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It was on this date in 1735 that the first opera performance in America took place. The opera was Flora, and it was performed in Charleston, South…

On this date in 1868, Sondre Norheim competed in Norway’s very first national skiing competition. He had never competed outside his home territory of…

It was on this date in 1910 that William Dickson Boyce founded the Boy Scouts of America. His mission was inspired by an event a year earlier when he got…

Today’s story is about boodlers. Definition: those who obtain money through corruption. On this date in 1890, Senate Bill 167 was introduced to the…

This Sunday will be Jim Kleinsasser’s birthday. He was born in 1977 in Carrington, and at 6’3? and 272 pounds, he became a tight end for the Minnesota…

On this date in 1971, a young man named Steve Blehm scored 85 points during the Ramsey County basketball tournament in Starkweather. That’s right, 85…

Today is the birthday of Hariette Lake, who was born in 1909 in Valley City. Her mother was an opera singer and her father was a “traveling thespian."When…

Orin A. Stevens was born on a farm in Kansas in 1885, where he began his lifelong habit of observing birds and bees and plants. His interest in nature…

In the 1890s, World Champion speed skater, John Johnson, raced a young teenager in Bathgate, North Dakota. Afterwards, Johnson told a Minneapolis…

News from around the state on this date:In 1894, Fessenden was itching to take over the Wells County seat, which they took from Sykeston ten days earlier.…