On This Date in Minnesota History: July 12

July 12, 1978 – “The top management of the nation’s largest sunflower-seed business was wiped out [on this date] when their light plane crashed near Kenyon, Minn., killing all six people aboard. All of the victims were officers of Rauenhorst, Bellows & Associates, Inc. of Olivia [Minn.], a 5 year-old seed business whose 125 employees [had] come to dominate this west-central farming community of 3,100.”
Minneapolis Tribune; “Plane crash kills six seed firm officials”; July 13, 1978; p. 1A

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