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1882
Oliver Crosby and Frank Johnson open the Franklin Manufacturing Company. Renamed Amhoist in 1892, the derrick crane company would be a major St. Paul employer until 1985, when it relocated to Wilmington, North Carolina.
1884
An assassin attempts to murder the Lakota leader Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake) at the Grand Opera House in St. Paul. Sitting Bull is there as part of a program, where, incidentally, he meets Annie Oakley.
1908
A forest fire burns Chisholm, causing millions of dollars in damage and leaving 6,000 homeless.
1939
Duluth's Incline Railway makes its final trip. Built in 1891 for $400,000, it had carried passengers up Seventh Avenue from Superior to Ninth Street, a distance of 2,749 feet.