Minnesota History for Today
The Minnesota Twins made the history books today.
1850-The Governor Ramsey takes the first steamboat trip on the Mississippi River.
1859-Author Bayard Taylor lectures in Minneapolis.
1867-The Minneapolis Daily Tribune is published.
1877-During the grasshopper plague, the state gives a dollar for each bushel of grasshopper eggs collected by this date.
1997-The Minnesota Twins retire Kriby Puckett's number 34.
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