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4/27/2006: Today we’re bringing you a glimpse of what our state was like before humans came. On this day, 75 million years ago, the area around Cooperstown was under salt water.

4/30/2006: The National Anti-Tuberculosis Assn. was founded in 1904; the ND affiliate started up soon after, and the tuberculosis sanatorium was built at Dunseith. This date in 1911 was set aside as Tuberculosis Sunday, during which ND pastors and priests in every pulpit explained tuberculosis to their congregations… the symptoms, how it spread, and how it could be treated.

5/1/2006: Perhaps more important than the founding of Harold Schafer’s Gold Seal Company on this date in 1942 was his decision and dedication to revive the small southwestern North Dakota community of Medora.

5/5/2006: It was on this date in 1945 that a Japanese bomb balloon claimed the lives of six people in Oregon. They were the only casualties of World War II in the continental United States. Two of them were the children of Grand Forks railroad engineer, Frank Patzke, 13 year-old Joan and 14 year-old Dick.

5/7/2006: Felix Vinatieri was the first musician and composer of note to have lived and worked in Dakota Territory.

5/10/2006: In 1876, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions decided to open a mission at Fort Berthold in northern Dakota Territory. It began at an old fur trading post of the Astor Fur Trading Company, about 90 miles northwest of Bismarck and where the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara lived in peace along the Missouri River.

5/14/2006: Today is Mother’s Day in North Dakota. Ragnvald Nestos, North Dakota’s thirteenth Governor, recognized the importance of mothers in North Dakota in a ceremony on the State Capitol grounds in Bismarck on May 10, 1924.

5/19/2006: Today is the 80h birthday of former United States Senator Mark Andrews, who represented North Dakota as a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives for 18 years and in the Senate for six. In total, he served in Congress for 24 years, paralleling the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan.

5/21/2006: A Ward County farmer had a fortunate stroke of luck on this day in 1908. Homesteader Harry Corwin, residing on his claim five miles south of Minot, reported a bolt of lightning striking the stovepipe of his shack—while he was inside of it, weathering the storm.

5/25/2006: Two former fiancés were sentenced with court fines on this day in 1911 for their participation in a bizarre Minneapolis love triangle.