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6/14/2010: Baseball is America's game, but it has become the world's game. Today's major league baseball teams include players born in other lands - such as Justin Morneau from Canada; Francisco Liriano from the Dominican Republic; and Japan's Ichiro Suzuki.

11/5/2009: The thriving town of Blanchard was completely wiped out on this day in 1908, as an enormous fire ravaged the community in the early morning hours. The fire spread quickly, consuming the entire business section within a few short hours. Several residences were also destroyed, leaving many people homeless and possessing only the pajamas on their backs.

11/13/2009: A retraction issued by Deputy United States Marshal A. B. Wood was sent to the Associated Press and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at the United States Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. on this date in 1910. The retraction, although a serious matter, was the result of a practical joke gone awry.

11/15/2009: A young man from Golden Valley was driving around when he saw a giant eagle attacking a jack rabbit.

11/16/2009: Ole G. Thortwick, lauded as the first settler in the Red River Valley, passed away on this date in 1908. Thortwick traveled to the area from his home in Houston County, Minnesota. As the first homesteaders to stake a claim in the valley, he and his wife did so in hopes of farming the valley's rich soil in 1870. He had heard about the agricultural possibilities of the area from visitors returning to eastern Minnesota, so he decided to pursue his love of farming "out west."

11/19/2009: A terrible fire was reported from the town of Buffalo, North Dakota, on this date in 1900. The fire swept through the city's business district, destroying every business save one. Like many early towns of the time, the majority of Buffalo's businesses were concentrated onto a single block in the town's center. Although this proved an efficient set-up, it also increased the risk of damage from fire.

11/21/2009: Gilbert A. Pierce began his first term as a United States Senator representing the newly admitted state of North Dakota on this day in 1889.

11/25/2009: The marriage of Lieutenant Henry Harrington and Grace Bernard was reported on this day in 1872. The Lieutenant and his wife would eventually become known to North Dakotans for very different reasons; Harrington would become one of the sad casualties of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and his wife's actions afterward would serve to perpetuate the mythical curse of the battle.

1/13/2010: Elizabeth Jane Baute was born on this date in 1931 in Lebanon, Kentucky. She is better known to most North Dakotans, however, as Jane Sinner, wife of North Dakota Governor George Sinner.

1/16/2010: The North Dakota Air National Guard officially became a National Guard unit on this date in 1947 at Hector Air Field in Fargo.