This Day in Minnesota History

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Today's Date: April 27

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1915

A fire destroys the St. Paul Public Library at Seventh and Wabasha Streets. The library resides in the old House of Hope Presbyterian Church building at Fifth and Exchange Streets and later moves into its present building across from Rice Park.
1948

KSTP-TV makes the first commercial television broadcast in Minnesota, showing the Minneapolis Millers' baseball game from Nicollet Park for the approximately 2,500 owners of television sets in the Twin Cities. Station owner Stanley E. Hubbard had experimented with television since the 1930s.
1967

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. criticizes US involvement in the Vietnam War during a speech at the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus.