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Crow Dog
Ex parte Crow Dog is an 1883 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that followed the death of one member of a Native American tribe at the hands of another on reservation land. Crow Dog (pictured) was a member of the Brulé band of the Lakota Sioux. On August 5, 1881, he shot and killed Spotted Tail, a Lakota chief; there are different accounts of the background to the killing. The tribal council dealt with the incident according to Sioux tradition, and Crow Dog paid restitution to the dead man's family. However, the U.S. authorities then prosecuted Crow Dog for murder in a federal court. He was found guilty and sentenced to hang. The Supreme Court held that unless authorized by Congress, federal courts had no jurisdiction to try cases where the offense had already been tried by the tribal council, and so Crow Dog was released. The case led to the Major Crimes Act in 1885, which placed some major crimes under federal jurisdiction if committed by an Indian against another Indian on a reservation or tribal land. This case was the beginning of the plenary power legal doctrine that has been used in Indian case law to limit tribal sovereignty. (Full article...)
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Anas al-Liby, indicted for the 1998 United States embassy bombings, is captured by U.S. forces near Tripoli, Libya.
The Gambia withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
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The U.S. federal government shuts down non-essential services after Congress fails to pass a budget measure.
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October 8: Independence Day in Croatia (1991)

The Great Chicago Fire, an artist's rendering
1076 – Demetrius Zvonimir, the last native king who exerted any real power over the entire Croatian state, was crowned.
1871 – Four large fires broke out in the United States, including the Great Chicago Fire (pictured) and the Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin, the latter being the deadliest fire in U.S. history.
1918 – World War I: After his platoon suffered heavy casualties during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France's Forest of Argonne, American Sergeant Alvin C. York led the seven remaining men on an attack against a German machine gun nest, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others.
1967 – Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured near La Higuera, Bolivia.
2001 – At Linate Airport in Milan, Italy, Scandinavian Airlines Flight SK686 collided on take-off with a Cessna Citation II business jet, killing 118 people.
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