2 weeks Ago By Lee Hilgendorf
2000 – 25 years ago Gov. Ventura signed into law a package of proposals, known as Katie’s Law, designed to tighten the state’s sex offender laws, the first bill including significant funding approved this season. Two Russian cosmonauts blasted off this morning for the 14-year-old Mir space station on a mission to bring the aging craft back to life after circling the Earth unoccupied for eight months.
1975 – 50 years ago The first official U.S. evacuation flight of Vietnamese orphans, carrying 243 children, ended in explosions and flames today shortly after take-off from Saigon.
About half of the 305 people on board survived. President Ford, shaken by the crash of an orphan flight that he had planned to meet in California, said today, “This tragedy must not deter us from offering new hope for the living.”1950 – 75 years ago “The condition of our streets is deplorable,” was almost the first thing newly elected alderman-at-large S.
Smith Fryer told the city council as it met for the first time during the 1950-51 fiscal year. The city council adopted an ordinance regulating the placing, erecting and maintenance of all new signs in the city and the requirement of a license for every new sign regardless of location.1925 - 100 years ago Operations of the new Ford automobile plant in St.
Paul will start May 1 with 1,100 men running two assembly lines and development will expand as rapidly as possible until the entire plant is in action. The Broadway Booterie presents the last word in Paris and New York styles to Rochester shoppers with advanced spring models in feminine, daintiness and novelty styles for the wardrobe.]]>.
