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2 unusual facts about The Dakota


Sandy Douglass

His father, George P. Douglass, was a real estate manager who became manager of The Dakota, a famous apartment building in New York City, moving the family there in 1920.

Tom Brook

On December 8, 1980 he was the first British journalist to report live from outside the Dakota Apartment building on New York’s Upper West Side the night of John Lennon’s death.


RKO Radio Network

The network aired the last interview with John Lennon, recorded at The Dakota just hours before his death on December 8, 1980, by Dave Sholin, a San Francisco DJ, with radio producer Ron Hummel, who put together many music specials for RKO.

Rosaura Lopez

Rosaura Lopez Lorenzo (16 March 1932, Pontevedra, Spain – 19 September 2005, Pontevedra, Spain) was a maid of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the Dakota apartment between 1976 and 1980.

Ruth P. Smith

In 1962, she moved into a two-bedroom apartment in The Dakota on 72nd Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and she continued to live in this fifth-floor home for the next 50 years.

Walking on Thin Ice

It was upon their return from the recording studio to The Dakota (their home in New York City) that Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman.


see also

.20 Tactical

Lapua produces high quality cases in .20 Tactical sold under the Dakota Arms brand.

Battle of the Brule

This continued warfare between the Dakota and Ojibwe figured heavily in U.S. government policy in the Wisconsin Territory.

Battle of Wood Lake

Ramsey's plan, implemented by Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley and frontier commander Charles Eugene Flandrau, had the goals of freeing settlers held captive by the Indians and to "exterminate" or drive the Dakota "forever beyond the borders of the state".

Bugles in the Afternoon

When they reach Bismarck in the Dakota territory, Kern is welcomed to join the 7th Cavalry by an old friend, Capt. Myles Moylan, and assigned the rank of sergeant.

Catherine Weldon

After her divorce from Schlatter and later also from Weldon, she became committed to the cause of Native Americans, especially the Lakota Indians in the Dakota Territory.

Deuel County

Deuel County, South Dakota: named for Jacob S. Deuel, a pioneer and sawmill operator in the Dakota Territory

Granville Bennett

Granville G. Bennett, American lawyer, justice of the Supreme Court for the Dakota Territory, delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives

Interstate 74 in Iowa

The interstate passes over US 67 and railroad tracks beloning to the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad on an elevated highway, which serves as the approach to the Interstate 74 Bridge over the Mississippi River.

Jessica Palmer

The Dakota Peoples: A History of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota through 1863 - McFarland (January 2008) ISBN 0-7864-3177-6, ISBN 978-0-7864-3177-9

Lawrence County, South Dakota

Lawrence had previously served in the Dakota Territorial Legislature, as a Sergeant at Arms for the United States House of Representatives, and a US Marshal for the Dakota territory.

Peter C. Shannon

Shannon presided over the trial of Jack McCall for the killing of Wild Bill Hickok which resulted in the Dakota Territory's first legal hanging, and prepared the Criminal Code adopted by the Territorial Legislature in 1875.

Philander Prescott

During his life on the frontier he served as a government interpreter of the Dakota language (including for the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux).

Rochester 400

It originated as the Mankato, Minnesota to Wyeville, Wisconsin Minnesota 400 in 1936, then was later extended in 1950 to run all the way from Chicago, Illinois to Huron, South Dakota and renamed the Dakota 400.

St. Vital, Winnipeg

The St. Vital area contains a number of community centres, including the St. Vital Centennial Arena and the Jonathan Toews Community Centre (formerly the Dakota Community Centre).

West Okoboji Lake

Okoboji was derived from the Dakota name for the lake, and Wahpeton was the name of one of the major historic Sioux bands in the nineteenth century.

William Joseph Snelling

For example, he helped negotiate the resolution of hostilities between the Dakota and the Chippewa and Winnebago tribes.