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11/4/2004: Over the years, November 4th has often been Election Day. It was on this date in 1884 that Devils Lake was chosen as the seat of Ramsey County.

11/8/2004: Today is the birthday of Aloha Pearl Taylor Brown Eagles, who was born in 1916 in Duluth. She grew up in Crosby, MN, trained as a nurse after graduating, attended the U of M for a year, and graduated from Hibbing Junior College in 1936.

11/10/2004: Yesterday we began the story of Esther Burnett Horne, born in 1909 to a Scotch-Irishman, Finn Burnett, and a Shoshone woman, Millie Large. Essie’s early childhood in Idaho was a happy one, but when she was 13, her father died of a brain tumor. Essie’s mother was left with four pre-teens, a toddler and a baby on the way. Her savings were lost in the Teapot Dome scandal.

11/13/2004: At about this time in 1920, news came from Minot that whiskey runners appeared to be making their last trips of the season.

11/22/2004: In the early 20th century, Germany, England, France and Japan were all engaged in building huge battleships called dreadnoughts; they were named after the first of their kind, the HMS Dreadnought, built by the British in 1905. Dreadnoughts were made of steel with heavy armor plating and multiple large guns.

11/23/2004: George F. Shafer was born in the town of Taylor in Stark County on this date in 1888. He was the first governor of North Dakota who was actually born in the state. He filled the office twice, from 1929 to 1932.

12/1/2004: Mayville State University opened its doors as Mayville Normal School on this date in 1890.

12/7/2004: Lloyd Rigler, an entrepreneur and avid arts philanthropist, passed away one year ago in his home in California at the age of 88. He made his fortune with a recipe for a meat condiment.

12/10/2004: We’ve spent the last two days talking about the highest and second highest land-based, man-made structures in the world – both of them are in North Dakota: the KVLY tower near Blanchard and the KXJB tower near Galesburg. Today we bring you the story of another tower that was planned for the state but never happened. This mythical tower was the brainchild of internationally acclaimed artist, Siah Armajani. Armajani is Persian by birth; he was born in Iran in 1939. He came to the US in 1960, became a naturalized citizen and lives in Minneapolis.

12/16/2004: It was about four o’clock in the morning, on this date in 1913, that about 60 men smashed in the doors of the Williston jail, overpowered the sheriff and dragged Cleve Culbertson from his cell.