October 20, 1850- First train runs in Wisconsin

Green Bay Packers become the first NFL team to fly to a game by plane.

A 98-year-old veteran in Iowa reflected on the parachute jump over the beaches of Normandy, France on the anniversary of D-Day.

Long before Camp Randall became a place for football, it was used to win the War Between the States.

In a life filled with milestones, Irving Locker celebrated a new, unexpected one last week: He became a published songwriter.

On this day, Oct. 28, 1954, journalist and author Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

On this day- October 21, 1897 - The Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay officially opened.