Frozen trick or treaters wore snowsuits as the snow fell, in one of the most historic early season snow storms in Minnesota history. There was up to 36.6 inches of snow. Southern Minnesota saw an ice storm. Extremely cold temperatures that followed the storm hindered highway snow removal. Snow fell occasionally from 1 to [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Oct 31, 1991
October 31, 2008October 30
October 30, 2008Henry Sibley a delegate from the territories of Wisconsin and Minnesota was born in Detroit Michigan on February 20th 1811. He attended the Detroit Academy and also studied under private tutors and studies law. Then he moved to Mackinac and entered the service of the American Fur company justice of the peace in 1831. [...]
October 29, 1896
October 29, 2008The Samuel P. Ely made a trip to Duluth in tow of the Hesper, a 250-foot steamer, along with the Negaunee, a similar barge. Both barges were loaded with limestone from Kelley’s Island, Ohio. The steamer had a coal cargo. The three ships passed up through the Sault Locks on October 24 and arrived at [...]
October 28
October 28, 2008Record snowfall hits Minnesota! Snowflakes were sighted across central and parts of southern Minnesota on October 28. The effect of the still warm waters of Lake Superior were observed with a drive up Highway 1 in Lake County that morning. Near the lake there was virtually no snow on the ground. The ground was [...]
October 27, 1991
October 27, 2008The 1991 World Series was played between the Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves. Game 7 of this series was a great one. The winning pitcher was Jack Morris. The losing pitcher was Alejandro Pena. It was scoreless through 10 innings. In the bottom of the 10th inning Dan Gladden led off the inning with [...]
October 26, 1960
October 26, 2008After years of struggling with attendance, and fighting with baseball, and city officials Calvin Griffith the owner of the original Senators gets approval to move. The approval comes as the American League decides to expand 1 year earlier then planned. Part of the approval comes because one of the two expansion teams will be placed [...]
October 25, 2002
October 25, 2008Paul Wellstone was killed in a plane crash. He was a 58-year-old former professor on his way to Virginia, Minnesota to attend a funeral of Martin Rukavina, father of Minnesota State Senator, Tom Rukavina. He was with his wife Sheila, his daughter Marcia, his two sons David and Mark who were 37 and 30, and [...]
October 24th 2001
October 24, 2008A powerful blizzard moved through the Upper Midwest on October 24 and 25, 2001. This blizzard, the first of the season, brought strong winds of over 50 mph to places like St. Cloud and Rochester. One of the higher wind gusts reported was 55 mph in Rochester on October 25. This storm also brought the [...]
October 23, 1930
October 23, 2008Sinclair Lewis publishes Main Street which earns the Nobel Prize
American novelist, playwright, and social critic who gained popularity with satirical novels. Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first given to American. His total output includes 22 novels and three plays.
Main Street, published late in 1920, was my first novel to [...]
October 22, 1989
October 22, 2008Jacob Erwin Wetterling, an eleven year old from St. Joseph Minnesota, was kidnapped while riding his bike with his brother, and a friend back from the convenience store. When a masked gunman told them all to put their bikes on the ground and lay down by the curb. When Jacob told his brother and his [...]
