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The area of South Dakota is 77,047 sq.
miles and the capital is
Pierre.
(WUD, 1994, p.1360)
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c65 Million BC T. rex "Sue" ate a Duckbill
dinosaur and was herself mauled by another T. rex. She died in a
slow moving stream near the shore of a vast inland sea that bisected
North America, and was buried under a protective layer of sand.
(SFC,12/897, p.A4)
1861 Mar 2, The Territory of
Nevada was created by an act of Congress. The first elected governor
of the state was Henry G. Blasdel. US Congress created the Dakota
& Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah territories
(LVRJ, 11/1/97, p.1B)(SFEC, 7/9/00, DB p.67)(SC,
3/2/02)
1868 Apr 29, The US government
and the Sioux Indians signed another treaty that ended Red Cloud’s
War, but it did not last long. The treaty at Fort Laramie (Wyoming)
made the Black Hills part of the Great Sioux Reservation.
(www.suite101.com/lesson.cfm/17638/1146/8)(Econ,
8/2/08, p.37)(AH, 6/03, p.36)
1870s Some 400 Hutterites, a
sect of Anabaptists, migrated from Europe to the US. They settled on
three communal farms in South Dakota.
(NH, 9/98, p.14)
1874 Jul 2, Colonel Custer
departed from Fort Abraham Lincoln with some 1,000 soldiers and 70
Indian scouts on a 1200 mile expedition to chart the Black Hills of
eastern Wyoming western South Dakota, land which belonged to the
Sioux. The expedition returned on August 30.
(AH, 6/03, p.37)
1874 Aug 2, Gold was discovered
in the Black Hills of western South Dakota during an expedition led
by Colonel Custer. The land belonged to the Sioux but was invaded by
prospectors. Sioux leaders Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull retaliated.
(HT, 3/97, p.43)(AH, 6/03, p.37)
1876 Jun 25-26, In the Battle
of the Little Bighorn, S.D. [Mont.], Gen. George A. Custer and some
250 men in his 7th Cavalry were massacred by the Sioux Indians and
allies. The site is near a region where paleontologist Prof. Edward
Drinker Cope dug for dinosaur fossils just a few days after the
massacre. Custer and his cavalrymen had attacked an encampment of
2,000 to 4,000 Lakota, Cheyenne and other Indians.
(WSJ, 11/1/94, J.E. Bishop, p.1)(SFC, 6/28/96,
p.A5)(AP, 6/25/97)
1876 Aug 2, Frontiersman Wild
Bill Hickok, holding aces over eights, was shot and killed from
behind by “Crooked Nose” Jack McCall, while playing poker at a
saloon in Deadwood, S.D.
(AP, 8/2/97)(MC, 8/2/02)(Econ, 5/29/04, p.32)
1876 Aug 15, US law removed
Indians from Black Hills after a gold find. Sioux leaders Crazy
Horse and Sitting Bull led their warriors to protect their lands
from invasion by prospectors following the discovery of gold. This
led to the Great Sioux Campaign staged from Fort Laramie. Gold was
discovered in Deadwood in the Dakota territory by Quebec brothers
Fred and Moses Manuel. The mine was incorporated in California on
Nov 5, 1877, as the Homestake Mining Company.
(HT, 3/97, p.43)(WSJ, 1/5/00, p.CA1)(MC, 8/15/02)
1876 George V. Ayres
(1852-1939) arrived in the Black Hills at the beginning of the gold
rush there and within a year began working at the R.C. Lake Hardware
Store in Deadwood, SD. By the mid 1880s he owned the store and later
moved it to the main floor of the Bullock Hotel, built in the
mid-1890s.
(SFC, 1/24/07, p.G7)
1876 Moses Manuel staked a
claim at the Homestake gold mine in Lead, SD.
(SFC, 6/26/01, p.B1)
1877 Nov 5,
The Homestake Mining Company was incorporated in California based on
the gold discovered in Deadwood in the Dakota territory by Quebec
brothers Fred and Moses Manuel in 1876.
(WSJ, 1/5/00, p.CA1)
1877 The U.S. seized the South
Dakota Black Hills of the Sioux Indians. [see Jun 13, 1979]
(HN, 6/13/98)
1878 Calamity Jane served as a
devoted nurse to several ailing Deadwood residents during the
smallpox epidemic of 1878.
