150 Minnesota moments we’d just as soon forget: Happy Sesquicentennial, Minnesota!
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The temperature falls below freezing on July 4.1869
Photographer Charles Zimmerman of St. Paul survives being struck by an icicle weighing several hundred pounds while trying to take photos of the frozen Minnehaha Falls. Bruised and sore — yes. Broken bones — no.1893
Virginia, Minn., is destroyed by fire.1900
Virginia, Minn., is destroyed by fire. Again.1930
A Communist Party-owned bookstore is bombed on Third Avenue in South Minneapolis, after which a mob loots the store and tosses remaining books into a bonfire.1936
St. Paul is named the best place in America to hire a hit man by Fortune Magazine.
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