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11/2/2003: On this date in 1889, North Dakota became the 39th state in the Union. Prior to this, the state was part of Dakota Territory, but there had been a growing rift between the south and north sections.

11/5/2003: On this date in 1968, William L. Guy became the first North Dakota governor ever elected to a fourth term. He served 2 two-year terms and 2 four-year terms between 1961 and 1973.

11/13/2003: On this date in 1943, Earl Charles Reineke married Jane Marie Early. He was a broadcaster, and she was a dancer and professional model. Before his death, Reineke established a foundation to establish an educational or scientific memorial in Fargo, and when she died, half of Mrs. Reineke’s estate was added to the foundation. Their shared dream materialized with the construction of the Reineke Fine Arts Center at NDSU in 1982.

11/15/2003: Today is the birthday of an important figure in the Battle of the Little Bighorn; he survived the battle but unfortunately lived out the remainder of his life in a swirl of controversy.

11/18/2003: In November, 1911, trains were making history in North Dakota, but it wasn’t for good reasons.

11/19/2003: “I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, and I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist. I'll butt it as long as I've got a head. I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old and fistless and footless and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to Glory, and it goes home to perdition!” Those were words spoken by the famous “Billy” Sunday – pro-baseball player turned preacher – who was born on this day in 1862.

11/20/2003: On this date in 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition moved into their winter camp on the upper Missouri River, 14 miles west of where Washburn now stands.

11/21/2003: Tonight, there will be a group performing in Jamestown that’s been described as “very scandalous due to its suggestive steps and verses.” The time of this description was 1776, and the dance was called El Chuchumbe, which arrived in Mexico via a boatload of Cubans. The Cuban immigrants were of ‘color quebrado’ – mixed bloods or mulattoes – and their dance styles were quickly condemned by the Mexican Holy Inquisition as being too sensuous.

11/22/2003: On this day in 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Less than two months earlier, he had been at UND to receive an honorary Doctorate of Law degree.

11/24/2003: In the late 1890s, the great western artist, Frederic Remington, came to Northern Dakota on a hunting expedition.