This Week in History (17-23 August): SUNDAY: 1877 Billy the Kid kills his first man; 1969 Woodstock concludes; 1987 Hitler’s last henchman dies; 1998 Pres. Clinton testifies before a grand jury MONDAY: 1227 Genghis Khan dies; 1590 Roanoke Colony is deserted; 1795 Pres. Washington signs the Jay Treaty; 1920 The amendment granting woman suffrage is ratified; 2012 Scott McKenzie dies TUESDAY: 1812 Old Ironsides earns its name; 1895 John Wesley Hardin is killed; 1934 Hitler becomes president of Germany; 1946 Pres. Clinton is born WEDNESDAY: 1804 Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery suffers its only death; 1833 Pres. B Harrison is born; 1920 Professional football is born THURSDAY: 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates begin; 1911 Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered; 1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th state FRIDAY: 1848 Pres. Grant marries Julia Boggs Dent; 1864 The International Red Cross is founded SATURDAY: 1784 4 counties in NC declare their independence as the state of Franklin; 1927 Sacco and Vanzetti are executed; 1939 The Hitler-Stalin Pact is signed This Week in Minnesota History: SUNDAY: 1862 5 young Dakota men, on a dare, murder the Baker family on a farm near Acton in Meeker County. Upon hearing this news, Dakota leaders decide to launch a general attack on settlers near the Lower Sioux Agency, thus beginning the U.S.–Dakota War MONDAY: --- TUESDAY: 1862 The Dakota bypass Fort Ridgely and make their first attack on New Ulm during the US-Dakota War, and Gov. Alexander Ramsey appoints Henry Sibley general of the Minnesota Volunteers WEDNESDAY: 1892 On St. Pauls East Side, a five-story building collapses into Swede Hollow THURSDAY: 1860 A group of abolitionists in Minneapolis persuade Judge Charles E. Vanderburgh to issue a writ of habeas corpus or an order to bring to court Eliza Winston, a slave of a visiting southern family; 1965 The Beatles perform at Metropolitan Stadium to an estimated crowd of 4,000 teenagers FRIDAY: 1888 The Minnesota Farmers Alliance and the Knights of Labour hold a conference to organise the Farm and Labour Party; 1912 Coya Knutson is born in Edmore, ND. In 1954 she would become the first female member of congress from Minnesota SATURDAY: 1862 24 townspeople are killed at the second Battle of New Ulm during the U.S.–Dakota War Photos: Parade for womens suffrage; Lincoln-Douglas debate; Sacco and Vanzetti; US-Dakota War collage
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