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3/13/2007: On this date, March 13, 1957, a baby boy, John, was born to Jack and Trish at St. Alexius Hospital in Bismarck. John, the middle of three children, ( he has two sisters), would grow up to graduate from Bishop Ryan High School in Minot and later earn a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire…after that, a master’s degree in business administration from Northwestern University in Chicago. After several years in the banking industry, John Hoeven would make his first foray into politics a successful one, becoming elected Governor of North Dakota in two thousand.

3/14/2007: “Light me up!” On this date in 1953 no longer could kids in North Dakota expect to buy a pack of cigarettes—candy cigarettes that is.

3/17/2007: Chester “Chet” Reiten was born in Hastings, a little town in Bottineau County on March 17th, 1923.

11/16/2006: It had only been a little over a year since the end of World War II, and the world’s superpowers were already taking up arms. They were to invade North Dakota. Why not, after all? It was pheasant season.

11/17/2006: Today’s North Dakota Farmers’ Union, organized in the late 1920s, was the result of the farmers’ desires to improve their status. Preceded by the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America, first established in Texas in 1902, came to North Dakota in 1912.

11/19/2006: In the old days, lignite was often gathered and burned in stoves in North Dakota, but the Manidon Mining Company found it was more profitable to burn it in the vein.

11/27/2006: Thousands of people lined the streets and gathered in the Bismarck auditorium on this day in 1921 to greet the French war hero, Marshal Ferdinand Foch.

12/1/2006: Figure Four was a famous North Dakota rodeo bucking horse that performed at the National Finals Rodeo during the 1960s.

12/6/2006: The date was August 25, 1966. Minot was soon to become the scene of an unexplainable UFO sighting.

12/8/2006: Little did he know as he enlisted in the Army Air Corps today in 1942, Jim Tronson was about to become a friend of fate. Despite what seemed like unfortunate circumstances, destiny would bring Jim from an ill-fated 13th mission, to friends in France, and back to his crew several years later.