1. In 1925, Babe Ruth played his first game in Minnesota. Ruth and the New York Yankees played the Minneapolis Millers in an exhibition game, where Ruth hit a home run out of Nicollet Park.

2. On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Minnesota Governor William Marshall condemned the act, stating that "the assassination of President Lincoln was an atrocious and dastardly crime, and will be visited with swift and severe punishment."

3. The Minnesota Twins played their first regular season game in the Metrodome on April 14, 1982. The Twins beat the Seattle Mariners 11-7.

4. In 1916, Virginia's International Harvester Company came to the town of Winona, Minnesota, to build a new factory. The plant produced agricultural equipment and employed over 1,500 workers until it closed in 1983.

5. In 1945, Governor Edward Thye set a new record for the Washington Senators franchise by pitching a complete game shutout on Opening Day against the Boston Red Sox. Thye, who was Minnesota's governor at the time, was a former college baseball player for the University of Minnesota.