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Minnesota’s snowmobile industry was born in January 1956, when a mechanic named David Johnson assembled a prototype of a snow-going vehicle in the garage of Polaris Industries, a small machine shop in Roseau.
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Minnesotans would do well to remember what happened in our state just over a century ago.
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Glassware rattled. A paint can fell off a ladder. No one was hurt.
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No state retained its anti-margarine laws longer than Minnesota.
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Minnesotans embraced civil defense measures invented during the Cold War as enthusiastically as citizens of any other state.
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The monorail debuted in September 1979, giving the “New Zoo” (which opened the year before) a touch of futuristic pizzazz.
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On April 29, 1970, Jane Hodgson, a respected St. Paul obstetrician, performed an abortion on a woman who had contracted rubella early in her pregnancy.
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The Iron Range town pulled the stunt to try to secure funding for its water system.
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It may be hard to imagine from today’s perspective but Twin Cities food cooperatives were once rife with intrigue and occasional violence.
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TIME magazine could have chosen to put any number of rural Americans on its November 6, 1978, cover. But in the end, it went with Minnesota’s Pat Benedict.
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On October 15, 1971, the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld the state’s prohibition of same-sex marriage.
