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The area of South Dakota is 77,047 sq.
miles and the capital is
Pierre.
(WUD, 1994, p.1360)
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)
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.
(www.ohranger.com/mount-rushmore/making-mount-rushmore)
1927 Work on Mount Rushmore began
and 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."
Borglum’s son Lincoln (d.1986) led the completion of the project
created by some 400 workers.
(HNQ, 4/17/00)(SSFC, 9/9/07, p.C4)
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 (73), sculptor (Mount Rushmore), died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
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)
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, 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.
(SFC, 2/7/04, p.A3)(Reuters,
6/26/07)(www.dickshovel.com/time3.html)
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)
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