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1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 1854: Hamline University 1863: Colonel Colvill 1863: Red Wing Ferry 1874: Flour mill 1877: Stoneware plant 1878: President Hayes 1881: Lucius Hubbard 1890: Sea Wing disaster 1895: Bridge across Mississippi 1895: Frances Densmore 1902: Public library 1905: Red Wing shoes 1913: Fire truck 1932: Swimming pool 1947: Parking meters 1960: Interstate bridge 1849: Minnesota Territory 1851: Treaties 1858: Minnesota becomes a state 1862: Dakota Conflict 1869: University of Minnesota 1873: Grasshopper plague 1882: Electric waterpower 1882: Mayo Clinic 1894: Hinckley Fire 1905: New capitol 1916: Winter Carnival 1922: WLAG radio 1923: Metropolitan Airport 1940: Aquatennial 1954: Streetcars discontinued 1956: Southdale opens 1968: American Indian Movement 1982: HHH Metrodome 1992: Mall of America 1839: Baseball 1848: Seneca Falls 1857: Elevators invented 1861: Civil War 1876: Telephone invented 1888: Box Camera invented 1892: Iron and steel workers strike 1903: Self-propelled flight 1909: NAACP 1917: World War I 1920: Nineteenth Ammendment 1933: New Deal 1936: Jesse Owens 1941: World War II 1945: Atom bomb 1951: Color TV invented 1954: McCarthyism 1963: Freedom March 1963: J.F.K. assassinated 1969: Apollo 11 1971: Cigarette ad ban 1971: Nixon resigns 1985: Internet

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