April 7: Happy Birthday Winkler; Budweiser's Clydesdales; Souris' Plaindealer.

April 7, 1933 - August A. Busch’s sons give their father a gift of a six-horse Clydesdale hitch purchased from Winnipeg’s Shea’s Brewery. This, and additional teams from Shea's, stables went on to become advertising icons for Busch's Budweiser beer. (For more on Shea, his brewery and horses.)

April 7, 1892 - The Souris Plaindealer newspaper is published by George Perry, a Cleveland businessman, and local A. T. Curtis.

April 7, 1954, 1906, 2002 - Winkler is incorporated as a village on April 7, 1906, a town on April 7, 1954 and a city on April 7, 2002.