This Day in Minnesota History
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Jacob Schmidt is born in Bavaria. Schmidt opened a major regional brewery in St. Paul in 1855. The Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company, Inc., was bought by G. Heilemann Brewing Company, which in turn sold the brewery to Landmark Brewing in 1992.
At a Kandiyohi County rally to support greenbacks rather than gold as the national currency, candidate for Congress Ignatius Donnelly gives a speech.
The bones of Browns Valley Man are found in a Traverse County gravel pit that was likely a burial site between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago.
A statue of Leif Erikson, titled "Discoverer of America" and sculpted by John K. Daniels, is dedicated on the explorer's holiday. The result of a ten-year fundraising campaign by the Leif Erickson Monument Association, the thirteen-foot bronze statue is located on the capitol grounds in St. Paul.
Rose Totino patents her "Crisp Crust" frozen pizza crust, an improvement on what she called the "cardboard crust" pizzas that were available at the time. The Northeast Minneapolis entrepreneur had sold Totino's Finer Foods to Pillsbury in November of 1975 and had become a vice president in the company. By 1992 Totino's controlled twenty percent of the frozen pizza market.