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2005 Vine Deloria, Jr., Sioux Author

1989 United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112

1979 Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota

1975 Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD

1969 Don Wengert, Sioux City, Iowa, pitcher for the Oakland A's

1967 KMEG TV channel 14 in Sioux City, IA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1967 Cara Coughenour, born in Sioux City, Iowa, female pitcher, Colorado Silver Bullets

1963 Dan Goldie, Sioux City IO, tennis star

1960 KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast

1957 Siouxsie Sioux, Susan Ballion, Kent England, Siouxsie and Banshees

1954 KTIV TV channel 4 in Sioux City, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting

1953 KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting

1951 Mary Hart, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, TV hostess, Entertainment Tonight

1948 Fred Grandy, born in Sioux City, Iowa, Representative-R-Iowa, 1986-, actor, Love Boat

1948 Jerry Mathers, Sioux City Iowa, actor, Beaver-Leave It To Beaver

1939 Jim Ross Lightfoot, born in Sioux City, Iowa, Representative-R-Iowa 1985 - 1997

1939 Charles Eastman, Sioux Author

1936 Jerry Lacy, born in Sioux City, Iowa, actor, Play it Again Sam

1933 Vine Deloria, Jr., Sioux Author

1924 John Melcher, Sioux City, Iowa, Representative-D-Montana 1969 - 1977, Senator-D-Montana 1977 - 1989

1922 Frances Rafferty, born in Sioux City, Iowa, actress, December Bride

1922 Constance Moore, Sioux City Iowa, actress, Window on Main Street

1918 Abigail Van Buren, Mrs Morton Phillips, Sioux City Iowa, columnist

1918 Ann Landers, born in Sioux City, Iowa, twin sister/advice columnist

1915 Iris Meredith, born in Sioux City, Iowa, actress, Son of Davy Crockett

1913 MacDonald Carey, born in Sioux City, Iowa, actor, One Life to Live, Dream Girl

1909 Red Cloud, Sioux indian chief, dies

1894 Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their old Indian faith

1890 U.S. 7th Cavalry massacre about 300 captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota

1890 Big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee

1890 Around 11M acres, ceded to U.S. by Sioux Indians opens for settlement

1881 Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops

1877 Crazy Horse, Tashunka Witko, last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27

1876 American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle

1876 Custer and 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Big Horn

1870 Washington: President Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud

1866 Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre

1863 Little Crow, Ta-oya-te-duta, Santee Sioux indian chief, dies

1862 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minn, due to their uprising

1862 38 Santee Sioux indians, hanged in Mankato

1862 President Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians

1862 Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely

1862 Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota

1858 Charles Eastman, Sioux Author

1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and U.S.

1830 3 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk and Fox, signs a treaty giving the U.S. most of Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri


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