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Located at the site of an 1837 trading post, the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron (pop. 5,634) is dedicated to preservation of the rich history of the North American fur trade.

first appeared: 12/29/2002

In 2000, Nebraska’s 104 hospitals had 7,438 beds and 772 bassinets, according to the state Department of Health.

first appeared: 12/22/2002

Scotts Bluff, a mass of rock jutting 800 feet above the North Platte River near Gering (pop. 7,751), once served as a prominent landmark for pioneers on the Oregon Trail.

first appeared: 12/15/2002

The state’s coldest temperature of minus 47 degrees was recorded Dec. 22, 1989, at Oshkosh (pop. 887), tying the previous record set Feb. 12, 1899, at Camp Clarke.

first appeared: 12/8/2002

From 1870 to 1885, Ogallala (pop. 4,930) lived up to its rowdy reputation as “the town too tough for Texans” and “Gomorrah of the cattle trail” where Texas cattlemen haggled out deals with locals and celebrated the end of the trail.

first appeared: 12/1/2002

The People’s or Populist Party held its first convention July 4, 1892, in Omaha.

first appeared: 11/24/2002

The remains of a U.S. Cavalry-built stockade or palisade and the river bluffs inspired the naming of Palisade (pop. 386) in 1877.

first appeared: 11/17/2002

Completed in 1865, the Otoe County Courthouse in Nebraska City (pop. 7,228) is the state’s oldest public building still in use.

first appeared: 11/10/2002

Workers renovating the 1893 Fillmore County Courthouse in Geneva (pop. 2,226) last April discovered the building’s original plaster and stenciled dome.

first appeared: 11/3/2002

Dancer Fred Astaire, born Frederick Austerlitz on May 10, 1899, in Omaha, began touring on the vaudeville circuit at age 7 and paired with Ginger Rogers in 1933 for Flying Down to Rio, the first of 10 movies they made together.

first appeared: 10/27/2002

Itinerant photographer Solomon Butcher photographed and interviewed residents of Custer County and published the landmark 1901 book Pioneer History of Custer County and Short Sketches of Early Days in Nebraska.

first appeared: 10/20/2002

Warren Buffett, recognized as the world’s greatest stock market investor, was born Aug. 30, 1930, in Omaha. From 1957 to 1969, his investments grew at a compounded annual rate of 29.5 percent, while the Dow’s return was 7.4 percent.

first appeared: 10/13/2002

The world’s largest indoor desert, Desert Dome, opened March 2002 at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha and re-creates the environments of three deserts: Red Center of Australia, Namib of Africa, and Sonoran of southwest United States.

first appeared: 10/6/2002

George Wells Beadle, winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for genetics work, was born Oct. 22, 1903, in Wahoo (pop. 3,942).

first appeared: 9/29/2002

Since November 2000, students at Arthur County High School in Arthur (pop. 145) have operated the town’s only grocery, Wolf Den Market, as a learning experience and community service.

first appeared: 9/22/2002

The state’s deadliest tornado struck Omaha on March 23, 1913, killing 83 people and injuring 350, according to the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency.

first appeared: 9/15/2002

In 1934, coach Stephen Epler invented six-man football at Chester High School in Chester (pop. 294). It is still played at some rural high schools.

first appeared: 9/8/2002

Frank W. Cyr, Father of the Yellow School Bus, was born July 7, 1900, in Franklin (pop. 1,026). In 1939, Cyr organized a national conference of transportation officials to adopt school bus construction standards, including the bright yellow paint still used on school buses.

first appeared: 9/1/2002

Born Malcolm Little in Omaha on May 19, 1925, Malcolm X became an outspoken spokesman for African-Americans during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

first appeared: 8/25/2002

The 1888 Champion Mill in Chase County is the state’s last functional water-powered mill and is preserved as a state park.

first appeared: 8/18/2002

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