Bismarck, ND – North Dakota’s 131st Anniversary of Statehood is on Monday, November 2, 2020.
At 3:40 p.m. ET, on November 2, 1889, President Harrison signed the Proclamation of Admission for North Dakota and South Dakota. The President shuffled the paperwork and signed the documents blindly, so it is not known which state’s documents were signed first.
Now a State Hist...