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11/6/2009: The University of North Dakota was founded one hundred and twenty-six years ago, on this date in 1883. A full six years before North Dakota became a state, the Territorial Legislature approved a bill establishing the institution.

6/11/2010: The 35th annual Menoken Grove State Rally of North Dakota's ABATE group begins today in Menoken, North Dakota. ABATE, which stands for American Bikers Aiming Towards Education, is a national organization with branches in nearly all of the fifty states and several Canadian provinces.

6/18/2010: Pierce County was created by an act of the legislature of the Territory of Dakota in 1887. By 1891, the present shape of the county was finalized, with a total of 30 townships. Rugby Junction, a railroad station, was chosen as the county seat, over rival Barton. Even then, it was known mainly as just Rugby.

6/19/2010: Thanks to the quick-thinking of Matthew Steele, one of North Dakota's historical treasures was rescued from destruction.

6/23/2010: Members of the Capital City Gun Club were preparing the shooting range near Bismarck on this date six years ago, in anticipation of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Trap Shoot. The event was part of a multitude of statewide programs and celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the Corps of Discovery's landmark venture into the then-unknown Louisiana Territory.

6/26/2010: We all have a built-in personal identification system: our fingerprints. Like two snowflakes, no two people's fingerprints are identical.

6/29/2010: Western North Dakotan cattlemen were in an uproar on this date in 1904 after hearing of a ranchers' meeting in Helena, Montana the previous day. The meeting was called to select a committee to travel to Washington and argue against proposed legislation requiring the dipping of cattle to prevent the spread of cattle scab.

6/30/2010: On this date in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Pure Food and Drug Act, banning the use of harmful additives or preservatives in food or medicines. North Dakota had such a law three years earlier, in 1903.

7/3/2010: Fort Lincoln was authorized in 1896, and in 1902, it was built just southeast of Bismarck. Later, it would memorably serve as an internment camp, but for many years, it served as a military post, and was watched and washed by soldiers living there.

7/11/2010: On this date in 1951, a breath of history entered the city of Fargo in the person of pioneer O.A. Vangsness. Vangsness lived in Milwaukee then, but he once served as the mail carrier in Kindred.