This Day in Minnesota History
Today's Date:
Stillwater's first post office is established, with Elam Greeley as postmaster.
The Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court opens for its first term, with Judge Aaron Goodrich presiding.
The Hallie Q. Brown House, named for the African American civil rights advocate and suffragist, moves into its first permanent building in St. Paul. Offering tutoring and day camps for children as well as emergency food and clothing for needy families, the community center would later relocate and combine with the Martin Luther King Center in St. Paul.
Sauk Centre teachers end a week-long strike after the teachers' association and the school board ratify a contract settlement that calls for a salary increase (with an additional twenty-five minutes of supervisory time) and provides teachers with no less than 250 minutes per week of preparation time.
Ann Bancroft of St. Paul reaches the South Pole by skis, becoming the first woman to travel overland to both the North and South Poles (see May 2). She leads the American Women's Expedition on a sixty-seven-day trek during which the four women cover 660 miles on skis. Additionally, in 2001 Ann Bancroft and Liv Arneson would become the first women to ski across Antarctica.
The movie Iron Will, a fictionalized account of a 1917 dogsled race from Winnipeg to St. Paul, opens nationwide. Albert Campbell, a Métis man from Le Pas, Manitoba, won the real race, which was part of St. Paul's Winter Carnival. The first written account of any dogsled race detailed a trip from Winnipeg to St. Paul in the 1850s.