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Sylvia Burleigh 1890 - 1975

Sylvia Burleigh of Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge County, Louisiana was born on February 3, 1890, and died at age 85 years old in August 1975.

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Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge County, Louisiana 70806
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In 1890, in the year that Sylvia Burleigh was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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In 1905, Sylvia was just 15 years old when the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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Burleigh, Eugene (Dec 2, 1894 - Jul 1966) Burleigh, Roscoe (Jun 6, 1881 - Dec 1964) Burleigh, Charles (Nov 6, 1901 - Feb 1976) Burleigh, Donald (Nov 30, 1899 - Dec 1964) Burleigh, Violet (Sep 3, 1899 - Aug 1977) Burleigh, Jesse (Jul 26, 1900 - Jun 1965) Burleigh, Harold (Mar 14, 1921 - Jul 1978) Burleigh, Joseph (Oct 25, 1900 - May 1980) Burleigh, Stanley (Feb 19, 1904 - Aug 1986) Burleigh, William (Jan 4, 1928 - Jan 13, 2004)
Burleigh, Gordon (May 25, 1925 - Jan 31, 1996) Burleigh, Walter (Apr 26, 1931 - May 4, 2011) Burleigh, Frank (Jan 21, 1935 - Jun 1983) Burleigh, Harriet (Jun 26, 1904 - Oct 1972) Burleigh, Lilliam (Sep 9, 1893 - Oct 1983) Burleigh, Charlotte (Sep 5, 1915 - Jan 15, 2002) Burleigh, Helen (Jul 9, 1889 - Apr 1977) Burleigh, Marjorie (Jan 2, 1888 - Jul 1973) Burleigh, Ruth (Jan 3, 1892 - May 1979) Burleigh, Maude (Jan 6, 1897 - Mar 1974)
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