St. Peter and St. Paul Russian Orthodox Church, Bramble

A sanctuary for Russian immigrants in Koochiching County

St. Peter and St. Paul Russian Orthodox Church, Bramble

1975 Minneapolis Non-Discrimination Ordinance

Civil rights protection that was the first of its kind in the US

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Flooding of the Red River, 1997

The eighth-costliest flood in US history

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Frontenac State Park

A dramatic landscape 500 million years in the making

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Flour City Ornamental Iron Works Strike, 1935

A conflict between workers and police that led to two deaths

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Ulrich, Mabel S. (1876–1945)

From sex education to the Federal Writers' Project

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Washburn A Mill

The birthplace of one of the biggest modern food companies in the world

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Pardon Power in Nineteenth-Century Minnesota

An era of unprecedented clemency via executive power

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This Day in Minnesota History (August 01)

1820

Lewis Cass, governor of Michigan Territory, negotiates a peace treaty between the Dakota and Ojibwe at Fort St. Anthony (later called Fort Snelling).

1849

Henry H. Sibley is elected delegate to Congress, and other state officers are chosen in Minnesota's first territorial election.

1870

The Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad inaugurates rail travel between St. Paul and Duluth.

1989

Duluth holds its first Bayfront Blues Festival. Originally a small, one-day regional event, it has grown into one of the major blues festivals in the country, attracting fans from all over the world, hosting over 200 blues performers of national and regional acclaim, and growing in attendance from about 1,000 the first year to nearly 60,000 over a three-day period in 1998.

2007

The Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis collapses during the evening rush hour. Thirteen people are killed and 145 are injured.

2018

Comunidades Latinas Unidas en Servicio (CLUES) hosts a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the expansion of its St. Paul headquarters. The nonprofit, which was founded in 1981, provides vital services to Minnesota’s Latinx community.

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