Happy Birthday North Dakota!!
Today in 1889, North Dakota became the 39th state in America!
State Capital: Fargo
State Motto: "Liberty and Union Now and Forever Inseperable"
State Flower: Wild Prarie Rose
State Bird: Western Meadowlark
State Tree: American Elm
State Animal: Nokota Horse
State Nickname: The Peace Garden State
The geographic center of North America, in Pierce County, near Balta.
Chartered in 1884 Jamestown College is the oldest independent college in the state.
The Lewis and Clark expedition encountered their first grizzly (brown) bears in North Dakota.
An attempt to drop the word North from the state name was defeated by the 1947 Legislative Assembly. Again in 1989 the Legislature rejected two resolutions intended to rename the state Dakota.
North Dakota was the only state to complete a state-specific version of the classic"Carmen Sandiego" games, even though 20 different states were also given the same opportunity. The game was played in North Dakota school classrooms in the '90s, but surviving copies are apparently hard to come by.
