August 28, 1928

Governor A.G. Sorlie died in office.

August 29, 1833

Two famous fur traders, William Sublette and Robert Campbell, arrived at the mouth of the Yellowstone River in western North Dakota, there to establish Fort William in opposition to the American Fur Company's Fort Union.

August 30, 1801

Walsh County is organized.

August 31, 1941

The million-dollar Grand Forks municipal airport dedicated.

September 1, 1801

John Cameron of Hudson Bay Company sent Alexander Henry to build a fur trading post at Grand Forks.

September 1, 1864

A wagon train under the command of Captain James L. Fisk was attacked by Sioux. Among the 12 men killed was the scout, Jefferson Dilts, for whom a temporary defense work was named. Fort Dilts is near Rhame, north of U.S. Highway 12.

September 2, 1892

A two-day gathering urging tariff reciprocity between Canada and the United States, "the first convention held to consider this question in the world," adjourned at Fargo.

September 3, 1863

The first day of the three-day Battle of Whitestone Hill, last major Indian conflict east of the Missouri River. The site is southeastern North Dakota near Ellendale. Commanding the Army forces was General Alfred Sully.

September 3, 1862

The Minnesota Massacre of 1862 extended to the five-year-old military fort, Abercrombie, located at the eastern edge of Dakota Territory. A 26-day siege got underway on this day.

September 3, 1950

The Clarence Iverson, Williston Basin discovery well, was spudded in; seven months later black gold was produced and a new North Dakota industry was born.

September 3, 1950

231st Engineering Battalion ordered into federal service for Korean emergency.

September 4, 1932

Fort Dilts State Park dedicated near Rhame.

September 5, 1933

Second cornerstone laying for new state Capitol, under administration of Governor Langer.

September 5, 1883

The cornerstone for the Dakota Territory capitol building was laid at Bismarck. Among those present were General Ulysses S. Grant, James J. Hill of the Great Northern, President Henry Willard of the Northern Pacific, newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, Sitting Bull, Generals H.H. Sibley and W.D. Washburn, and the Chicago merchant, Marshall Field.

September 5, 1963

A shelterbelt laboratory of the Lake States Forest Experiment Station was dedicated at Bottineau.

September 6, 1878

President Rutherford B. Hayes visited Red River Valley bonanza wheat farms near Casselton.

September 7, 1947

Radio Station KNOX began broadcasting at Grand Forks.

September 7, 1883

Theodore Roosevelt arrived at Little Missouri for first time on buffalo hunting trip.

September 8, 1951

Thomas E. Whelan sworn in at Bismarck as U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua.

September 8, 1884

The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, opens its doors to first students.

September 14, 1901

Theodore Roosevelt became President upon the death of William McKinley, eight days after McKinley was shot by an anarchist assassin. Roosevelt said he would never had become President had it not been for his experience of living in the Badlands of North Dakota.

September 13, 1872

First train enters Jamestown.

September 17, 1851

By treaty negotiated at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation was established as the home of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes.

September 17, 1930

The International Peace Garden was incorporated in New York as a result of a proposal from the National Association of Gardeners, of the United States, meeting at Toronto in 1929. Late in 1931 the garden site was selected in the heart of the continent, in North Dakota and Manitoba.

September 21

1951 The Franklin P. Wood Station of Minnkota Power Cooperative at Grand Forks was dedicated at a program featuring Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio and REA Administrator Claude R. Vickard.

1965 An omnibus state tax measure passed by the
1965 North Dakota Legislature was defeated at a special referendum election.

September 21, 1951

Franklin P. Wood Station of Minnkota Power Cooperative dedicated at program featuring Senator Robert A. Taft and REA Administrator Claude R. Wickard at Grand Forks.

September 21

1905 The First Church of Christ, Scientist at Grand Forks, the first Christian Science church erected in North Dakota, was dedicated.

1917 E. J. Babcock was elected acting president of the University of North Dakota, to succeed Frank L. McVey, who became president of the University of Kentucky.

1942 An officer candidate school was started at North Dakota State University during World War II, with 335 candidates enrolled for military administration courses.

September 22, 1899

North Dakota's Spanish-American War troops mustered out of federal service.

September 22

1899 North Dakota Spanish-American War troops were mustered out of federal service.

1797 Charles Jean Baptiste Chaboillez arrived at the mouth of the Pembina River to establish the North West Company Pemina House, a fur trading post.

1871 A post office was established at Fargo.

1888 George A. Fulljames was fatally injured in an illegal prize fight in Church's Barn at Grand Forks.

1899 North Dakota's Spanish-American War Troops were mustered out of federal service.

1903 The State School of Science at Wahpeton enrolled its first students.

1933 North Dakota voters at a special election refused to approve a referred act to impose a state sales tax or an initiated measure permitting Sunday movies, but approved an initiated measure allowing the manufacture, sale and distribution of beer.

September 23

1796 The Spanish Flag was flown on this date over the Mandan-Hidatsa trading post in the Fort Clark vicinity of what now is North Dakota. The banner was raised by James Evans, a Spanish subject who had come up the Missouri River.

1806 Lewis and Clark completed their expedition to explore territory west of the Mississippi River.

1915 The first issue of the Leader, the organ of the Nonpartisan League, was published at Fargo.

September 24

1809 Big White, chief of the Mandans, who had gone downriver with Lewis and Clark three years earlier to visit the "Great White Father" in Washington, finally was returned to his people by a well-armed contingent led by the Missouri fur trader, Pierre Chauteau.

