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1/20/2006: Yesterday’s Dakota Datebook was on the anniversary of the wedding of Olive Stokes and Tom Mix. The nuptials took place before a Billings County Justice of the Peace on a Medora ranch in 1909.

1/21/2006: Garrison Dam began generating electricity on this day, 50 years ago.

1/24/2006: On this date in 1938, three Hidatsa men were celebrating the rescue of important relics that they believed would end the drought, dust and depression that were ravaging the North Dakota prairies. One of these men was Arthur Mandan, who, later that year, became the first chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes. The other two men were 75-year-old Drags Wolf and 84-year-old Foolish Bear, both of the Hidatsa Water Buster Clan.

1/25/2006: Ramsey County was organized on this date in 1883, with Devils Lake serving as the county seat.

3/23/2006: Ladies and Gentlemen... Mylo Hatzenbuhler! Yesterday was the 10-year anniversary of the debut of “I’m Big-Time Now!” a CD by Mylo Hatzenbuhler – who is known to his followers as the “Strasburg Superstar.”

3/24/2006: On this day in 1902, word came from Lisbon that a woman had been found dead near Velva. Elaine Lindgren wrote about it in her book, “Land in Her Own Name”:

3/27/2006: On this date in 1908, a young group called the Literary Society held a basket social to raise money to buy a bell for their schoolhouse belfry near Lankin, North Dakota. The bell arrived from the foundry embossed with the initials R.G.L.S., for Ramsey Grove Literary Society, and its pealing became a popular sound throughout the valley.

4/13/2006: On this date in 1912, 27 year-old Oskar Hedman was coming back to North Dakota after conducting business and visiting family in Sweden. Known to his friends as “Happy,” Oskar was a smallish man with “a Jimmy Durante face.” He had lived around Bowman for six years, farming, selling land and working as a settlement recruiter.

4/16/2006: Gerald Michael Charlebois' birthday is tomorrow. He was born in Harvey in 1929 and later moved to Seattle, where he showed promise in acting and boxing.

4/23/2006: In April 1910, the Hansboro News offered the following advice: