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9/28/2004: On this date in 1916, William Jennings Bryan spoke to more than 3,000 people gathered at the Grand Forks city auditorium. He was in the state to support the Democratic ticket, and it was his ninth speech in the state that day.

9/30/2004: Today is the birthday of legendary actress, Angie Dickinson. Her given name was Angeline Brown, but the name for which she is better known came from her first husband, semi-pro football player Gene Dickinson.

10/9/2004: It’s time to check in on Charlie Colgrove, a Dickinson cowboy who wasn’t afraid to talk. Charlie and his brother, Bill, started the Lime Kiln Ranch in 1882, “just off in those big hills northeast of Lefor.” A few years later, they started another one on Thirty-Mile Creek.

10/12/2004: It was on this date in 1944 that Army Staff Sergeant Jack Pendleton became a hero. It was also the last day of his life.

10/30/2004: On this day in 1941, a Northwest Airlines passenger plane crashed north of Moorhead where the American Crystal Sugar plant would later stand. The flight originated in Minneapolis and was to land in Fargo, but as the plane flew over Barnesville, MN, pilot Clarence Bates noticed ice on his wings. As he descended to 600 feet, he realized he was in trouble.

11/5/2004: Tomorrow, it will be 29 years since Clifton E. Cushman was officially declared dead. He had been missing in action since September 25th, 1966, when his F-105 Thunderchief went down over the Haiphong area of Vietnam. He was 28.

11/6/2004: At this point in 1952, Harvey Highschool football players and fans were trying to get something straight. Were they the Central Conference champs or weren’t they? They were undefeated going into the final game, which ended in a tie. With Rugby. Which was also undefeated going into the final game.

11/7/2004: An album that won a Grammy in 1978 was actually recorded in Fargo on this date in 1940. Duke Ellington played to a full house at the Crystal Ballroom that night, and the concert was recorded.

11/9/2004: Today is the birthday of Esther Burnett Horne, who is featured in “Essie’s Story: The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher.” Essie was born in 1909, and the book, which she co-authored with Sally McBeth, was published in 1998, a year before Horne died.

11/11/2004: On September 12, 1918, a Minot story read, “Shortage of labor threatens to greatly curtail the supply of lignite coal this fall and winter from mines near this point.” By January, the story read, “Lignite coal miners in the Burlington, Minot and Noonan districts threaten a strike on January 15 if they are not given a 20 percent raise. So far, the government has taken no action...”