AM 1240 WJON » james gallagher http://wjon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 16:15:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 This Date In Central Minnesota History – March 2nd, 1949 http://wjon.com/this-date-in-central-minnesota-history-march-2nd-1949/ http://wjon.com/this-date-in-central-minnesota-history-march-2nd-1949/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:35:48 +0000 Jim Maurice http://wjon.com/?p=8647 On this date, a Melrose man became the first pilot to fly nonstop around planet Earth. And with his crew aboard the bomber Lucky Lady II, James Gallagher flew off into the history books.

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]]> http://wjon.com/this-date-in-central-minnesota-history-march-2nd-1949/feed/ 0 Photos courtesy of the Stearns History Museum: James Gallagher along with his wife Mary and their daughter Katherine in the Melrose parade in his honor