(HNPD, 8/28/99)
1883 The US Supreme Court ruled
that the Dakota Territory court had no jurisdiction in a case in
which a member of the Lakota nation killed a fellow member on tribal
land. The decision overturned a death sentence and effectively gave
exclusive jurisdiction for crimes to tribes. In 1885 US Congress
passed the Major Crimes Act taking away the tribes’ authority to
prosecute serious crimes such as murder, manslaughter and rape.
(WSJ, 8/13/07, p.A12)
1884 Aug 28, The 1st known
photograph of a tornado was made near Howard, SD.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1885 Mar 3, The United States
Congress passed the Major Crimes Act (18 U.S.C. 1153). It placed
seven major crimes under federal jurisdiction if they are committed
by a Native American in Native territory regardless of whether the
victim of the crime was Native.
(http://supreme.justia.com/us/437/634/)
1888 Jan 12, A major blizzard
hit South Dakota and left hundreds of children and adults dead. In
2004 David Laskin authored “The Children’s Blizzard.”
(WSJ, 11/24/04, p.D10)
1889 Feb 22, President
Cleveland signed a bill to admit the Dakotas, Montana and Washington
state to the Union. The "omnibus bill" was an act dividing the
Dakota Territory into the states of North and South Dakota, and
enabling the two Dakotas to formulate constitutions. A
constitutional convention was held at Bismarck beginning July 4,
1889. A constitution was formulated and submitted to a vote of the
people of the State of North Dakota on October 1, 1889, and was
adopted.
(AP,
2/22/99)(www.court.state.nd.us/court/history/dakotaterritory.htm)
1889 Nov 2, South Dakota became
the 40th state.
(HFA, '96, p.42)(AP, 11/2/97)
1889 The Great Sioux
Reservation of the Dakotas was dismembered into 6 parts.
(Econ, 10/15/05, p.34)
1889-1890 Sioux warrior Kicking Bear became the
leading spokesman for the new Indian religion, the "Ghost Dance,"
which promised a return to ancient ways for a people disheartened by
reservation life. Kicking Bear continued to resist the U.S. Army for
several weeks after many of his fellow Sioux were killed in the
Massacre at Wounded Knee on December 29, 1990. Kicking Bird was a
Kiowa Chief. Bear’s Head was a Crow chief.
(HNQ, 12/24/99)
1890 Dec 15, Sioux Indian Chief
Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members were killed in Grand River,
S.D., during a fracas with Indian police [US troops]. In an attempt
to arrest Sitting Bull at his Standing Rock, South Dakota, cabin,
shooting broke out and Lt. Bullhead shot the great Sioux leader.
(WUD, 1994, p.1680)(AP, 12/15/97)(HN, 12/15/98)
1890 Dec 29, The last major
conflict of the Indian wars took place at Wounded Knee Creek in
South Dakota after Colonel James W. Forsyth of the 7th Cavalry tried
to disarm Chief Big Foot and his followers. Seventy-year-old Sioux
chief Big Foot was killed by the 7th U.S. Cavalry during the
massacre at Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890. Three days later his
body was found frozen where he had been killed. The South Dakota
reservation had been left in disarray when Sioux leader Sitting Bull
was killed by Indian police on December 15, and as Big Foot led his
tribe away from the reservation on December 28, they were surrounded
by 7th Cavalry troops. The next morning, when the cavalry tried to
disarm the Sioux, shots broke out and during the next 6 hours, 146
Sioux men, women and children were killed. The 7th Cavalry lost 30
killed. The Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota as some
300 Sioux Indians were killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.
(HFA, '96, p.44)(AP, 12/29/97)(HN,
12/29/98)(HNPD, 12/29/98)
1881 Frank Baum, publisher of
the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, called for the extermination of
American Indians. "Having wronged them for centuries we had better,
in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong
and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the
Earth." Baum later authored "The Wizard of Oz."
(SFC, 10/10/00, p.A2)
1892 Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild
West Show toured in England with Sioux Chief Long Wolf (59) and
7-year-old White Star, a girl whose real name was Rose Ghost Dog.
They both died on tour, he of pneumonia and she of a riding
accident. Their bodies were returned to Wolf Creek, South Dakota, in
1997 and reburied.
(SFC, 9/29/97, p.A8)
1896 Jun 11, US Assay Office in
Deadwood, South Dakota, was authorized.
(SC, 6/11/02)
1898 South Dakota became the
first US state to allow voter initiatives.
(Econ, 12/19/09, p.47)
1903 Aug, Calamity Jane died of
alcoholism and was buried in Deadwood’s Mount Moriah Cemetery, next
to the grave of Wild Bill.
