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4/19/2008: Today in 1897, Theodore Roosevelt was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Serving in the position for one year, Roosevelt was instrumental in preparing for war with Spain by planning naval strategies and ensuring George Dewey was named commander of the Asiatic Squadron.

4/20/2008: On this day, April 20, 1836, Congress approved a bill creating Wisconsin Territory; a region including present-day Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa as well as South Dakota and North Dakota east of the Missouri River.

4/24/2008: All across North Dakota in 1937, boys and girls age 14 or younger were preparing to go head to head in a great marble tournament.

4/27/2008: When Foster County was established by the Territorial Legislature in January of 1873, it consisted of a rectangular block of 42 townships. By the time the county government was organized a decade later, several townships had been re-assigned to other surrounding counties.

4/26/2008: In 1954, the grand prize of the raffle for the St. Leo School's carnival in Minot was really grand, and tempting, too: a cream and green-colored, 1954 Dodge.

4/29/2008: On this day in 1954, cowboys from across the region were preparing themselves to participate in one last roundup of wild horses near Medora. The event was determined to possibly be the nation's last major horse roundup.

5/1/2008: For “her remarkable contribution to the academic, business and spiritual life of North Dakota,” Sister Thomas Welder was presented the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider award on this day, May 1, 2004 by Governor John Hoeven.

5/8/2008: If you listened to yesterday's Datebook, you heard of Edward Henry Allen, a man from our land-locked state who served on board the aircraft carrier Lexington, and who died as a naval hero during World War II.

5/14/2008: On this day, May 14, 2001, the Archbishop of the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria, David Windibiziri, addressed the congregation of Trinity Lutheran Church, north of Kenmare, ND. Although raised in the traditional religious beliefs of his home in Nigeria, Archbishop Windibiziri had as a teenager converted to Christianity and attended the Lutheran Seminary in St. Paul, MN before being ordained as a pastor in 1972.

5/19/2008: One-hundred and twenty-five years ago, on this day, May 19, 1883, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show held its first public performance in Omaha, Nebraska. For the next three decades, the massive outdoor show traveled across the United States, Great Britain and Europe staging reenactments of life on the American West such as the Bison Hunt, the Train Robbery and the Attack on the Burning Cabin. Performers included Mexicans, African-Americans, Native Americans, cowboys, women and children, along with experts in shooting, lassoing and riding.