On the morning of September 7, 1971, while being constructed, the tower suddenly collapsed – “bent like spaghetti,” according to eyewitnesses.

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7 Killed as a Minnesota Television Tower Collapses (nytimes.com) SHOREVIEW, Minn., Sept. 7 (UPI)—Seven men were killed today when a new, 1,375‐foot television tower collapsed and crashed through part of a transmitter building below.

Alan Turing (Wikipedia) Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. He is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.

Sure, Shoreview has trees — but it’s the three giant towers that command attention (minnpost.com) “For good or ill, Shoreview is known as the home of the TV towers,” former Shoreview Mayor Bill Ferrell told the late, great Pioneer Press columnist Don Boxmeyer in the early 1990s. “Even the pine trees on Shoreview’s official logo are mistaken for TV towers.”