(HNPD, 8/28/99)
1919 US Sen. Peter Norbeck
founded the 73,000 acre Custer State Park, 20 miles south of
Keystone, South Dakota.
(SSFC, 8/4/02, p.C11)
1921 Alexander Pell (formerly
known as Sergei Degaev), the 1st math prof. at the Univ. of South
Dakota, died. In 1883 Sergei Degaev (26) had shot and killed Lt.
Col. Georgii Sudeikin, security chief of Czar Alexander III. The 2
men had conspired to undermine both the government and the
Revolutionary People’s Will. Degaev fled Russia to the US where he
earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at Johns Hopkins. In 2003 Richard
Pipes authored "The Degaev Affair."
(WSJ, 4/17/03, p.D8)
1922 Jul 19, George McGovern,
1972 Democratic candidate for president of the United States, South
Dakota senator, was born.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1923 In South Dakota Gov.
William McMaster bought cut rate gas from a Chicago distributor and
began selling it at a state depot for 16 cents a gallon. Standard
Oil was charging 26.6 cents (equal to about $3.16 in 2008), which he
called “highway robbery.” Standard oil cut its price to 16.6 cents
and other states began to demand the same price. McMaster and
Standard eventually negotiated a price of 20 cents a gallon.
(WSJ, 3/31/08, p.B1)
1923 Doane Robinson, the aging
superintendent of the South Dakota State Historical Society,
proposed a massive mountain memorial carved from stone so large it
would put South Dakota on the map.
(www.ohranger.com/mount-rushmore/making-mount-rushmore)
1927 Aug 10, Pres. Calvin
Coolidge took part in the formal dedication of Mount Rushmore.
Gutzon Borglum began work and the Mount Rushmore project was
completed in 1941. When South Dakota officials invited Gutzon
Borglum (1867-1941) to design a sculpture on the face of the Black
Hills, he declared, "American history shall march along that
skyline." Bor-glum’s son Lincoln (d.1986) led the completion of the
project created by some 400 workers.
(www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/texte/mount_rushmore.htm)(SSFC, 9/9/07,
p.C4)(ON, 2/11, p.10)
1929 Feb 22, with the influence
of Congressman William Williamson and Senator Peter Norbeck pushing
Congress for approval of the bill and President Coolidge ready to
sign it into law, Public Law 805 was passed and the Mount Rushmore
National Memorial Commission was established.
(http://moh.tie.net/content/docs/WhySD.pdf)
1931 Jul 27, Grasshoppers in
Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota destroyed thousands of acres of
crops.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1933 Mar 3, Mount Rushmore was
dedicated.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1934 Feb 22, George "Sparky"
Anderson, baseball manager (Reds, Tigers), was born in SD.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1935 Nov 11, Albert Anderson
and Orvil Anderson set a new altitude record in South Dakota, when
they floated to 74,000 feet in a balloon.
(HN, 11/11/98)
1938 Clarence "Pappy" Hoel, a
motorcycle shop owner in Sturgis, organized a motorcycle rally that
attracted 200 riders and became an annual event. In 2000 the rally
attracted some 600,000 people for its 60th anniversary.
(WT-NWA, 7/01, p.46)
1941 Mar 6, John Gutzon de la
Mothe Borglum (b.1867), sculptor (Mount Rushmore), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutzon_Borglum)
1941 Oct 31, The Mt. Rushmore
sculpture was completed after 14 years of work. [see 1927]
(HFA, '96, p.40)(HN, 10/31/01)
1947 The Fort Pierre Livestock
Auction in South Dakota began business.
(WSJ, 1/9/04, p.A1)
1948 Jun 3, Korczak Ziolkowski
(1908-1982), a self-taught sculptor, began blasting a figure of
Crazy Horse into rock in the Black Hills of South Dakota under an
invitation by the Lakota Sioux. Ziolkowski had worked under Gutzon
Borglum at the Mount Rushmore site. The face of Crazy Horse, at the
site known as Thunder Mountain, was completed and dedicated in 1998.
{Artist, Amerindian, South Dakota}
(SSFC, 7/28/02, Par p.11)(SSFC, 9/9/07, p.C4)
1955-1959 Joe Foss (1915-2002), WW II fighter
pilot, served as governor of South Dakota. He hosted ABC TV’s "The
American Sportsman from 1964-1967, and produced and hosted the
syndicated TV show "The Outdoorsman Joe Foss" from 1967-1974.
