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4/15/2006: Carl Ben Eielson was a true North Dakota hero. On April 15, 1928, he and Captain George Hubert Wilkins flew a non-stop, 2,200-mile flight over the North Pole. In September that year, the two accomplished a 1,200-mile flight in the Antarctic.

5/23/2006: A Medora mail carrier faced some unexpected delivery conditions on this day in 1911. It was neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night that stayed postal carrier Ray Wood from his daily rounds on that day, but a flooding river and an angry, half-broken bronco. Add to this combination an old and tired stage coach, and you have the makings of a comical postal situation.

5/27/2006: Seventy-five years ago on this day, May 27, 1931, an F3 tornado collided with the Great Northern Railway’s passenger train, The Empire Builder, east of Fargo.

5/28/2006: A Towner man received a “bad shaking up” on this day in 1911, when a modern invention collided with a conventional mode of transportation.

6/4/2006: A prisoner of the Jamestown State Hospital made a surprising statement on this day in 1936.

6/5/2006: On June 5, 1843, John James Audubon first entered what is now North Dakota.

6/7/2006: Bismarck reported to area papers that the city was entertaining a distinguished guest on this day in 1911. The guest was Second Lieutenant Calvin Pearl Titus, who had earned fame as the first soldier to scale the walls of Peking, China during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.

7/19/2006: “Don’t miss the Aeroplane!” boasted an advertisement in the Grand Forks Daily Herald today in 1910. “The most thrilling and sensational marvel of the age. Daring flights daily; diving from dizzy heights to depths below; mounting majestically to the clouds; death defying but delightful. First and only opportunity to see this greatest of all thrillers in the Northwest.”

7/20/2006: It was the official start of a new campaign for North Dakota on this day in 1915. The Capital Removal Association of Eddy County gathered at what the New Rockford Transcript called the “opening gun” meeting of a campaign to bring the capital of North Dakota to the growing town of New Rockford. Unhappy with the current placement of the capital in Bismarck, the Capital Removal Association (CRA) felt it was time to change its location to a better, more accessible place for all of North Dakota.

7/21/2006: The troops of the First North Dakota Infantry had waited anxiously for several weeks to receive the order that would send them to the Mexican border for duty. Finally, on this day in 1916, they got it.