A lightning bolt struck the main tent pole, instantaneously killing two, gravely injuring another and knocking unconscious at least a dozen other nearby circus roustabouts and performers.
The world-famous Darwin Twine Ball, which has made the small town of Darwin, Minnesota, a destination and is the the world's largest ball of twine created by one man, was started by Francis A. Johnson 75 years ago this month.
One veteran's struggle to bring transparency to secretive UFO programs are part of the bipartisan political tide reaching highest levels of government.
Following his role in one of sport鈥檚 most notorious scandals, Charles 'Swede' Risberg rebuilt his life鈥攁fter his MLB lifetime ban鈥攊n Minnesota, including playing baseball again in the Dakotas.
80 years ago, Allied troops invaded Normandy, marking a turning point in the war and giving one man a taste of fame 鈥� even if he never made a fuss about it.
The basalt found in Duluth's abandoned quarry shared properties with a sample brought to Earth on Apollo 11, so researchers ground down the basalt into the very first lunar simulant
The coded message on slips of paper in the Victorian-era silk dress bedeviled many for nearly a decade. A secret found in an old book cracked the case.
Amundsen was sometimes called the 'Last Viking' for his international expeditions, including being the first person to visit the South Pole. He vanished on a 1928 rescue mission.
After a lifetime of hearing about his North Dakotan great-great-grandfather's record-breaking beard, Dan Backer and his wife Jeanine trekked through the Smithsonian archives to see it.
As a state legislator, Gordon Bushnell couldn't pass a bill to construct the 200-mile road. So he grabbed a shovel and wheelbarrow, completing about 12 miles by the time he died at age 81 in 1982.