(SFC, 1/2/03, p.A16)
1962 The Lake Oahe reservoir in
South Dakota, created by the US Army Corps of Engineers, reduced the
Cheyenne River reservation of the Sioux Indians by 100,000 acres.
(Econ, 10/15/05, p.34)
1963 Sep 14, Mary Ann Fischer
of Aberdeen, S.D., gave birth to four girls and a boy, the first
surviving quintuplets in the United States.
(AP, 9/14/03)
1966 Oct 15, South Dakota’s
Mount Rushmore was listed on the National Register of Historic
Places.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore)
1970 Dee Brown (1908-2002),
American writer, published "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," a
history of Native Americans in the American West in the late
nineteenth century and their displacement and slaughter by the
United States federal government.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury_My_Heart_at_Wounded_Knee)
1973 Feb 27, Members of the
American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in
South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and
children. They protested illegal and discriminatory acts on the part
of the Pine Ridge Sioux Tribal Council. The FBI was called in and a
siege lasted for 69 days with 2 AIM leaders killed. The story is
told in the 1996 book "Like A Hurricane, The Indian Movement From
Alcatraz to Wounded Knee" by Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen
Warrior.
(SFC, 6/14/96, p.A19)(AP, 2/27/98)(SFC, 12/30/98,
p.A17)(SFEC, 1/5/97, BR p.8)
1973 Mar 2, Federal forces
surrounded Wounded Knee, South Dakota, which was occupied by members
of the militant American Indian Movement who were holding at least
10 hostages.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1973 Mar 11, An FBI agent was
shot at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1973 May 8, Militant American
Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10
weeks surrendered.
(AP, 5/8/97)
1975 Jun 26, There was a
firefight on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota as FBI agents
pursued a robbery suspect. In 1977 Leonard Peltier, an Ojibwa-Sioux
Indian, was found guilty of murdering 2 FBI agents, Ronald Williams
and Jack Coler as they lay wounded. In 1983 Peter Matthiessen wrote
"In the Spirit of Crazy Horse," that described the related events.
The book was pulled out of bookstores after an FBI agent and a
former governor sued him for libel. Matthiessen claims to have
spoken to the man who actually shot the agents.
(SFC,11/22/97, p.D1)(SFEC,12/797, p.B11)(SFC,
11/9/99, p.A10)(SFC, 6/26/00, p.A4)
1975 Dec 12, In South Dakota
Anna Mae Pictou Aquash (b.1945) was shot to death. American Indian
Movement (AIM) members suspected her of being an FBI informant. Her
body was found on Feb 24, 1976, on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In
2003 Arlo Looking Cloud (50) was convicted in the murder. John
Graham, a Canadian, and Fritz Arlo Looking Cloud, a US citizen, were
indicted in 2003 in the United States for Aquash's murder. In 2007 a
Canadian court ruled that Graham should be extradited to the United
States to face trial. In 2011 Graham was sentenced to serve life in
prison.
(SFC, 2/7/04, p.A3)(Reuters,
6/26/07)(www.dickshovel.com/time.html#1976)(SFC, 1/25/11, p.A6)
1979 Jun 13, Sioux Indians were
awarded $105 million in compensation for the U.S. seizure in 1877 of
their Black Hills in South Dakota.
(HN, 6/13/98)
1981 Jul 1, Tim Giago, an
Oglala Sioux writer from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South
Dakota, launched The Lakota Times, the first independently owned
Indian newspaper in the US.
(SSFC, 12/23/07, p.F1)
1990 A 50-foot female T. rex,
65 million years old, was discovered on a Cheyenne River Reservation
in South Dakota by Sue Hendrickson. The government seized the
skeleton in 1992 and in 1997 it was put up for auction by Sotheby’s
on behalf of Maurice Williams, a Sioux Indian and owner of the ranch
where it was found. The proceeds will be held in trust by the
government. Backers of the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History
paid $8.36 million.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A13)(SFC,12/897, p.A3)
1992 Feb 25, President Bush won
the South Dakota Republican primary, Bob Kerrey the Democratic
primary.
(AP, 2/25/02)
1993 Apr 19, South Dakota Gov.
George S. Mickelson (52) died in an Iowa plane crash.
(AP, 4/19/97)
1998 May 30, A tornado tore
through Spencer, S.D., killing six people. It destroyed 90% of the
town.
