June 30 1888

Alexander McDougall launches the first whaleback freighter onto Lake Superior.

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

June 29 1863

A group of Dakota who had avoided capture after the 1862 war attack the Dustin farm near Howard Lake in Wright County, killing four settlers.

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

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June 28 1849

Amherst Willoughby begins stagecoach service between St. Paul and St. Anthony.

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

June 27 1975

The taxicab drivers of the Twin Cities split from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to establish their own union, the Guild of Taxi Drivers and Associated Workers.

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

June 26 1959

President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth open the St. Lawrence Seaway in an official ceremony in Montreal. The seaway connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, making Duluth and other lake cities international ports.

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

June 25 1977

First Grandma’s marathon is run from two harbors in Duluth. Draws over 8,500 contestants annually.

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

June 24 1929

A Northwest Airlines plane crashes in Indian Mounds Park in St. Paul. The pilot was killed.

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

June 23 1975

The Discoverer, a Danish passenger ship, calls at Duluth. No international passenger ships would return to Minnesota for twenty-two years.

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

June 22 1861

The First Minnesota Regiment departs Fort Snelling for Washington, D.C.

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

June 21 1983

Seventeen inches of rain fall in Forest City.

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