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12/1/2010: In 1932, the U.S. unemployment rate was at twenty-three percent. In Minot, that summer, about one hundred men who had lost their jobs banded together to “make their way” through their misfortune.

12/2/2010: On this date in 1943, the first nuclear chain reaction took place as part of the Manhattan Project. The creation of nuclear weapons would soon change North Dakota forever.

12/5/2010: The little town of Sanish sprang to life in 1916. Like its sister cities of Van Hook and Independence, it provided services to the rural population on the fertile Missouri River plains.

12/8/2010: The Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941, plunged the U.S. into World War II. Congress declared war on Japan the following day, December 8th.

12/14/2010: The Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, plunged the U.S. into World War II. Almost overnight, the entire nation mobilized for the global conflict.

12/25/2010: In 1915, Edgar and Minnie Hamlin decided to host a party at their home north of Wing on Christmas Eve. It was the only such party in the area, and everyone in town and in the neighboring countryside was invited.

12/29/2010: In the bleak midwinter, North Dakotans have often looked to outdoor sports like bobsledding, skating and skiing for invigorating recreation. Long before the invention of snowmobiles, Dr. Henry Wheeler of Grand Forks sailed across the frozen landscapes west in an exhilarating sport called snow yachting.

1/4/2011: The 1930s proved to be a political rollercoaster for North Dakota’s most flamboyant and controversial politician, William Langer; the man who in six years, won, lost and then won again North Dakota’s governorship.

1/9/2011: Today, cell phones and computers keep rural America connected with the rest of the world, but the land line telephone has been the mainstay for over a century.

1/11/2011: Much of the upper Midwest found itself in the throes of an extreme blizzard on this date in 1975. The storm ravaged nearly all parts of the entire country, extending from the northwestern coastal states to many of the southeastern states. While blizzard conditions roared in the Midwest, the southeast faced a tornado outbreak, producing forty-five tornadoes over a four-day period.