1871 — Six wagons loaded with immigrants from Indiana arrived in Lincoln.
1881 — Salt Creek waters were receding after one of the worst floods Lincoln had experienced since the city’s establishment in 1867.
1891 — University Place population reached 1,000. After it was divided into three wards, University Place was to become a second-class city.
1901 — The Harley corner on the southeast corner of 11th and O streets was sold at a sheriff’s sale to William Dorgan for $22,150 cash.
1911 — William Jennings Bryan received a standing ovation on his 51st birthday from 1,500 enthusiastic Democrats at the Lincoln auditorium.
1921 — A well-dressed man driving a Colorado-licensed car robbed a jewelry store in Sidney. The robber got away with seven diamond rings, several watches and an undetermined amount of cash.
1931 — Nearly 6,000 people jammed the University of Nebraska Coliseum to hear the touring Chicago Civic Opera Company’s presentation of two short operas, “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “I Pagliacci.”
1941 — Engineers recommended that the city of Lincoln buy the Iowa-Nebraska electric utility property for $8,620,000.
1951 — Nebraska Republicans observed their Founders Day with speakers George Thomas, a conservative Omahan, and U.S. Sen. Kenneth Wherry of Pawnee City suggesting that President Harry Truman be impeached.
1961 — All books were removed from Lincoln’s old City Library at 14th and N streets preparatory to razing of the structure to make way at the same site for the Bennett Martin Public Library.
1971 — Winds gusting up to 100 mph (at Hastings) and snow as deep as 14 inches (at Harrison) swept Nebraska. Nine people in their late teens and early 20s were charged with planning to bomb the Capitol and Lincoln police headquarters.
1981 — Trusses were erected for the skywalk that would link the Atrium’s second floor to the third floor of the CTU Building. Stiff competition in the Lincoln-area grocery market was making food buying less expensive.
1991 — About 35 Kearney State College students came to Lincoln to urge Gov. Ben Nelson not to cut their school’s budget. Nelson made no such promise. Gov. Ben Nelson told University of Nebraska officials they would have to find the $6 million needed to build the Beadle Center for Genetic and Bio-materials Research because other state funds wouldn’t be available.
2001 — According to U.S. Census Bureau figures for 2000, more than half of Nebraska’s population lived in metropolitan Omaha, Douglas, Sarpy, Washington and Cass counties and Lincoln/Lancaster County.
This article originally ran on journalstar.com.
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