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1/23/2007: North Dakota has a very contradictory history when it comes to women. As the 19th century blended into the 20th, many thousands of women moved here to homestead and wrestle out a living for themselves. Despite their hardiness and proven strength, their road to getting the vote was a rocky one. It was on this day in 1917 that they finally achieved their goal.

1/24/2007: On this date in 1938, three Hidatsa men were celebrating the rescue of important relics that they believed would end the drought, dust and depression that were ravaging the North Dakota prairies.

2/22/2007: In a well-known Charlie Daniels Band song, the devil goes to Georgia to make a deal with a young fiddler. We all know the young fiddler, Johnny, out-played that old devil, but what we don’t know is that it was a good thing the devil went south looking for a challenge, because he would have found himself “in a bind and way behind” had he shown up in Williston on this date in 1933.

2/23/2007: President Woodrow Wilson signed the Smith-Hughes Act into law on this day in 1917.

2/27/2007: Albert F. Price was appointed as the first United States Marshal for the District of North Dakota on this day in 1890. Although Price was technically not the first U. S. Marshal of the area now known as North Dakota, he did receive the original appointment for the State of North Dakota.

2/28/2007: Martin Sabo may be the most famous native North Dakotan to gain political notoriety in Minnesota.

3/1/2007: The citizens of Washburn reported their desire to procure the North Dakota Agricultural College for their own city on this day in 1916.

3/3/2007: The North Dakota state flag was adopted by the North Dakota Legislative Assembly on this day in 1911. T

3/6/2007: Bismarck tavern owner Vincent Kielty announced the formation of a group known as the Association for Repeal of the Food Divorcement Law on this day in 1948. Kielty, chairman of the group, stated that the purpose of its formation was to repeal the 1946 legislation that made it illegal to sell food and liquor in the same establishment. The measure was passed by North Dakota voters in a general election two years earlier by a margin of only 3,700 votes.

3/7/2007: The Fargo Theatre, one of the last great show halls in the region to still show movies, opened on a Monday, March 15th,1926.