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1775
Alexander Henry the elder, one of the first Englishmen to visit to present-day Minnesota, travels up the Pigeon River to Partridge Portage.
1887
A police officer is shot while trying to break up a riot at a saloonkeepers' picnic in St. Paul.
1889
The federal government and the Red Lake Ojibwe sign a treaty that cedes 2,905,000 "surplus" acres from the reservation. Rather than distributing the remaining reservation land to individual tribe members as allotments, this treaty allows the Red Lake Ojibwe to hold the land in common, thereby protecting it from piecemeal sale.
1939
Duluth's streetcars operate for one final day before being replaced by trolley buses.