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4/23/2008: On this date in 1922, Dr. O. O. Churchill of North Dakota Agricultural College confirmed a report by Dr. Austin O’Malley of Philadelphia that Fargo would be one of the few cities in the United States to boast of a population of blondes.

5/3/2008: Father John F. Malo was born near Montreal, Canada in 1830. Ordained as a priest at the age of 28, Father Malo moved to the Turtle Mountains of Dakota Territory in 1881 with a group of settlers from Quebec to found a mission. Together with the local Me_tis, they constructed a twenty by forty foot log church and christened it St. Claude on this day, May 3, 1882.

5/10/2008: There was a bit of a scare in Bismarck on the afternoon of this day in 1967.

5/13/2008: Today, we North Dakotans have been holding our collective breaths as we have waited for some moisture to come at the beginning of this growing season.

6/25/2008: It was 58 years ago today that Russian-backed North Korea invaded South Korea. It was the first armed conflict fought by the United Nations to contain the spread of Communism.

7/2/2008: After ten years playing at the Trianon Ballroom in Chicago, Lawrence Welk, native of Strasburg, North Dakota, realized that his days in the Windy City were drawing to a close. The big band craze of the 1930s and '40s was ending, Welk’s crowds were dwindling and the Trianon’s manager had refused repeated requests from the band for salary increases. And so, in 1950, Welk decided to pack up his orchestra and go on tour, hoping for more lucrative engagements in other parts of the country.

7/5/2008: In anticipation of the arrival of the Northern Pacific railroad in 1871, George Egbert relocated from central Minnesota to the present-day region of Fargo.

7/11/2008: Whoever said there’s nothing to do in North Dakota? On this day in 1965, over two thousand people had plenty to do.

7/12/2008: On this day in 1864, General Jubal A. Early and 20,000 Confederate troops attacked Fort Stevens, just outside Washington DC. President Abraham Lincoln and the First Lady traveled to the fort to watch the battle.

7/15/2008: Located a few miles southwest of Oakes, North Dakota, stands a lonely stone monument. Absent a few piles of stones, faint depressions in the ground, and the prairie grasses, little surrounds the marker memorializing the first town site of Dickey County; Hudson, North Dakota.