2012 Event Former U.S. Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern dies at age 90 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota 2005 Death Vine Deloria, Jr., Sioux Author 1989 Event United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112 1979 Event Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota 1975 Event Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD 1969 Birthday Don Wengert, Sioux City, Iowa, pitcher for the Oakland A's 1967 Event KMEG TV channel 14 in Sioux City, IA (CBS) begins broadcasting 1967 Birthday Cara Coughenour, born in Sioux City, Iowa, female pitcher, Colorado Silver Bullets 1963 Birthday Dan Goldie, Sioux City IO, tennis star 1960 Event KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast 1957 Birthday Siouxsie Sioux, Susan Ballion, Kent England, Siouxsie and Banshees 1954 Event KTIV TV channel 4 in Sioux City, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting 1953 Event KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting 1951 Birthday Mary Hart, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, TV hostess, Entertainment Tonight 1948 Birthday Fred Grandy, born in Sioux City, Iowa, Representative-R-Iowa, 1986-, actor, Love Boat 1948 Birthday Jerry Mathers, Sioux City Iowa, actor, Beaver-Leave It To Beaver 1939 Birthday Jim Ross Lightfoot, born in Sioux City, Iowa, Representative-R-Iowa 1985 - 1997 1939 Death Charles Eastman, Sioux Author 1936 Birthday Jerry Lacy, born in Sioux City, Iowa, actor, Play it Again Sam 1933 Birthday Vine Deloria, Jr., Sioux Author 1924 Birthday John Melcher, Sioux City, Iowa, Representative-D-Montana 1969 - 1977, Senator-D-Montana 1977 - 1989 1922 Birthday Frances Rafferty, born in Sioux City, Iowa, actress, December Bride 1922 Birthday Constance Moore, Sioux City Iowa, actress, Window on Main Street 1918 Birthday Abigail Van Buren, Mrs Morton Phillips, Sioux City Iowa, columnist 1918 Birthday Ann Landers, born in Sioux City, Iowa, twin sister/advice columnist 1915 Birthday Iris Meredith, born in Sioux City, Iowa, actress, Son of Davy Crockett 1913 Birthday MacDonald Carey, born in Sioux City, Iowa, actor, One Life to Live, Dream Girl 1909 Death Red Cloud, Sioux indian chief, dies 1894 Event Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their old Indian faith 1890 Event U.S. 7th Cavalry massacre about 300 captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota 1890 Death Big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee 1890 Event Around 11M acres, ceded to U.S. by Sioux Indians opens for settlement 1881 Event Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops 1877 Death Crazy Horse, Tashunka Witko, last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27 1876 Death American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle 1876 Event Custer and 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Big Horn 1870 Event Washington: President Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud 1866 Event Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre 1863 Death Little Crow, Ta-oya-te-duta, Santee Sioux indian chief, dies 1862 Event 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minn, due to their uprising 1862 Death 38 Santee Sioux indians, hanged in Mankato 1862 Event President Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians 1862 Event Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely 1862 Event Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota 1858 Birthday Charles Eastman, Sioux Author 1851 Event Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and U.S. 1830 Event 3 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk and Fox, signs a treaty giving the U.S. most of Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri
