Top news from 1996, 1971, 1946, 1921
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1996 – 25 years ago
The most popular baby names in 1995 were Michael for boys and Ashley and Elizabeth for girls.
1971 – 50 years ago
Rochester Police Chief James Macken told the Downtown Kiwanis Club that Rochester’s major crimes showed a 7.1 percent increase over 1969.
The University of Iowa’s Steve DeVries – a Rochester Mayo high school graduate – won the 177-pound championship in the eighth annual Midlands Wrestling Tournament in Chicago. (DeVries would coach at Cornell College and has been inducted into the National Wrestling Coaches Association Division III Hall of Fame.)
1946 – 75 years ago
Thirty U.S. cadet nurses arrived at Rochester State Hospital to begin studies and training in the three-month psychiatric course. The course includes training in electric shock therapy, bibliotherapy, recreation therapy, neurology, and work in the hospital wards. (Bibliotherapy is a therapeutic appr