On This Date in Minnesota History: July 28

July 28, 1968 - Founded by Dennis Banks, George Mitchell, Herb Powless, Clyde Bellecourt, Harold Goodsky and Eddie Benton-Banai ¹ on this date “in an upstairs office on Plymouth Ave. in North Minneapolis, the American Indian Movement (AIM) became an activist organization to advocate for American Indians in the United States.”²¹http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Movement
²http://www.placeography.org/index.php/American_Indian_Movement,_Plymouth_Ave.,_N._Minneapolis,_Minnesota

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_American_Indian_Movement.svg

On This Date in Minnesota History: July 27

July 27, 1972 – Virginia Piper, wife of Harry C. Piper, Jr., board chairman of the Minneapolis brokerage firm of Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood, Inc., was kidnapped from her home in Orono, Minn., on this date. She was held for one million dollars ransom, then the largest ransom ever reported in the United States and the third largest in the world. Piper was found two days later, handcuffed and chained to a tree in the dense woods of Jay Cook State Park, near Duluth.
http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/p2350.xml

On This Date in Minnesota History: July 26

July 26, 1910 – “Touring speaker Carrie Nation was at Duluth's YWCA and spoke on Prohibition.”
http://www.thehistorypeople.com/data/docs/timeline-part2.pdf

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carry_Nation,_1910.JPG

On This Date in Minnesota History: July 25

July 25, 1917 – “In New Ulm, a group of at least 6,000 attend a rally at Turner Park to protest the policy of sending draftees of German descent to fight in the European War.”
http://www.thehistorypeople.com/data/docs/timeline-part2.pd

Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain July 25, 2012, as long as acknowledgement included.

On This Date in Minnesota History: July 24

July 24, 1975 – Professional hockey player Jamie Langenbrunner was born in Duluth, Minn., and graduated from Cloquet High School. He was “captain of the 2010 United States Olympic Team,” and a member of the 1999 Dallas Stanley Cup championship team and the 2003 New Jersey Devils Stanley Cup championship team.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Langenbrunner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JamieLangenbrunner2010WinterOlympics.jpg

On This Date in Minnesota History: July 23

July 23, 1901 - Chisholm was incorporated [on this date]. “Its great mine, first worked in 1889, and the village, are named in honor of Archibald Mark Chisholm, a principal explorer of the Mesabi range.”
http://genealogytrails.com/minn/stlouis/history.html

http://www.dessertfamily.com/amchisholmpg2.asp

On This Date in Minnesota History: July 22

July 22, 1928 – Robert Bergland, 20^th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, was born in Roseau, Minn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bergland

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiedosto:Robert_Bergland_-_USDA_portrait.jpg