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4/14/2011: United States Land Offices recorded the passage of land from the public domain to private ownership. Claims were filed for a ten dollar fee, with another two dollars paid to the clerk

4/15/2011: Thomas Edward Whelan was born in St. Thomas, North Dakota, on this date in 1895. Whelan, a potato farmer by trade, later served as a state senator, as well as the state chairman of the Republican Party. His most surprising role, however, came in 1951, when President Harry Truman appointed Whelan to be the U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua.

4/16/2011: The history of the Russian thistle dates back to the 1870s in Dakota Territory.

4/17/2011: Young Martin Tabert left North Dakota to see the world. While in Florida he ran out of money, was fined for vagrancy and instead of jail time he was leased to the Putman Lumber Company chain gang.

4/18/2011: Tatanka Iyotaka is famed as the chief medicine man of the Hunkpapa Sioux—known best today as Sitting Bull.

4/23/2011: Born on this date in 1803, Father George Anthony Belcourt was gifted with unusual linguistic abilities and a heart for Native Americans.

4/24/2011: The announcement came on this date that John Hoeven of Minot would seek the Republican endorsement for Lt. Governor.

4/25/2011: On this date in 1898, the United States declared war on Spain. It was plain to see that Americans had blamed Spain for the sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor. A “ghastly explosion” on the U.S. ship killed 260 Americans, giving rise to the battle cry, “Remember the Maine!”

4/26/2011: Fargo Oak Grove Lutheran School has a long history, dating back to its founding in 1906. And Oak Grove has a beautiful setting, with its five-acre campus facing the Red River with its murmuring waters. But riverside beauty brings with it the woeful hazard of spring flooding.

4/27/2011: By 1918 America’s love for the automobile was insatiable, but with World War I ongoing in Europe, accessories such as new tires were hard to come by. There was also a thirst for alcohol in North Dakota.