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Stewart, Jacob Henry (1829–1884)

A doctor, mayor, congressman, and Civil War veteran

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Peterson Bluebird Nest Box

A conservation success story that started in Brooklyn Center

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Strutwear Knitting Company Strike

The longest of three major labor disputes in Minneapolis between 1935 and 1936

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Hungry Mind (bookstore)

A tiny St. Paul bookshop that grew into a regional favorite with a national reach

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Bohemian Flats

A resilient immigrant community in Minneapolis that outlasted floods and disease

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Jun Fujita Cabin, Rainy Lake

The North Woods hideaway of an internationally renowned photographer

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Raymond, Leona Evelyn (1908–1998)

A sculptor who got her start in the WPA Federal Art Project

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St. Peter and St. Paul Russian Orthodox Church, Bramble

A sanctuary for Russian immigrants in Koochiching County

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This Day in Minnesota History (December 11)

1876

Ada Louise Comstock is born in Moorhead. She became the first dean of women at the University of Minnesota and then, beginning in 1912, served as dean of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Although she in effect ran the school from 1917 to 1918, she was not given the title of "acting president" because she was a woman. She became the first president of the American Association of University Women in 1921 and served as president of Radcliffe College from 1923 to 1943.

1895

After a sensational trial, Harry T. Hayward is hanged in a Minneapolis jail for the murder of Katherine Ging, owner of a fashionable dressmaking establishment. He had arranged for her to be killed so that he could collect her life insurance money.

1956

The dwellings in Swede Hollow, a St. Paul immigrant neighborhood, are burned after the city health department declares them contaminated.

1970

Norman E. Borlaug, University of Minnesota alumnus and crop researcher, receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his research in hybridizing wheat to increase crop yields. Borlaug is known as the father of the green revolution.

1999

St. Paul native Paul Molitor announces his retirement from baseball, having spent his final three seasons with the Minnesota Twins. His career hits numbered over 3,000, most of them from his years with the Milwaukee Brewers.

1999

After sixteen month of often bitter protest, four oak trees sacred to the Mdewakanton Dakota community of Mendota are cut down to make way for the rerouting of Highway 55 in Minneapolis.

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