Here are highlights in history for July 21, gleaned from the files of the Albert Lea Tribune:

1989 — The Rev. Kevin Olson would be the new pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church near Myrtle and Deer Creek Valley Lutheran Church near Northwood, Iowa.

1979 — Paul Huey, the assistant librarian at the Albert Lea Public Library, was writing a column, “Between the Bookends,” for the Tribune.

1959 — Dr. O.G. Malmin, editor of the Lutheran Herald, officiated at the cornerstone laying ceremony at Emmons Lutheran Church.