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On December 4, 1919, South Dakota became the 21st state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, allowing women’s suffrage.
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On November 27, 2005, an ice storm caused excessive damage to twelve hundred transmission poles and approximately 725 miles of power lines.
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On November 20, 2013, Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota code talkers who served in World War II against Germany and Japan posthumously received the Congressional Code Talkers Medal of Service.
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On November 13, 1903, the Aberdeen Democrat Newspaper reported on a recent meeting of the “Social Science Club”.
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On November 6. 1915, a complaint was filed against the Onida Telephone Company for what was considered insufficient nighttime and Sunday telephone service.
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On October 30, 1919, South Dakota held its first official pheasant hunting season.
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On October 23, 1911, President William Howard Taft was completing a 3-day visit to South Dakota.
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On October 16, 1979, Dr Theodore Schultz was announced as one of two recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
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On October 9, 1942, Joe Foss arrived for duty at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
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The South Dakota Parks and Recreation Association was founded on October 2, 1965