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1/22/2012: J. A. Kitchen, North Dakota’s Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor, proposed a resolution to the State Legislature on this date in 1923.

1/23/2012: On this date in 1909, the White Star liner Republic was sailing along in the early hours through thick fog when it was rammed. The other ship, which quickly vanished in the night, was the Florida, from the Lloyd Italian Line.

4/7/2012: Throughout history, American cities tend to bustle with special excitement when a president visits. Not only do presidential visits inspire celebration and news, they usually secure a strong place in their own historical record.

4/8/2012: It is still referred to as the flood of the century-when the Red River struck in the spring of ’97. Only four years had passed from the destruction from the Great Fargo Fire when on this date in 1897, the crest was rolling northward as the Red River stunned Fargo and Grand Forks.

4/12/2012: In early 1919 the Great War was over in Europe. To the soldier, war is hell; to the poet, war is glory; but to everyone, war is expensive.

4/14/2012: CNN was wrapping up coverage of Red River Flooding on this date in 1997. The network reported about the process of post flood clean-up.

9/30/2011: The Grand Forks American, a Non-Partisan League daily newspaper, commenced publication on this date in 1918. The paper joined the Fargo Courier-News to become the second Non-Partisan daily in the state.

10/6/2011: Every small-town baseball player believes that with a little hard work, a lot of practice, and maybe a touch of luck, he’ll make it to the World Series. On this date in 1950, eighteen players of the Mayville North Dakota Red Caps donned their uniforms and rolled into Yankee Stadium – even though they only sat in the stands. Their hard work and a little luck are exactly how they got to see the Yankees win the World Series.

10/9/2011: Trail bosses knew the better the cook, the better the men he could hire, because one of the few pleasures in a cowpoke’s day was eating.

10/11/2011: Will Harrison was born in Iowa in 1875, but in constant search of a better life, his family moved around a lot. Will’s father died while he was still young, so he went to live with, and work for, a family named McCarty, whose name he eventually took as his own.