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DECEMBER 15
1890:Sitting Bull, leader of the Sioux tribe, is killed in a bloody
confrontation with Indian police at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation
in present-day South Dakota. The Sioux chief had been put under arrest
by Indian Service agent James McLaughlin, who feared that Sitting Bull
would lead the growing Ghost Dance movement.
1944: Popular bandleader and trombonist Glenn Miller
is killed when the single-engine plane carrying him and his band to a
Christmas concert in Paris disappears in heavy fog over the English
Channel. Miller, a best-selling musician known for hits such as "In the
Mood" and "Chattanooga Choo Choo," had joined the U.S. Army in 1942, performing hundreds of morale-raising performances for the Allied troops in World War II.
1992: Tennis great Arthur Ashe is named Sportsman of the Year
by Sports Illustrated magazine. Eight months earlier, Ashe, the first
African American man to win a tennis Grand Slam event, announced that he
had contracted HIV/AIDS through a blood transfusion.
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