Today in North Dakota History
August 17, 1825 |
The Yellowstone Expedition under Gen. Henry Atkinson reached its destination -- the mouth of the Yellowstone River -- and established Camp Balfour. |
August 17, 1889 |
Writing of the North Dakota Constitution completed. |
August 17 |
1825 The Yellowstone Expedition under General Henry Atkinson reached its destination -- the mouth of the Yellowstone River. |
August 18, 1919 |
The first local Business and Professional Womens club in North Dakota was organized at Grand Forks, where the state organization had been organized earlier the same year. |
August 18, 1864 |
General Alfred Sully and his Yellowstone Expedition arrived at Fort Union Trading Post on the Missouri River, about 20 miles southwest of present day Williston. |
August 19 |
1889 Gov. Mellette called an election on Oct. 1, 1889, for adoption or rejection of the North Dakota Constitution and election of first state officials. |
August 20 |
1806 Returning from a successful trip to the Pacific, the Lewis and Clark Expedition left the area of present-day North Dakota for St. Louis. |
August 21, 1867 |
Pembina County was founded as part of Dakota Territory. |
August 22 |
1883 Construction of the Northern Pacific Railway line to the Pacific Coast was completed, although the formal Gold Spike ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana, was delayed until Sept. 8 of the same year. |
August 23 |
1868 Indians attacked a detail of six soldiers and two civilian scouts at Palmer Springs, in southwestern Benson County, killing three of them. They were driving a mail wagon between Fort Totten and Fort Stevenson. |
August 24 |
1884 Wells County was organized. It was named for E. P. Wells, a member of the Dakota Territory Assembly. |
August 25 |
1919 Brian Karr was killed in an airplane crash at Sutton, possibly the first fatal airplane accident in North Dakota. |
August 26 |
1962 Vilhjalmur Stefansson died at age 82 at Hanover, New Hampshire/ The famed Arctic explorer grew up in Pembina County and attended the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks. He was born Nov. 3, 1879, at Arnes, Manitoba. |
August 27, 1903 |
The North Dakota Bankers Association opened a two-day reorganization convention in Grand Forks, after having been inactive for a decade. |
August 28, 1857 |
Construction was begun on Fort Abercrombie, the first garrisoned military fort in North Dakota. In the Sioux uprising of 1862, the fort would be under siege for a month. |
August 28, 1928 |
Governor A.G. Sorlie died in office. |
August 29, 1833 |
Two famous fur traders, William Sublette and Robert Campbell, arrived at the mouth of the Yellowstone River in western North Dakota, there to establish Fort William in opposition to the American Fur Company's Fort Union. |
August 30, 1801 |
Walsh County is organized. |
August 31, 1941 |
The million-dollar Grand Forks municipal airport dedicated. |
September 1, 1801 |
John Cameron of Hudson Bay Company sent Alexander Henry to build a fur trading post at Grand Forks. |
September 1, 1864 |
A wagon train under the command of Captain James L. Fisk was attacked by Sioux. Among the 12 men killed was the scout, Jefferson Dilts, for whom a temporary defense work was named. Fort Dilts is near Rhame, north of U.S. Highway 12. |
September 2, 1892 |
A two-day gathering urging tariff reciprocity between Canada and the United States, "the first convention held to consider this question in the world," adjourned at Fargo. |
September 3, 1950 |
231st Engineering Battalion ordered into federal service for Korean emergency. |
September 3, 1863 |
The first day of the three-day Battle of Whitestone Hill, last major Indian conflict east of the Missouri River. The site is southeastern North Dakota near Ellendale. Commanding the Army forces was General Alfred Sully. |
September 3, 1862 |
The Minnesota Massacre of 1862 extended to the five-year-old military fort, Abercrombie, located at the eastern edge of Dakota Territory. A 26-day siege got underway on this day. |
September 3, 1950 |
The Clarence Iverson, Williston Basin discovery well, was spudded in; seven months later black gold was produced and a new North Dakota industry was born. |
September 4, 1932 |
Fort Dilts State Park dedicated near Rhame. |
September 5, 1933 |
Second cornerstone laying for new state Capitol, under administration of Governor Langer. |
September 5, 1883 |
The cornerstone for the Dakota Territory capitol building was laid at Bismarck. Among those present were General Ulysses S. Grant, James J. Hill of the Great Northern, President Henry Willard of the Northern Pacific, newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, Sitting Bull, Generals H.H. Sibley and W.D. Washburn, and the Chicago merchant, Marshall Field. |
September 5, 1963 |
A shelterbelt laboratory of the Lake States Forest Experiment Station was dedicated at Bottineau. |
September 6, 1878 |
President Rutherford B. Hayes visited Red River Valley bonanza wheat farms near Casselton. |
September 7, 1947 |
Radio Station KNOX began broadcasting at Grand Forks. |
September 7, 1883 |
Theodore Roosevelt arrived at Little Missouri for first time on buffalo hunting trip. |
September 8, 1951 |
Thomas E. Whelan sworn in at Bismarck as U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua. |
September 8, 1884 |
The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, opens its doors to first students. |
September 14, 1901 |
Theodore Roosevelt became President upon the death of William McKinley, eight days after McKinley was shot by an anarchist assassin. Roosevelt said he would never had become President had it not been for his experience of living in the Badlands of North Dakota. |
September 13, 1872 |
First train enters Jamestown. |
September 17, 1851 |
By treaty negotiated at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation was established as the home of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes. |
September 17, 1930 |
The International Peace Garden was incorporated in New York as a result of a proposal from the National Association of Gardeners, of the United States, meeting at Toronto in 1929. Late in 1931 the garden site was selected in the heart of the continent, in North Dakota and Manitoba. |
September 21 |
1905 The First Church of Christ, Scientist at Grand Forks, the first Christian Science church erected in North Dakota, was dedicated. |
September 21 |
1951 The Franklin P. Wood Station of Minnkota Power Cooperative at Grand Forks was dedicated at a program featuring Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio and REA Administrator Claude R. Vickard. |
September 21, 1951 |
Franklin P. Wood Station of Minnkota Power Cooperative dedicated at program featuring Senator Robert A. Taft and REA Administrator Claude R. Wickard at Grand Forks. |
September 22, 1899 |
North Dakota's Spanish-American War troops mustered out of federal service. |
September 22 |
1899 North Dakota Spanish-American War troops were mustered out of federal service. |
September 23 |
1796 The Spanish Flag was flown on this date over the Mandan-Hidatsa trading post in the Fort Clark vicinity of what now is North Dakota. The banner was raised by James Evans, a Spanish subject who had come up the Missouri River. |
September 24 |
1809 Big White, chief of the Mandans, who had gone downriver with Lewis and Clark three years earlier to visit the "Great White Father" in Washington, finally was returned to his people by a well-armed contingent led by the Missouri fur trader, Pierre Chauteau. |
September 25, 1963 |
President John F. Kennedy spoke at a University of North Dakota convocation in Grand Forks. |
September 25 |
1840 William N. Roach, U. S. senator from North Dakota 1893-99, was born in Louden County, Virgina. |
September 26 |
1847 George B. Winship, founder of the Grand Forks Herald and the state's leading editor at the time of statehood, was born in Saco, Maine. |
September 27 |
1892 The Grand Forks Trades and Labor Assembly formed a permanent organization, electing Frank Connors of the Cigar Makers Union as its first president. |