Minnesotan baseball commentator Halsey Hal was the first to say 'Holy Cow' during a baseball broadcast.
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Private Milburn Henke of Hutchinson, Minnesota was the first enlisted man to land with the first American Expeditionary Force in Europe in WWII on January 26, 1942.
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Hibbing, Minnesota is the birthplace of the American bus industry. It sprang from the business acumen of Carl Wickman and Andrew "Bus Andy" Anderson - who opened the first bus line (with one bus) between the towns of Hibbing and Alice in 1914.