(SFC, 6/1/98, p.A1)(AP, 5/30/99)
1998 May, In Rapid City
Benjamin Long Wolf was found dead in Rapid Creek. Over the next 14
months 7 more men, were found dead in the creek, most with high
levels of alcohol.
(SFC, 6/12/00, p.A3)
1998 Jun 3, An 87-foot memorial
to Crazy Horse, sculpted into rock near Custer in the South Dakota
Black Hills by Korczak Ziolkowski (d.1982), was dedicated after 50
years of work.
(SFC, 4/13/98, p.A5)(SSFC, 7/28/02, Par p.11)
1998 Nov 10, A heavy snow storm
hit the northern Midwest. Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas
suffered loss of power, heavy snow and violent winds.
(SFC, 11/11/98, p.A3)
1999 Jul, In Mobridge 4 white
youths were charged in the death of Robert Many Horses.
(WSJ, 8/27/99, p.A1)
2000 Jan 16, A group of some
100 took control of the tribal building at Pine Ridge Reservation.
They called for the immediate resignation of Treasurer Wesley
"Chuck" Jacobs and all 17 members of the tribal council and a full
audit of all records.
(SFC, 1/18/00, p.A5)
2000 Ian Frazier authored "On
the Rez," a focus on the Ogallala Sioux Reservation in Pine Ridge,
S.D.
(WSJ, 1/14/00, p.W10)
2003 Jan 1, Joe Foss (87),
former South Dakota Gov. and World War II hero who also served as
president of the National Rifle Association and commissioner of the
American Football League, died at an Arizona hospital.
(AP, 1/1/04)
2003 Aug 16, Bill Janklow (64),
US Congressional Representative and former South Dakota governor,
ran a stop sign and killed motorcyclist Randolph E. Scott (55) near
Flandreau, SD. On Aug 29 Janklow was charged with manslaughter.
Janklow was found guilty of felony manslaughter on Dec 8 and
announced his resignation effective Jan 20. Janklow was sentenced to
serve 100 days in a county jail.
(SFC, 8/30/03, p.A3)(SFC, 12/9/03, p.A5)(SFC,
1/23/04, p.A3)
2003 Aug 29, Rep. Bill Janklow,
R-S.D., was charged with felony manslaughter in a car accident that
claimed the life of motorcyclist Randolph E. Scott. Janklow was
later convicted and served 100 days in jail.
(AP, 8/29/04)
2003 Dec 1, US Rep. Bill
Janklow went on trial in Flandreau, S.D., charged with manslaughter
in the death of a motorcyclist who'd collided with his automobile.
Janklow was convicted and served 100 days in jail.
(AP, 12/1/04)
2003 Dec 8, US Rep. Bill
Janklow, R-S.D., resigned after being convicted in the traffic death
of a motorcyclist, Randy Scott.
(AP, 12/8/04)
2004 Jan 2, The Fort Pierre
Livestock Auction in South Dakota managed to auction beef calves at
around 92.5 cents a pound. This was 15-20% below mid-December prices
due to the recent mad cow scare.
(WSJ, 1/9/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 2, South Dakotans
elected Democrat Stephanie Herseth to Rep. Janklow’s seat.
(WSJ, 6/3/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 3, Republicans
tightened their grip on the US Senate capturing a string of seats
across the South. Democratic Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota lost
to Rep. John Thune.
(AP, 11/3/04)
2004 Dec, Cecilia Fire Thunder
(58) took office as chairwoman of the 46,000 member Ogallala Sioux
on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
(Econ, 1/29/05, p.32)
2005 Aug 18, It was reported
that an anthrax outbreak had killed hundreds of cattle in parts of
the Great Plains, forcing quarantines and devastating Dakota
ranchers who worry how they will recover financially. Two ranches in
Texas were quarantined last month after anthrax was found in cattle,
horses and deer.
(AP, 8/18/05)
2005 Nov 29, Broad areas of the
Dakotas remained shut down by the Plains' first blizzard of the
season, with highways closed by blowing, drifting snow and thousands
of people without electricity as temperatures hit the low teens.
(AP, 11/29/05)
2006 Feb 11, It was reported
that the town of Hull was one of many in central Iowa whose
groundwater has been contaminated by farm chemicals. It pinned hopes
for its future water supply on the new Lewis and Clark Rural Water
System, due to open in 2018. The system planned to pump Missouri
River water across South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa.
