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8/19/2012: A large party of Dakota Sioux attacked New Ulm, Minnesota, on this date in 1862 and began a siege of the small prairie outpost.

8/20/2012: North Dakota had a larger role than most people realize during the Cold War fever that swept the country. Missile facilities existed throughout the state, such as the Oscar-Zero Missile Alert Facility and the November-33 Launch Facility, which make up the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile State Historic Site. Citizens served in various functions throughout the decades of the cold war, but in August of 1962, North Dakota’s involvement took an interesting twist, as it hosted a site designated for target practice.

9/2/2012: On this date in 1892, Fargo North Dakota adjourned an important international conference.

9/7/2012: A bloody battle was raging during the Korean War in September 1951. Americans back home thought only South Koreans were fighting at this time, but war correspondents learned that nearly a thousand Americans had become casualties after two weeks of fighting for three remote mountains in southeast North Korea.

9/8/2012: The Community Welfare Association was started in Fargo in 1927 to coordinate a community-wide effort to help meet human service needs.

9/12/2012: In 1958, it was reported that the Kenmare Association of Commerce had overwhelmingly voted to begin restoring a 50-year-old grain-grinding windmill located 11 miles north of Kenmare.

9/14/2012: The noted Hunkpapa Lakota warrior, Rain-in-the-Face, died at his home on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota on this date in 1905. His name was one that often carried terror with it, and he was among the Indian leaders who defeated Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment at the 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn.

6/13/2012: On this date in 1920, farmers in North Dakota were lamenting the state of their crops. The weather was hot, but dry; and without rain, prospects looked poor – until the following day, when the rain began.

6/14/2012: Military forts established on America’s western frontier were often named in honor of military personnel – soldiers from enlisted men through generals. They commemorated individual for bravery, military record, death or wounds on the field of battle, or length of service. For example, Fort Lincoln in Texas in was named in 1848 for U.S. Infantry Captain George Lincoln, killed in action the previous year.

6/15/2012: On this date in 1943, the president of Minot State Teachers College, C.C. Swain, announced that the college would sign contracts with the U.S. Navy to start a V-12 officer training program, which would not only help the military by producing college-educated officers for World War II, it would also help Minot State College cope with declining enrollment because so many young men were going off to war.