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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


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