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4/23/2007: An inventor from Grand Forks was celebrating the success of his latest invention on this day in 1916.

4/27/2007: Sully’s Hill National Park was established by presidential proclamation on this day in 1904 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The park is located “on the south shore of Devils Lake in Benson County, in the heart of the Spirit Lake Nation.” The park consists of 1,674 acres of marshes, wetlands, prairies, and wooded areas.

5/4/2007: The county government of Billings County was organized on this day in 1886.

5/6/2007: An escaped patient of the North Dakota State Asylum was found on this day in 1916.

5/5/2007: Hatch’s Battalion, a Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry that served in the Union Army during the Civil War was organized at Ft. Snelling and St. Paul Minnesota. Companies A-B-C and D mustered in between July 25th and September 1863.

5/7/2007: The cities of Fargo and Moorhead were celebrating a week of festivities honoring William Shakespeare on this day in 1916. The festivities, including plays, parades, games, dances, and fireworks, were held as part of a nation-wide celebration honoring the three-hundred year anniversary of the English poet’s death. Although the exact date of the poet’s birth and death remain unknown, both are generally placed within the last week of April or into early May.

5/8/2007: On this day in 1957, newspapers across the country were reporting a prison riot at the State Penitentiary in Bismarck the previous day. The trouble started late in the morning, when 220 prisoners refused to go back to work in the binder-twine factory. The convicts complained of poor food, about the actions of a particularly hated guard, and inadequate time for recreation.

5/9/2007: Smokey Bear is the longest running public service campaign in the United States, with Smokey’s mission being to raise public awareness to prevent fires and protect our nation’s forests. But Smokey wasn’t the first “spokes animal” speaking out for fire safety.

5/10/2007: Men generally aren’t commended for trying to sneak a peak up a woman’s skirt, but one North Dakotan helped in a historic capture by doing so. That North Dakotan’s name was Arne Ranum, a young Norwegian man and Civil War soldier.

5/14/2007: On this date in 1921, the Bismarck American Legion sponsored a resolution to dedicate a new Bismarck-Mandan bridge to World War I veterans. The bridge, which was under construction, was the final coast-to-coast link of US Highway 10 and would to be the first to span the Missouri River for automobile use.