This Week in History (23-29 June): SUNDAY: --- MONDAY: 1862 Pres. Lincoln consults Winfield Scott; 1885 Pres. Wilson marries Ellen Axson; 1953 Pres. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announce engagement TUESDAY: 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn; 1942 Pres. Eisenhower takes command of US troops in Europe; 1950 The Korean War begins; 2009 Michael Jackson dies WEDNESDAY: 1917 First US troops arrive in France; 1948 Berlin Airlift begins THURSDAY: --- FRIDAY: 1836 Pres. Madison dies; 1914 Archduke Ferdinand is killed; 1919 Pres. Truman marries Bess Wallace SATURDAY: 1966 Vietnam air war escalates; 1972 Supreme Court strikes down death penalty; 2003 Katharine Hepburn dies at 96 This Week in Minnesota History: SUNDAY: --- MONDAY: 1948 African American leaders in the Twin Cities reject an offer to establish an "all-Negro" unit of the Minnesota National Guard TUESDAY: 1849 Territorial governor Alexander Ramsey arrives in St. Paul with his wife Anna, their son, and a nurse WEDNESDAY: --- THURSDAY: 1928 Rudy Perpich is born in Carson Lake, near Hibbing FRIDAY: 1818 Congress extends the area of Michigan Territory, bringing present-day Minnesota under its domain SATURDAY: 1837 Elizabeth S. Hamilton, widow of Alexander, visits Fort Snelling and views points of interest including Lake Calhoun, Minnehaha Falls, and the Falls of St. Anthony; 1863 A group of Dakota who had avoided capture after the 1862 war attack the Dustin farm near Howard Lake in Wright County, killing 4 settlers Photos: Pres. James Madison; Gov. Alexander Ramsey
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