Top news from 1996, 1971, 1946, 1921
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1996 – 25 years ago
Rochester restaurateurs Mike Currie and Jerry Zubay, Henry Wellington, and Broadstreet Café owners, are now on-call consultants for Walt Disney World in Florida. They are assisting the famous destination to improve its food service operations. Anyone interested in raising money for saving wildlife habitats will soon have an option to buy a special state nature license plate for an additional $30. Funds raised through sale of specialized plates will go to the Reinvest in Minnesota Critical Habitat Program.
1971 – 50 years ago
A Northwest Airlines jet carrying 54 passengers and a crew of six was hijacked to Cuba on a flight originating in the Twin Cities. The entire Northwest crew of six were Minnesotans. The pilot, Fred Wolter, was a graduate of St. Charles High School. Thirty-seven of the passengers boarded the plane earlier in Rochester. The hijacked jet flew to Havana. The crew re