1999 – 25 years ago
- More than 25 protesters handed out flyers at the northwest Walmart in Rochester, calling on customers to boycott the store. The protesters were a group called Citizens Concerned About Our Community.
- Rochester Community and Technical College defeated Vermilion 48-13 in a Minnesota Community College Conference interdivision football game at Century High School. It was the first football game played on the Century campus.
1974 – 50 years ago
- The Rochester Post Bulletin will kick off the high school football season with a 40-page tabloid football report. The report will be better than ever. Sports editor Bob Brown and sportswriters Bob Abbott, Gary Jacobson and Dave LaShomb will put together the report on the upcoming football season in southeastern Minnesota.
1949 – 75 years ago
- A Kansas man has been charged with stealing a watch and stethoscope from a Mayo Clinic doctor while posing as a doctor.
- Five Americans climb the five-kilometer-high Mount Ararat in Turkey to find Noah’s Ark. It is believed that the ark landed on the summit of this mountain after the flood. The Russians protest against the climb and consider it a spy expedition.
1924 – 100 years ago
- The Farmer-Labor Picnic will be held at Whitewater Park. Thos. Sullivan, candidate for Attorney General, and JJ Reiter of Rochester, candidate for Congress, will both deliver speeches.
- A harvest basket dinner will be held at the Church of the Brethren in Lewiston. Everyone is invited to bring a filled basket and a harvest offering will be collected.