June 20 1823

Jesse Reno is born in Wheeling, West Virginia. In 1853 General Reno would survey the military road from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Mendota, a route of 279 miles.

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June 19 1852

By an act of Congress, the St. Peter’s River is renamed with its original Dakota name, “Minnesota,” translated as either “sky-colored waters” or “muddy water.” The river had been known as “St. Pierre” for 150 years, since the days of the explorer Pierre Charles Le Sueur.

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June 18 1939

In the Anoka area, a tornado takes nine lives, injures 222, causes $1 million in damages.

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June 17 1913

The first “Minnesota Good Roads Day” is declared. The national Good Roads Movement was spurred by two forces: bicyclists who wanted to ride on better surfaces than muddy country lanes, and Rural Free Delivery, the post office’s promise to deliver mail to and from farms that were easily accessible by road.

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June 16 1854

Arriving in St. Paul, the steamer Galena delivers cholera along with its passengers. Cholera’s last occurrence in Minnesota would be in 1873.

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June 15 1920

Three African American workers for the John Robinson circus are lynched in Duluth. The men were accused of raping a white woman. Ignoring the pleas of a priest and a judge, a mob of 5,000 breaks into the city jail and hangs the men from a lamppost.

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June 14 1981

A tornado travels from Edina to Minneapolis to Roseville, killing one, injuring eighty-three, and causing $47 million in losses.

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June 13 1991

Lightning kills a spectator at the U.S. Open in Chaska.

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June 12 1914

The last commercially cut logs pass through Stillwater’s boom on the St. Croix, which is the end of the large-scale logging in the St. Croix Valley.

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June 11 1835

Thomas Williamson and Alexander Huggins organize a church at Fort Snelling the first Protestant church in Minnesota.

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