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.

J. J. Thomson and The Electron: 1897–1899: An Introduction (PDF) This being the 100th anniversary of J. J. Thomson’s discovery of the electron, the October 1897 paper in which he presented his case that cathode rays are streams of subatomic “corpuscles” is attracting a great deal of attention. Viewed from 100 years later, this paper stands out as the starting point for the research into the structure of the atom that has dominated 20th-century science.

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.”