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5/25/2007: This week in 1916 the inventor of the modern diving board, Ray Rude, was born on a small farm near Stanley, North Dakota. The diving board invented by Ray Rude allows divers to spring higher, arc farther, and do so with more consistency then was ever before dreamed possible.

5/27/2007: In mid May of 1916 the Nekoma Township Board comprised of Knut Grovhovd, Ole Oyos, John Oakland and Mike Manley accompanied by County Commissioner Edward Wienecke were traveling about the township inspecting the roads and bridges when it was noted that their keg of beer had been depleted so they dropped in on the home of Alex Borho, the local blacksmith, who had been treating callers that day.

6/29/2007: James Bannon was admitted to the North Dakota State Penitentiary on this day in 1931. The North Dakota Supreme Court sentenced James, the father of accused murderer Charles Bannon, to life in prison for acting as an accomplice to the murder of an entire family.

7/1/2007: Oscar H. Will, nationally known seed man, came to Bismarck, Dakota Territory, in the spring of 1881 to work with Edward M. Fuller employed Oscar in his Bismarck seed house.

7/8/2007: Representatives from North and South Dakota met on this day in 1927 to discuss the possibility of the Missouri River Diversion project.

7/12/2007: Carl Jensen, better known as “Cliff,” was born in 1911 to a Danish immigrant who ran a creamery in Kimball, SD. After graduating from South Dakota State College in Brookings, Cliff worked for the ND Agriculture Department, living in Carrington, Devils Lake and Fargo.

7/16/2007: Settlement of the area now known as Burleigh County came quickly after the Northern Pacific Railroad came through, reaching the Missouri River in June 1872. By the following January, there were a sufficient number of settlers to organize as Burleigh County.

7/18/2007: An accidental shooting on this day in 1916 led to some very curious events in Wahpeton, North Dakota. Although the shooting occurred on this day, July 9th, it was not reported until five days later, on July 14th. Miraculously, the victim, and probable shooter in the incident, somehow managed to survive those five days without food or medical attention.

7/25/2007: In the early days of North Dakota, there were plenty of wide open spaces. Settling this flat and untamed land did not come easy. Hard work, and a lot of it, was the order of the day. To survive in this new land, one needed a lot of grit, muscle and patience. These new settlers needed a spirit of survival; a “dog-ed” determination.

7/29/2007: On this date in 1908, there was a bust made in the city of Fargo.