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12/1/2003: In 1907, The Dakota Farmer, a magazine for farm families, asked for letters explaining how women managed farm homes without hired girls.

12/7/2003: On this date in 1941, many North Dakotans witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, including Carl "Sim" Simensen.

12/9/2003: Today is the birthday of William Henry Pratt, the great-grandnephew of Anna Leonowens, the inspiration for the book and movie, "Anna and the King." He was born in England in 1887.

12/17/2003: In the early 1800s, millions of buffalo covered the prairies in vast thriving herds. But by the end of that century, the species had been all but wiped out.

12/19/2003: If you went to International Music Camp between 1956 and 1983, you most definitely remember the tall, silver-haired gentleman who ran the show – he was Merton Utgaard, the camp’s founder. He was born in Maddock in 1914, and today marks the anniversary of his death five years ago

1/29/2004: The last illegal execution in North Dakota happened in Schaefer on this date in 1931 when a mob seized a prisoner named Charles Bannon and lynched him a half mile from the jail.

2/2/2004: Today, we bring you the story of four consecutive governors – or five, depending on how you look at it. It was on this day in 1935 that Governor Thomas Moodie had to step down, because the state Supreme Court declared him ineligible to hold office – but wait, let’s start over...

2/4/2004: About eight miles north of Bismarck is a bluff on which the Mandan Indians once had a thriving village called Double Ditch Village, which is designated as a significant historic site.

2/13/2004: Twenty-one years ago today, there was a shootout between Federal Marshals, Gordon Kahl and other members of the Posse Comitatus on a road east of Medina.

2/17/2004: The anniversary of Frank James’s death in 1972 is reported as either this past Sunday or tomorrow, so today’s story lands somewhere in the middle.