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5/30/2012: During the Philippine Insurrection and the Spanish American War in the late 1890s, many North Dakotans quickly volunteered for duty, and they were sent to a strange and different land in the Philippines, where they endured harsh conditions.

5/31/2012: It had been two years since the US-Dakota Conflict of 1862 and, as part of the campaign to counter spreading hostilities, the Army planned to establish forts along the Missouri River, including the existing Fort Union Trading Post.

6/1/2012: The Garrison Dam is the fifth largest dam in the United States. It is 210 feet high, and two and a half miles long. With five hydropower generating units in the powerhouse, it produces enough electricity to supply the electrical needs of a large city. It is responsible for creating Lake Sakakawea, the third largest man-made lake in the country.

6/3/2012: Governor John Hoeven nominated the design for the North Dakota Commemorative Quarter on this date in 2005.

6/5/2012: The Treaty of Ghent in 1814 ended the War of 1812 and established a Commission to set the boundary between the United States and Canada. In 1822 this commission established the boundary at the 49th Parallel, but for the next fifty years there was little attention paid to it.

6/8/2012: Many American cities in the 19th century were plagued by raging fires made more dangerous in their devastation by a combination of wooden buildings and limited firefighting practices. Heating by wood and coal-fired stoves was as much a threat as it was a comfort in the 1800s. Wooden buildings in town, resting closely side by side above wooden boardwalks were primed for out-of-control fires.

6/17/2012: Pierre Chouteau, Jr. arrived at Fort Union in June of 1865 greatly distressed. He knew he was about to lose out on ownership of the fort.

6/20/2012: It can arguably be called the most stunning and impactful photograph in North Dakota’s legacy of tough weather.

6/21/2012: Today’s DATEBOOK examines the story of a baseball game on this date in 1913, when Jose Mendez, a Hall of Fame Cuban pitcher, played in the small town of Havana, North Dakota.

6/23/2012: On this date in 1927, the Sioux County Pioneer reported that President Calvin Coolidge would be adopted into the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.