Spearfish Valley

Frank Grounds, the leader of the 1874 Yellowstone Wagon Road and Prospecting Expedition, died of pneumonia in the Spearfish Valley (current South Dakota) on September 23, 1877.  (Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Gold and Guns: The 1874 Yellowstone Wagon Road and Prospecting Expedition, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and the Battle of Lodge Grass Creek)

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Daniel Newell in his later years

Private Daniel J. Newell, Company M, 7th Cavalry died on September 23, 1933 at Hot Springs, South Dakota.  (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)

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Wilhelm Kube

Wilhelm Kube, Gauleiter of the Ostmark, Gauleiter of the Kurmark, born in Glogau (Silesia) on November 13, 1887, Governor of Byelorussia, honorary SS-Gruppenführer, winner of Nazi Golden Party Badge, assassinated on September 23, 1943 in Minsk by a bomb placed under his bed, said of religion: “God has created me a German.  Germanism is a gift of God; God desires that I battle for my Germanism…”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)