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6/29/2006: On this day, June 29, 2003, residents of San Diego, California were introduced to the huge swamps, extensive forests, exotic plants and animals of subtropical North Dakota. This of course, is the North Dakota of the Paleocene Epoch 60 million years ago. The grand opening of a traveling exhibition, "After the Dinosaurs: When Crocodiles Ruled," gave visitors of the San Diego Natural Museum of History a glimpse of the environmental, biological and geological changes that occurred after the dinosaurs’ extinction and before the arrival of humans.

7/1/2006: One of many 4th of July rodeos, the Mandan Rodeo became famous in the 1940s when it was part of the ‘big loop” that included Cheyenne Frontier Days and the Calgary Stampede.

7/2/2006: April Fools Day came late for the residents of New Rockford in 1915. On this day 91 years ago, the New Rockford Transcript reported that an old man, who made it apparent that he was crippled and could not speak, appeared in the growing town of New Rockford.

7/4/2006: On July 4th, 1776, the unofficial flag of the new united states of America had the familiar red and white stripes, but no stars. There was a British Union Jack in the upper left-hand corner. It was called the Grand Union Flag. Within a year, Congress passed the Flag Resolution of June 14, 1777, calling for “thirteen stripes, alternate red and white,” and replacing the British symbolism with “thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.” The “Stars and Stripes” became the official flag of the new nation.

This Sunday on Prairie Public Presents: "Small Change" highlights the stories of five minority women-owned small business owners—Native, Black and Latina—and looks at the time and sweat equity it took to start the businesses, the critical pivots they made to keep their businesses afloat during the early months of the pandemic, and what they are doing now to keep their businesses running and growing.

7/18/2006: Two violators of the law were forced to eat their words on this day in 1911. Notorious gamblers Mike Moore and Albert Spencer felt the bitter sting of public humiliation in the police court of Fargo, North Dakota on that day.

7/25/2006: On this day, July 25, 1913, Jack Law and Jack Allen arrived in Minot, ND and set up headquarters across from the local Salvation Army. As organizers for the International Workers of the World, better known as the Wobblies, they had been invited into the community by J.M. Near of the Iconoclast; Minot’s socialist newspaper. Near had been pushing for a group of local contractors to unionize.

7/28/2006: The Bank of North Dakota, the only state-owned bank in the U.S., opened on this date in 1919. The Nonpartisan League, during the 1919 Legislature, was instrumental in creating five new laws, including one that created the Bank of North Dakota.

7/29/2006: North Dakota’s capital city was plagued by a series of audacious burglaries in the early morning hours of this day in 1902.

8/2/2006: As the men of North Dakota rushed off to Europe to aid in the battles of World War Two, others were needed in Ramsey County to help in that year’s harvest. Today in 1944, The Devil’s Lake World reported on two groups that did just that.