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4/11/2009: St. Mary's Catholic Church and its Iron Cross Cemetery, in Hague, ND, are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Most early settlers in the Hague area came from southern Russian villages including Baden, Elsass, Kandel, Mannheim, Selz and Strassburg.

4/18/2009: The war in Korea was raging in the spring of 1951, but North Dakota guardsmen from the 164th infantry and the 188th field artillery units were still in the states, training at Camp Rucker, Alabama.

4/19/2009: A strange sight was seen by motorists outside of Minot on this date in 1916. A dead man was lying beside the road.

4/21/2009: Wilfred Jacob Boechler "First Rubber Tire Tractor" Interviewed: Allan, SK, 23 July 2006

4/24/2009: We can all recall the story of Little Bo-Peep or Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son, which were part of our youth. These go hand-in-hand with the mystical magic of Santa Claus and the Easter Rabbit. They were the first stories told to capture our imaginations, and they were also the stories that began to cultivate our philosophy in its earliest form.

4/26/2009: The news of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination came as a tragic shock to a nation already weary after four years of civil war. Dakota Territory was no exception.

4/27/2009: From the late 1880's to around 1925, architecture took a turn for the opulent. The Beaux Arts style was in full swing throughout America.

6/11/2009: In June of 1919, Congress received enough votes to pass the 19th Amendment, and with it, the right for women to vote. This amendment was ratified in 1920, and that year, the League of Women Voters was borne.

6/12/2009: In times of shortage during war, for whatever reason, it seems that everyone bonds together. However, in 1942 on this date, the readers of the Knox Advocate newspaper found that they weren’t the only ones working overtime to send supplies to the troops and preserve resources for the war.

6/15/2009: On this date in 1946, one E. G. Wanner, known as Cap, was embroiled in vicious battle. Daily, he marched out to check on the battle, and to make his plans.