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Dakota Datebook radio features air daily at 8:35 am, 3:50 pm, 6:30 pm and 7:50 pm CT on Prairie Public.

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Bachelor Club
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Last week some of us enjoyed chocolates, flowers, and romantic canoodling with our sweethearts for Valentine’s Day. But then others were celebrating “Singles Awareness Day,” an equally legitimate holiday where single people can choose to celebrate or commiserate their independent lives. On today’s date in 1902, a group of ten “turned down, heart-pierced” young [...]
Stock Suit Siege
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
A former Minnesota Attorney General succumbed to authorities after a twenty-four hour siege on this day in 1907. The General, W. B. Douglas of St. Paul, attempted to avoid being served garnishment papers after his recent purchase of the Smith-Kenmare Dry Coal Company. The papers were being brought on behalf of E. C. Tolley, the [...]
Henry Hastings Sibley
Monday, February 20, 2012
He is one of Minnesota’s most famous and influential citizens, participating in some of its most turbulent history. Henry H. Sibley, Minnesota’s first governor, was born this date in Detroit, Michigan in 1811. Sibley played a vital role on the wild and bloody frontier of both Minnesota and Dakota Territories. Responding to an 18-year-old’s wanderlust, [...]
Sioux Settlement Treaty
Sunday, February 19, 2012
The Dakota Sioux and the U.S. Government signed an important treaty on this date in 1867. It was the wish of the Government to construct a road to the Pacific through Dakota Territory. To do so, they first had to pacify the Native groups. Territorial Governor Newton Edmunds was sent to convince the Sioux that [...]
Aloisius Joseph Muench
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Aloisius Joseph Muench was born on this date in 1889 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The son of German immigrants, Muench was the oldest of eight children. He attended St. Boniface Parish School in Milwaukee and graduated from the Seminary of St. Francis de Sales. He received his Master’s from the University of Wisconsin, and his Doctorate [...]