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On this date in 1931, an F3 tornado collided with the Empire Builder passenger train, the pride of the Great Northern Railway. The train had just left Fargo, heading east on a hot afternoon. The engineer and several passengers saw a small funnel cloud to the southwest. The funnel bobbed up and down; then the top of a haystack blew apart. Seconds later, the train shook and the windows blew out in several cars.
Births on leap day, Feb. 29, in the region run the gamut from before World War II to a Bluff City girl set to be induced Thursday in Bristol, as well as at least three sets of twins.