February 9, 1899

The temperature hits -59 degrees at Leech Lake, a record low that stood until 1996, a week later the temperature increases 104 degrees to 45 degrees.

Thanks to Tim Holbrook’s Fourth Grade class from Madison Elementary in St Cloud for the research on January’s Day in History.

Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their help.

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February 8, 1905

The Minnesota Federation of Colored Women’s Club is organized in St. Paul.

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Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their help.

February 7, 1851

The territorial legislature votes to make St. Paul the capital and to put the prison in Stillwater.

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Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their help.

February 6, 1996

Governor Arne Carlson closed all state schools due to extreme cold temperatures and wind-chill.

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Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their help.

February 5, 1924

Forty-one-ore miners drown or were fatally buried in mud, and seven more escape by climbing a ladder. The Milford mine disaster happened North of Crosby on the Cuyuna Range in northern Minnesota when a nearby lake suddenly emptied into an underground mining operation. A county inspector, who had visited the mine the week before the accident, would later state that every precaution had been taken and that the flooding was unavoidable.

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Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their help.

February 4, 1893

Sen. Williams Dean offers a resolution in the Minnesota Senate that the “Wild Lady-Slipper” or “Moccasin Flower” be named the state flower. The resolution was adopted in both houses. In 1902 a resolution changing it to the Pink and White Lady Slipper was adopted after it was found the Wild Lady Slipper did not grow in MN.

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Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their help.

February 3, 1931

Airmail service between the Twin Cities and Winnipeg begins.

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Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their help.

February 2, 1996

MN coldest temperature in recorded at Tower, a minimum extreme of 60 degrees below zero.

Thanks to Tim Holbrook’s Fourth Grade class from Madison Elementary in St Cloud for the research on February’s Day in History.

Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their help.

February 1, 1886

St. Paul’s winter carnival opens, hosting competitions in curling, skating, ice polo, and boasting the first ice palace.

Thanks to Tim Holbrook’s Fourth Grade class from Madison Elementary in St Cloud for the research on February’s Day in History.

Thanks also to Minnesota’s Learn and Serve America Service Learning Program for their help.