1988 – 25 years ago
Statewide gasoline prices are dropping. In southern Minnesota, the average full service price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline is $1.11. Average price at a self-service station is just over $1 a gallon.
Rochester Community College won the state community college volleyball championship in Crookston beating Minnesota-Crookston 15-10, 15-11 and 15-11 in the title match. The team is coached by Jean Marconett.
1963 – 50 years ago
Nine Minnesota deer hunters died on opening deer season weekend. Three died of gunshots and six of heart attacks.
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It is estimated that 401,000 war veterans live in Minnesota. World War I veterans average 69.1 years of age and World War II veterans average 44 years old.
1938 – 75 years ago
Without regard to race or religion, there is but one thing asked of Americans-that they be Americans first, Dr. William J. Mayo told Rochester High School students during the student assembly to celebrate Armistice Anniversary. Dr. Mayo presented a Minnesota state flag and a Rochester High School flag to the student body. The Rochester Junior College dramatic club, orchestra and mixed chorus presented an Armistice program in the auditorium after the presentation ceremony.
A gold watch was presented to Gus Berg who retired as janitor of the Bethel English Lutheran Church, at a meeting of the Men's club. Thomas Keys, the Mayo Clinic librarian, was the guest speaker.
From wire services
Ten years ago:President Bush's top foreign advisers summoned L. Paul Bremer, Iraq's U.S. administrator, for hurried White House talks focused on their growing frustrations with the Iraqi Governing Council and a logjam in transferring political power to Iraqis. In Galveston, Texas, millionaire Robert Durst was found not guilty of murdering Morris Black, an elderly neighbor who Durst said he'd killed accidentally. Toronto's Roy Halladay won the American League Cy Young Award.
Five years ago:President George W. Bush marked his last Veterans Day as president at a New York pier, speaking to a crowd of thousands gathered for the rededication of the USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. San Francisco's Tim Lincecum won the National League Cy Young Award.
One year ago:President Barack Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery and said the Sept. 11 generation had "written one of the greatest chapters" in the country's military service, toppling a dictator and battling an insurgency in Iraq, pushing back the Taliban in Afghanistan and decimating al-Qaida's leadership. A Florida woman identified as the recipient of harassing emails from David Petraeus' girlfriend acknowledged her friendship with the former CIA director. Jill Kelley, an unpaid social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, said she and her family had been friends with Petraeus and his family for more than five years.
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Today's Birthdays:Jazz singer-musician Mose Allison is 86. Actress Bibi Andersson is 78. Country singer Narvel Felts is 75. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is 73. Americana roots singer/songwriter Chris Smither is 69. Rock singer-musician Vince Martell (Vanilla Fudge) is 68. The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, is 68. Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is 62. Pop singer-musician Paul Cowsill (The Cowsills) is 62. Rock singer-musician Andy Partridge (XTC) is 60. Singer Marshall Crenshaw is 60. Rock singer Dave Alvin is 58. Rock musician Ian Craig Marsh (Human League; Heaven 17) is 57. Actor Stanley Tucci is 53. Actress Demi Moore is 51. Actress Calista Flockhart is 49. Actor Philip McKeon is 49. Rock musician Scott Mercado is 49. Actor Frank John Hughes is 46. TV personality Carson Kressley is 44. Actor David DeLuise is 42. Actor Adam Beach is 41. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is 39. Actor Scoot McNairy is 36. Rock musician Jonathan Pretus (Cowboy Mouth) is 32. NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez is 27. Actress Christa B. Allen is 22. Actor Ian Patrick (TV: "The Neighbors") is 11.
