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Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.

On June 9, in the year 1972, Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage. This event is recorded as a Historical Events event in the history of June 9, a notable event in this corner of history.

The Black Hills are an outlying subrange of the greater Rocky Mountain system rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and eastern Wyoming, United States. Black Elk Peak, which rises to 7,242 feet (2,207 m), is the range's highest summit. The name of the range in Lakota is Pahá Sápa. It encompasses the Black Hills National Forest. It formed as a result of an upwarping of ancient rock, after which the removal of the higher portions of the mountain mass by stream erosion produced the present-day topography. The Black Hills are part of the North American Cordillera, specifically a range within the Rocky Mountain Front of Wyoming, South Dakota, and Montana. The mountains are so called because of their dark appearance from a distance, as they are covered in evergreen trees.

Key Facts

  • This event took place on June 9, 1972 (AD era).
  • It is categorised as a Historical Events event in recorded history.
  • Referenced in 3 Wikipedia articles.
  • The event is associated with a specific geographical location (see map below).
  • Wikipedia source last updated on 22 May 2026.

On This Date in History

Type Year Date Event
Notable Deaths 2025 Jun 9 Sly Stone, American musician and record producer (Sly and the Family Stone)
Notable Deaths 2024 Jun 9 James Lawson, American activist, professor, and minister (born 1928)
Notable Deaths 2023 Jun 9 Alain Touraine, French sociologist (born 1925)
Notable Deaths 2022 Jun 9 Julee Cruise, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (born 1956)
Notable Deaths 2022 Jun 9 Billy Kametz, American voice actor (born 1987)
Notable Deaths 2022 Jun 9 Matt Zimmerman, Canadian actor (born 1934)
Notable Deaths 2022 Jun 9 Amir Liaquat Hussain, Pakistani politician, columnist and television host
Notable Deaths 2019 Jun 9 Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (born 1966)
Selected Events 2019 Jun 9 Dominican-American retired baseball player David Ortiz was shot and severely wounded while at a bar in Santo Domingo
Notable Deaths 2018 Jun 9 Fadil Vokrri, Kosovo Albanian football administrator and player (born 1960)
Notable Deaths 2017 Jun 9 Adam West, American actor and investor (born 1928)
Notable Deaths 2015 Jun 9 Pumpkinhead, American rapper (born 1975)
Notable Deaths 2015 Jun 9 Pedro Zerolo, Spanish lawyer and politician (born 1960)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jun 9 Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jun 9 Stuart Long, American boxer and Catholic priest (born 1963)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jun 9 Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1958)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jun 9 Elsie Quarterman, American ecologist and academic (born 1910)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jun 9 Alicemarie Huber Stotler, American lawyer and judge (born 1942)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jun 9 Gustave Tassell, American fashion designer (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jun 9 Bob Welch, American baseball player and coach (born 1956)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jun 9 Iain Banks, Scottish author (born 1954)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jun 9 Bruno Bartoletti, Italian conductor (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jun 9 John Burke, English rugby player (born 1948)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jun 9 Walter Jens, German philologist, historian, and academic (born 1923)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jun 9 Zdeněk Rotrekl, Czech poet and historian (born 1920)
Notable Deaths 2012 Jun 9 Régis Clère, French cyclist (born 1956)
Notable Deaths 2012 Jun 9 John Maples, Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (born 1943)
Notable Deaths 2012 Jun 9 Ivan Minatti, Slovene poet and translator (born 1924)
Notable Deaths 2012 Jun 9 Hawk Taylor, American baseball player and coach (born 1939)
Notable Deaths 2012 Jun 9 Abram Wilson, American-English trumpet player and educator (born 1973)
Notable Deaths 2011 Jun 9 M
Notable Deaths 2011 Jun 9 Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (born 1970)
Notable Deaths 2011 Jun 9 Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (born 1956)
Historical Events 2010 Jun 9 At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar
Notable Deaths 2010 Jun 9 Ken Brown, British Guitarist who was a member of The Quarrymen (born 1940)
Selected Events 2010 Jun 9 A child suicide bomber attacked a wedding in Nadahan, Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring at least 70 o
Historical Events 2009 Jun 9 An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan
Notable Deaths 2009 Jun 9 Dick May, American race car driver (born 1930)
Historical Events 2008 Jun 9 Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people
Notable Deaths 2008 Jun 9 Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American author and critic (born 1931)
Notable Deaths 2008 Jun 9 Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian and author (born 1919)
Notable Deaths 2007 Jun 9 Frankie Abernathy, American purse designer, cast-member on The Real World: San Diego (born 1981)
Notable Deaths 2006 Jun 9 Drafi Deutscher, German singer-songwriter (born 1946)
Notable Deaths 2004 Jun 9 Rosey Brown, American football player and coach (born 1932)
Notable Deaths 2004 Jun 9 Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist, co-founded J-FLAG (born 1945)
Notable Births 2000 Jun 9 Diego Lainez, Mexican footballer
Notable Deaths 2000 Jun 9 John Abramovic, American basketball player (born 1919)
Notable Deaths 2000 Jun 9 Jacob Lawrence, American painter and academic (born 1917)
Historical Events 1999 Jun 9 Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty
Selected Events 1999 Jun 9 Yugoslav Wars: The Kumanovo Agreement was signed, bringing an end to the Kosovo War the next day

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