Search results for

7/5/2016: Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Holkar, 33 year-old prince of Indore, India, had a busy day on this date in 1943. He divorced his second wife and married another 10 hours later.

7/6/2016: It was during this week in 1956 that the International High School Music Camp began. It’s located between the U.S. and Canada in the International Peace Garden near Dunseith, North Dakota. Dr. Merton Utgaard was the camp’s founder.

7/12/2016: In 1874, a summer school for Sunday school teachers was founded on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in New York State. Participants stayed in tents, and eventually built permanent homes. Over the years, the assembly grew until it became Chautauqua Institution, a 750 acre educational center.

7/20/2016: Today we look at the early part of famed aviator Carl Ben Eielson’s story. He was born on this date in 1897 in Hatton, North Dakota.

7/22/2016: A lack of rain and moisture for much of the month of July was a complaint for Jamestown on this date in 1901. Rain of any significance hadn’t fallen since the Fourth of July.

7/28/2016: A labor shortage has been in the news lately. According to one economic report released in April, employers begin to complain of labor shortages when employment drops to 5%. The report predicted that this trend might continue for another fifteen years.

8/1/2016: On this date in 2003, a new history book was just out called “Sheheke, Mandan Indian Diplomat: The Story of White Coyote, Thomas Jefferson, and Lewis and Clark.” It was written by North Dakota historian Tracy Potter.

8/3/2016: Fifty years ago the National Historic Preservation Act was created to help preserve the diverse archaeological and architectural treasures of America. As immigrants traveled to the emerging frontier, they carried little more than their personal belongings, but equally important were their traditions and religious beliefs. Often settling in ethnic groups, these traditions and beliefs created a cohesive cornerstone to build communities.

8/5/2016: The Summer Olympics of 1936 in Berlin was a spectacle of Nazi hype in track-and-field. Adolph Hitler proclaimed his Aryan “Master Race” would defeat all others, but America’s Jesse Owens won four gold medals, exposing the “Master Race” as a sham.

1/6/2016: Today marks the anniversary of the death of Teddy Roosevelt, who died in his sleep in 1919 while at his New York home at Sagamore Hill on Long Island. As a young man, Roosevelt faced the staggering experience of losing both his wife and his mother on the same day in the same house. It was Valentines Day, 1884. His wife, Alice Lee, had given birth to their first child two days before.