Happy Birthday To The Williston Basin -- The Williston Herald Looks Back At 70 Years Of Oil In North Dakota -- April 4, 2021

Happy birthday to the Williston Basin. Seventy years old tomorrow. 

Link here. The Williston Herald looks back at 70 years of oil in North Dakota.

In April 1951, the North Dakota landscape changed forever with the discovery of oil. We look back at the discovery through the Herald archive and other sources.

Billboard's number one hits in April, 1951:

• If, Perry Como; and,
• How High the Moon, Les Paul and Mary Ford.

I was going to post the videos but they are so awful, I just couldn't do it. 

From The Herald, seventy years ago. I would be born some four months later, in a North Dakota city other than Williston, but then moved to Williston two years later.

April 4, 2021, for the archives:

• INDIA reports highest ever record-breaking new covid-19 cases in one day. Wow, the US was lucky Trump was president when this all began. My hunch: under a different administration, "we" would be testing new vaccines.
• let's fact check this: 
• link here; yes, 92,000 new cases reported yesterday; India is #1 in the world with number of new cases reported yesterday;
  
• link here; second wave very, very obvious;