(Econ, 2/11/06, p.33)
2006 Feb 22, South Dakota’s
Senate advanced a law banning abortion in virtually all cases, with
the intention of forcing the Supreme Court to reconsider its 1973
decision legalizing the procedure. The law, which would punish
doctors who perform the operation with a five-year prison term and a
$5,000 fine, awaits the signature of Republican Gov. Michael Rounds
and people on both sides of the issue say he is unlikely to veto it.
(Reuters, 2/22/06)(WSJ, 2/23/06, p.A1)
2006 Feb 24, South Dakota
lawmakers approved a ban on nearly all abortions.
(AP, 2/24/07)
2006 Mar 6, Gov. Mike Rounds of
South Dakota signed a sweeping state abortion ban. It was an
intentional provocation to set up a legal challenge to the 1973
Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade decision that made abortion legal.
Abortion-rights groups were able to get enough signatures to put the
measure to a vote, and the ban was rejected in the November
election.
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.A8)(AP, 3/6/07)
2006 Mar 12-2006 Mar 13, Swarms
of tornadoes killed at least 10 people across the Midwest states of
Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, South Dakota, Minnesota and
Wisconsin. It caused so much damage in Springfield, Ill., that the
mayor compared it to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Apr 2, It was reported
that Cecilia Fire Thunder, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in
South Dakota, had joined with 14 co-chairs to form the South Dakota
Campaign for Healthy Families. The group planned a referendum in
favor of abortion.
(SSFC, 4/2/06, p.A4)
2006 May, The tribal council of
the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota voted to ban all abortions
and to temporarily suspend Cecilia Fire Thunder for soliciting
donations for an abortion clinic without council approval.
(Econ, 7/1/06, p.31)
2006 Jun 6, In South Dakota
Bill Nguyen and his wife, Tina, stepped forward with the winning
ticket for a nearly $117 million Powerball lottery jackpot, beating
1-in-146 million odds.
(AP, 6/7/06)
2006 Jun 29, The tribal council
of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota impeached Cecilia Fire
Thunder for soliciting donations for an abortion clinic without
council approval. The Council replaced her with Alex White Plume.
(AP, 6/30/06)
2006 Nov 7, South Dakota
rejected a law that would have banned virtually all abortions.
(AP, 11/8/06)
2008 Jun 3, Barack Obama sealed
the US Democratic presidential nomination. Hillary Clinton did not
give up yet, but said she’d be interested in the No. 2 spot. Obama
won the Montana primary, while Clinton won the South Dakota primary.
(AP, 6/4/08)(SFC, 6/4/08, p.A1)(Econ, 6/7/08,
p.35)
2009 Mar 19, South Dakota Gov.
Mike rounds signed legislation banning smoking from all indoor
public places.
(SFC, 3/20/09, p.A8)
2009 Jun 5, Neal Wanless (23)
accepted his multi-million Powerball check at a ceremony in Pierre,
South Dakota. Wanless bought $15 worth of tickets to the May 27
thirty-state drawing for $232 million at a convenience store in
Winner during a trip to buy livestock feed. He will take home a lump
sum of $88.5 million after taxes are deducted.
(AP, 6/6/09)
2009 Jun 17, The number of
Nebraska cattle herds quarantined because of bovine tuberculosis
concerns jumped to 42 and Colorado and South Dakota were warned the
disease may have already spread there.
(AP, 6/17/09)
2009 Jun 22, In Lead, South
Dakota, scientists, politicians and other officials gathered for a
groundbreaking of sorts at a lab 4,850 foot below the surface of an
old gold mine that was once the site of Nobel Prize-winning physics
research, a place uniquely suited to scientists' quest for
mysterious particles known as dark matter.
(AP, 6/23/09)
2009 Nov 27, Bison returned to
Mexico for the first time since the 1800s, with Mexican authorities
releasing 23 donated US animals in northern Chihuahua state. The
donated bison came from the Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota.
(AP, 11/27/09)
2009 Dec 3, The IRS auctioned
7,100 acres of Crow creek Sioux tribal land near Pierre, South
Dakota to help pay off over $3 million in back taxes. The land sold
for $2.6 million.
(SFC, 12/4/09, p.A15)
2011 Apr 13, South Dakota
inmates Eric Robert (48) and Rodney Berget (48) were charged with
first degree felony murder. They had attacked prison guard Ronald
Johnson (63), wrapped his head in plastic shrink wrap and left him
to die as they used his uniform in an unsuccessful escape attempt.
(SFC, 4/14/11, p.A5)
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