1917 Grand Forks Police Chief J. W. Lowe banned parking of automobiles in the immediate vicinity of churches during worship services after clergymen protested that their services were being interrupted "by the noises of the machines."

1966 Basin Electric Power Cooperative dedicated its 200,000 kilowatt Leland H. Olds power generating plant near Stanton.

1968 Richard M. Nixon campaigned in Bismarck as the Republican candidate for President.

September 25, 1963

President John F. Kennedy spoke at a University of North Dakota convocation in Grand Forks.

September 25

1840 William N. Roach, U. S. senator from North Dakota 1893-99, was born in Louden County, Virgina.

1873 Burleigh County was organized. It was named in honor of Dr. Walter A. Burleigh, Indian agent and trader, delegate to Congress and builder of 50 miles of Northern Pacific Railway roadbed and track.

1892 Five men were burned fatally when fire destroyed a shack used as a "gambling den" at the Grand Forks County village of Thompson.

1940 Wendell Willkie campaigned in North Dakota as the Republican nominee for President, addressing a crowd of more than 7,000 at Bismarck.

1963 President John F. Kennedy spoke at a University of North Dakota convocation and received an honorary degree from the institution, less than two months before his assassination at Dallas.

September 26

1847 George B. Winship, founder of the Grand Forks Herald and the state's leading editor at the time of statehood, was born in Saco, Maine.

1887 Voters of Devils Lake voted 70-1 to incorporate and adopt the council form of government.

1887 Devils Lake, the seat of Ramsey County, was incorporated.

September 27

1892 The Grand Forks Trades and Labor Assembly formed a permanent organization, electing Frank Connors of the Cigar Makers Union as its first president.

September 28

1797 Canadian fur trader Charles Jean Baptiste Chaboillez began construction of a trading post at Pembina - the third such post to be built at the junction of the Pembina and Red Rivers.

1949 J.F.T . O'Connor, one-time Grand Forks lawyer who served as U.S. Comptroller of Currency under Franklin D. Roosevelt, died in Los Angeles.

1875 Largely as a result of successful bonanza farms in the Red River Valley, the Northern Pacific Railway was reorganized on this date. Through sale of Valley lands, the NP was enabled to resume its westward rail construction.

1916 William Jennings Bryan spoke before a crowd estimated at more than 3,000 at the Grand Forks city auditorium, climaxing a day of nine speeches in North Dakota in support of the Democratic ticket.

1941 The Duke and Duchess of Windsor crossed North Dakota in a Soo Line train, en route to their ranch at Calgary, Alberta.

1965 University of North Dakota enrollment topped 6,000 for the first time in history.

September 28, 1797

Canadian fur trader Charles Jean Baptiste Chaboillez began construction of a trading post at Pembina -- the third such post to be built at the junction of the Pembina and Red Rivers.

September 29, 1951

Charles L. Robertson Lignite Research Laboratory dedicated at Grand Forks.

September 29

1886 Jamestown College opened its doors for students.

1900 William Jennings Bryan delivered a presidential campaign speech before an estimated 5,000 persons in the Grand Forks baseball park.

1951 The Charles R. Robertson Lignite Research Laboratory, named for the late North Dakota congressman, was dedicated at Grand Forks by Secretary of the Interior, Oscar Chapman, and Bureau of Mines Director, James Boyd.

1952 President Harry Truman made a whistlestop train campaign tour across North Dakota on behalf of Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic nominee for President.

1966 A $500,000 judgment, the largest in North Dakota history, was granted in federal court at Grand Forks to Shane Stromsodt, 7, Grand Forks, for retardation caused by inoculation with a drug manufactured by Parke Davis & Co.

September 30

1873 The Seventh Cavalry, commanded by Gen. George A. Custer, moved into quarters at Fort Abraham Lincoln, south of Mandan.

1886 William Langer, the 17th and 21st governor of North Dakota 1933-34 and 1937-38 and U. S. senator 1941-59, was born in Casselton.

1913 First classes were held at Minot State College, then known as the State Normal School at Minot.

1918 The Grand Forks American, a daily newspaper owned by the Nonpartisan League, published its first edition. It continued to publish until March 30, 1920.

1919 Governor William L. Guy was born in Amenia, North Dakota

September 29, 1952

President Harry Truman whistle-stopped through North Dakota.

September 30, 1886

William Langer born at Casselton.

October 1, 1801

A fur trading post was completed on the north side of the "Panbian River" and called "Fort Panbian." The name later was changed to Pembina.

1895 Fort Buford Military Post was abandoned.

October 1, 1889

A state constitution was adopted. Just a month later North Dakota was admitted to the Union as the 39th state.

October 1, 1889

In an election on this date, North Dakota voted to enter the Union as a dry state by the narrowest of margins. At the time there were 10 breweries and one distillery in the state.

October 2, 1883

Cornerstone laid at Grand Forks for first building for higher education in North Dakota. The building later became known as "Old Main."

October 2, 1954

Dedication of oil refinery at Mandan marked the beginning of a fully integrated petroleum industry within the state.

October 4, 1937

President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated new fairgrounds grandstand at Grand Forks.

October 5, 1918

The North Dakota Supreme Court overruled its own previous decision and held that the initiative and referendum amendment to the state constitution was self- executing, this clearing the way for popular initiation of laws.

October 6, 1884

The short-lived Medora to Deadwood stagecoach was inaugurated by the Marquis de Mores.