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11/7/2010: On November 2, 1889 North Dakota was admitted to the Union as the 39 State with a brand new slate of elected officials.

11/8/2010: Babe Ruth, the premier slugger of the New York Yankees, the "King of Swat," arrived in North Dakota on this date in 1926 after a “fast ride” by car from Brainerd. Although his feet got cold along the way, the rest of him stayed warm in his "huge raccoon coat." Standing six-foot-two and weighing 220 pounds, Mr. Ruth "looked like two men,” observed reporters, “stacked inside" one coat.

11/24/2010: It was this date in 1927 that up-and-coming businessman Bertin Clyde Gamble married Gladys Pearson. While certainly a joyous occasion, the Gambles couldn’t afford to take a leisurely honeymoon; they and their business partner, Phil Skogmo, had an empire to build.

11/30/2010: Electricity in rural North Dakota essentially began in the 1930s with the creation of the Rural Electrification Administration, but most larger communities had had electricity for decades.

12/3/2010: Ninety years ago on this date, the first North Dakota chapter of the DeMolay organization received its ‘Letters Temporary.” The Ivanhoe Chapter, located in Grand Forks, was officially chartered the following month. It was the fourteenth DeMolay chapter in the country.

12/4/2010: We are all aware of the evils of smoking and have heard repeatedly the reasons to quit, but an event that occurred over one hundred years ago may add yet another.

12/6/2010: The Saturday Evening Post has long been more than a magazine; with us for nearly 300 years, the magazine has become an institution, a household name. It came into being before the United States. Published first in 1728 by Benjamin Franklin as the Pennsylvania Gazette, it became The Saturday Evening Post in 1821.

12/7/2010: Most people are aware that today marks the 69th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but few North Dakotans likely recall the epic political blunder that Senator Gerald Nye also made on that day.

12/10/2010: Wyoming Territory passed the first women’s suffrage law on this date in 1869, granting women equal voting rights. Although this led to a dramatic and hopeful response in the more populated areas of the country, Dakota Territory, organized eight years earlier, was slower to champion the cause of women’s suffrage.

12/15/2010: Ed Schafer, the 30th governor of North Dakota, left office on this date ten years ago. After serving as governor for eight years, Governor Schafer felt satisfied that he had met three goals he had set for himself when he began his first term on December 15th, 1992.