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1994 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country

1991 Charlie Barnet, saxophonist (Cherokee), dies of pneumonia at 77

1976 Piper Cherokee crashes into Baltimore Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt

1972 Cherokee Parks, NBA center, Dallas Mavericks, Minnesota Timberwolves

1969 Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82

1945 Wilma Mankiller, Cherokee Statesman

1931 Louis W. Ballard, born in Cherokee, Quapaw, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee'

1901 Cincinnati Enquirer reports Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant

1893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opens white settlement homesteaders

1839 Cherokee Nation forms

1828 1st American Indian newspaper in U.S., "Cherokee Phoenix," published

1760 Ft. Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians

1755 Transylvania Land Co. buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief


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