40 Great Years!

 

British playwright Ben Jonson, rival to William Shakespeare and England’s first unofficial poet laureate, was indicted for manslaughter after a duel in 1598.

 

The first Congress of the United States approved 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, in 1789.

 

President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, setting a date for the freedom of 3 million black slaves.

 

Science fiction author and visionary H.G. Wells was born in England in 1866.

 

The musical West Side Story opened in New York, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet, in 1957.

 

In 1969, Great River Regional Library was established to provide GREAT library service to Central Minnesota!