History, News and Stories of South Dakota, USA

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• 1803 - U. S. acquired South Dakota from France in Louisiana Purchase
  
• 1804 - Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived in South Dakota
  
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• 1832 - Perhaps the most significant fur trade/military fort on the western American frontier, Fort Pierre Chouteau was the largest (almost 300' square) and best equipped trading post in the northern Great Plains.
  Built in 1832 by John Jacob Astor's (1763-1848) American Fur Company as part of its expansion into the Upper Missouri region, the trading activities... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1863 - First homestead filed in Dakota Territory
  
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• 1874 - Gold was discovered in Black Hills; gold rush began
  
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•   1879 - September 25 – Fire in Deadwood, South Dakota: Two thousand people left homeless; three hundred buildings destroyed. Total loss of property is estimated at $3 million.
  
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  September 25, 1879
  
• 1889 - South Dakota admitted into the Union as 40th state
  
•   1889 - Prairie fires had on the 4th completely wiped out three towns in South Dakota, and hundreds of farm-houses had been destroyed,
  also barns, with all their contents, and many persons were homeless and entirely destitute. The losses were placed at $2,000,000. Several lives were... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1890 - December 29 - Wounded Knee Massacre occurred - 7th Cavalry killed more than 250 Lakota men, women and children; Sitting Bull killed at Little Eagle; Indian wars ended
  
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  December 29, 1890
  
• 1895 - South Dakota
  South Dako'ta, a northwestern state of the American Union, bounded N, by North Dakota, from which it is separated by the seventh standard parallel,... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1924 - The Meridian Bridge built in 1924 was the first structure built across the Missouri River in South Dakota.
  
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•   1930 - July 4 – The dedication of George Washington's sculpted head is held at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
  
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  July 4, 1930
  
•   1933 - November 11 – Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands
  
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  November 11, 1933
  
• February 17, 1936 - The temperature at McIntosh SD plunged to 58 degrees below zero to establish a state record.
  
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•   1936 - August 30 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt attends the dedication of Thomas Jefferson's head at Mount Rushmore.
  
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  August 30, 1936
  
•   1937 - September 17 – Abraham Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore
  
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  September 17, 1937
  
•   1939 - July 2 – Theodore Roosevelt's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.
  
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  July 2, 1939
  
• 1941 - Mount Rushmore National Monument completed
  
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• January 20, 1943 - Strange vertical antics took place in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
  While the temperature at Deadwood was a frigid 16 degrees below zero, the town of Lead, just a mile and a half away, but 600 feet higher in... Read MORE...
  
  
•   January 22, 1943 - Chinook winds during the early morning hours caused the temperature at Spearfish SD to rise from 4 below zero to 45 above in just two minutes, the most dramatic temperature rise in world weather records.
  An hour and a half later the mercury plunged from 54 above to 4 below zero in twenty-seven minutes.
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  January 22, 1943
  
• 1948 - Korcak Ziolkowski began work on Crazy Horse Mountain
  
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• 1953 - Sitting Bull's grave sits on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River near Mobridge, South Dakota.
  In 1953 under the cover of darkness, a group of South Dakotans snuck into North Dakota, exhumed his bones (with his relatives' permission) and... Read MORE...
  
  
• January 6, 1962 - Snow storm
  Snow, strong winds, and sub-zero temperatures along with near blizzard conditions caused hazardous driving conditions across the area from the 6th... Read MORE...