war sentiments are high as protesters like Cindy Sheehan are outspoken about the war in Iraq. Wars like Vietnam continually come up as comparisons, but few ever consider World War One or World War Two as “unpopular wars.” On this day in 1920, however, Kate Richards O’Hare was pardoned from her five year sentence in the federal penitentiary for her outspoken opposition to World War One.

5/30/2007: The Hudson Bay Company granted the Earl of Selkirk over seventy million acres of land in the Red River Valley on this day in 1811. Part of Rupert’s Land, the area had previously been granted to the Hudson Bay Company by the British government in an effort to form a fur-trading monopoly in the area.

6/1/2007: The cities of Yankton and Bismarck get along well enough these days. Haven’t read of any fracas between the two towns lately have you? Truth be told…they probably don’t pay much attention to each other. But that wasn’t always the case.