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11/10/2011: On this date in 1910, reaction was swift to a news story given to reporters in Grand Forks. The story related how C. M. Ziebach, a 107- year-old Indian had been arrested on the Fort Totten Reservation by Deputy U. S. Marshall H. P. Wood.

11/22/2011: Most Americans alive on today's date in 1963 likely remember where they were when John F. Kennedy was brutally murdered during his final, and tragic, presidential Dallas motorcade. North Dakota native Clint Hill has it etched in his life – he was in the fray.

11/24/2011: North Dakotans across the state will find themselves gathered around the holiday table today, surrounded by family, friends, and probably a whole lot of food. Seventy-five years ago, caught in the height of the Great Depression, many people found themselves grateful to have even a warm meal this Thanksgiving.

11/29/2011: In November 1961, the city of Grand Forks removed two trees that stood outside the Dacotah Hotel. It was a simple task and only took a few minutes, but it still resounded with unorthodox controversy.

11/25/2011: Devils Lake announced that it had surpassed its collection goals during a recent scrap metal drive on this date in 1942. Scrap drives, in which people collected and salvaged all manners of things, became a common feature of the home front during World War II.

12/2/2011: On this date in 1942, in an inconspicuous laboratory at the University of Chicago, a handful of men gathered around a controlled laboratory in which they had carefully arranged a pile of wooden timbers and uranium bricks. Throughout the morning, these scientists had been ever-so-slowly pulling cadmium rods out of the pile, taking careful measurements of the result.

12/8/2011: The First National Bank of Wilton was held-up by three armed men on this date in 1931. The heist was the sixth attempted bank robbery of the year for the area, but, the Wilton News added, “Robberies this year have not been profitable for the bank bandits.”

12/12/2011: For some battle-hardened soldiers, the most difficult mission they can be assigned is behind a desk. Born in Illinois on this date in 1856, Frank Charles White moved to Dakota Territory as a young man. He quickly involved himself in the newly organized Dakota National Guard where he served as Captain of the Valley City unit. A few years later, during the Spanish-American War, White distinguished himself as commander of the First North Dakota Infantry, even earning a Silver Star for bravery during combat.

12/15/2011: With the Christmas holiday soon approaching, many North Dakotans will soon embark on that annual pilgrimage to select the perfect Christmas tree. The first Christmas tree in North Dakota, however, was not nearly so easy to secure.

12/16/2011: Governor Lynn Frazier called a historic special session of the State Legislature on this date in 1919. Although billed as a meeting to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women’s suffrage, the session would be remembered as an “affront against democracy” by the Non-Partisan League.