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4/18/2017: Dore, North Dakota predates the county it resides in – at least the current incarnation. McKenzie County was eliminated in 1891 for a lack of settlement, before being re-created by the state legislature in 1905.

4/25/2017: The Twentieth Century blossomed with the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair. Plans for the fair began in 1898. The committee raised $15 million from government and private sources, and by 1901, construction was underway on 1,200 acres of Forest Park.

4/28/2017: In the early 1900s, the railroad was the way to travel. There was, of course, economy class that offered affordable tickets with few amenities. But in first class, the well-to-do could ride in style. The wealthiest travelers could even book a private parlor car. Every train included a dining car with gourmet chefs, waiters sporting white gloves and jackets, and white linen tablecloths. But on April 6, 1917 the United States declared war on Germany, entering World War I. All that railroad luxury was about to become a thing of the past.

5/3/2017: As the 20th Century arrived, women’s clothing was lavish and cumbersome. Madame Gaches-Sarraute designed a new corset in 1900. She thought the corsets of the 19th Century were not healthy, and she was right. They restricted breathing and often caused fainting. They even caused misshapen ribs and internal organs. The newly designed “Health Corset” removed pressure from the waist and diaphragm, but pushed the bosom forward and the hips back so it wasn’t much of an improvement. Women topped the corset with as much as forty pounds of clothing including frilly blouses, petticoats, and heavy skirts.

5/16/2017: Nicknamed Pinky, Francis Register was born in 1917 and raised in Bismarck. Pinky always had an interest in airplanes and with the coming of World War II, he joined the Navy Air Forces and became a full-fledged flying officer on December 12, 1941, just 5 days after the US entered the war.

5/23/2017: By this date in 1917, America had declared war on Germany, and the registration for the draft was only weeks away. For a number of years, North Dakota families had been anxiously following the war news from Europe, and now many loved ones could soon be in harm’s way.

8/4/2017: On this date in 1916, Joe Weinreis arrived for work as store clerk at the Farmer Supply Store in Beach, North Dakota only to discover that the lock on the front door was broken. He rushed to the office to find the safe badly damaged but still secure. Although the dial to the combination lock had been broken off with a sledge hammer, a quick examination showed that the burglars had been unsuccessful at gaining entry.

8/8/2017: Americans live in the dark shadow of nuclear weapons; developed during World War II for fear that Nazi Germany might get atomic bombs first. The idea of unleashing subatomic forces came from famous nuclear physicists, including Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi.

8/22/2017: In 1919, coal operators came to an agreement with the Coal Miners of America. The agreement included pay increases and assurances that coal would be weighed accurately. The miners said they would never again dig three tons of coal for the price of two. But when the contract expired in 1922, operators were determined to roll back the gains made by the miners. When they refused to continue the terms of the 1919 agreement, union president John L. Lewis led 610,000 miners out on strike.

8/23/2017: Anthrax occurs worldwide, and a few anthrax cases are reported among livestock in North Dakota almost every year. The organism exists in the soil as a spore. Animals, domestic or wild, become infected by grazing on contaminated land or eating contaminated feed.