MARCH 31, 1810

James M. Goodhue, a newspaper editor, is born in New Hampshire and
later established the territory’s first newspaper, the Minnesota Pioneer, which promoted the territory.

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

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MARCH 30, 1844

Stillwater’s first sawmill (owned by John McKusick) cut its first board, the start of over 60 years of milling in the city.

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

MARCH 29, 1857

William G. Le Duc is born in Ohio and later built the first mill, in Hastings in 1857, to offer spring wheat flour.

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

MARCH 28, 1924

The “Great Beneficial Blizzard” ends a drought, bringing 25 inches of snow to southern Minnesota.

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

MARCH 27, 1819

President James Monroe appoints Lawrence Taliaferro as Indian agent at St. Peter’s. He showed honesty toward and concern for the Indians, maintained peace between Dakota and Ojibwe tribes, and regulated relations between Indians and settlers.

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

MARCH 26, 1804

Present-day MN west of the Mississippi River is included in the District of Louisiana to be governed by Indiana Territory.

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

MARCH 25, 1854

John Lind is born in Sweden. He became the first Swede to be elected
governor of MN, the first Swede elected to Congress, and became President Woodrow Wilson’s envoy to Mexico in 1913.

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MARCH 24, 1858

The printing press of the St. Cloud Visitor is destroyed by a mob because the paper’s editor, Jane Grey Swisshelm, a feminist and abolitionist, had angered Sylvanus B. Lowry, a local businessman and slave owner.

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

MARCH 23, 1971

Minnesota is among the first states to ratify the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution (which gives US citizens 18 years of age or older the right to vote in local, state, and national elections).

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

MARCH 22, 1958

Movie producer Mike Todd (born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen in Minneapolis in 1909), who won an Oscar for Around the World in 80 Days, dies in an airplane crash.

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