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29th December 1890: Lakota Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee

29th December 2025
Tagged as: American West, Lakota, Native Americans, Sioux, United States, USA, Westward Expansion, Wild West, Wounded Knee

More than 150 Native Americans from the Lakota tribe were killed by U.S. soldiers in the Wounded Knee Massacre.

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25th June 1876: Battle of Little Bighorn takes place after American Lieutenant Colonel George Custer leads federal troops against Plains Indians

25th June 2023
Tagged as: America, Army, Black Hills, Lakota, Native Americans, Plains Indians, Reservation, Sioux, Sitting Bull, United States, USA

The forces of the Plains Indians outnumbered Custer’s troops, and they wee caught in a pincer movement after Crazy Horse led another group of Sioux to surround them.

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29th December 1890: Lakota Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee

25th June 1876: Battle of Little Bighorn takes place after American Lieutenant Colonel George Custer leads federal troops against Plains Indians

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

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15th October 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte arrives at his exile on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic

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13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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