“Runaway Train” by the Minneapolis group Soul Asylum won a Grammy for best rock song.
Thanks to Mrs. Judi Vittito’s 6th grade class at Northfield Middle School for the research on September’s Day in History.
Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their help.
Archive for September, 2008
September 30, 1994
September 30, 2008September 29, 1964
September 29, 2008St. Paul’s first McDonald’s Restaurant opened on Fort Road. A burger costs fifteen cents.
Thanks to Mrs. Judi Vittito’s 6th grade class at Northfield Middle School for the research on September’s Day in History.
Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their help.
September 28, 1839
September 28, 2008Early St. Paul resident Edward Phelan was arrested for the murder of his partner, Joe Hays. He would be acquitted, but his character was so unsavory that many considered him guilty. Hays’s was the first death and the first murder in the city’s history.
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September 27, 1862
September 27, 2008The legislature allowed Minnesota’s Civil War soldiers to vote by passing the state’s first absentee ballot law.
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Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their help.
September 26, 1992
September 26, 2008The Minnesota Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in St. Paul.
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Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their help.
September 25,1867
September 25, 2008Horace Goodhue Jr., opens a prep school in Northfield with twenty, three students attending. The institution is first known as Northfield College, but a generous donation from William Carleton of Charlestown, Massachusetts, would inspire its current name, Carleton College.
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September 24, 1963
September 24, 2008President John F. Kennedy spoke at the University of Minnesota at Duluth on the subject of high unemployment in the northern Great Lakes area, where joblessness was about twice the national average.
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September 23, 1937
September 23, 2008Wheaton recorded a temperature of 101 degrees, but later in the day temperatures were below freezing as a storm front passed through the area.
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Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their [...]
September 22, 1968
September 22, 2008Cesar Tovar played all nine positions during a Twins game.
Thanks to Mrs. Judi Vittito’s 6th grade class at Northfield Middle School for the research on September’s Day in History.
Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their help.
September 21, 1836
September 21, 2008Fur trader Alexander Faribault contracts with mason Michel Le Laire to build a house in Mendota. The house is still standing.
Thanks to Mrs. Judi Vittito’s 6th grade class at Northfield Middle School for the research on September’s Day in History.
Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their help.
