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Mark Walter Olson (March 17, 1943 – September 12, 2018) was an American economist and bank executive who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2001 to 2006. Filling an unexpired term to end on January 31, 2010, he resigned on June 21, 2006, in order to run the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board .
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Earl B. Olson was born on a farm north of Murdock, Minnesota, the son of Olof and Anna (Anderson) Olson.Both his father and mother were immigrants from Sweden.After eight grades of school in Murdock, Olson enrolled in the West Central School of Agriculture, Morris, MN, (now the University of Minnesota Morris) graduating in 1932.
The city also lends its name to the song "Fergus Falls" by the band Field Report on its 2012 self-titled album. Fergus Falls received international coverage in early 2017 [10] and late 2018 after a news article in Der Spiegel falsely claimed there was an anti-Mexican sign at the city's entrance and fabricated other things about the town. [11]
Tasha Butts, 41, American basketball player (Minnesota Lynx) and coach (Georgetown Hoyas), breast cancer. [567] Allan Callow, 94, Australian footballer . [568] Rodolfo Cuenca, 95, Filipino building industry executive, chairman of CDCP (1967–1983). [569] (death announced on this date) Birendra Nath Datta, 88, Indian folklorist. [570]
Sigurd Ferdinand Olson (April 4, 1899 – January 13, 1982) was an American writer, environmentalist, and advocate for the protection of wilderness.For more than thirty years, he served as a wilderness guide in the lakes and forests of the Quetico-Superior country of northern Minnesota and northwestern Ontario.
Fergus Falls Township is a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 747 at the 2020 census. [1] Fergus Falls Township was organized in 1870, and named for James Fergus, an early settler, and a series of rapids on the river. [4]
Michael John Anderson, age 19, murdered Katherine Ann Olson (1983–October 25, 2007), a 24-year-old theater and Hispanic studies graduate of St. Olaf College and temporary nanny, [2] on October 25, 2007, in Savage, Minnesota, after seeing an ad for her services as a nanny on Craigslist.