February 1909 - February 17, 1909 (Wednesday)

February 17, 1909 (Wednesday)

• Geronimo, Chiricahua Apache war chief who led the Apaches for twenty years in wars against white invaders of the Southwest United States, died of pneumonia at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Six days earlier, the man born as Goyaałé, had gone to Lawton, got drunk, fell off of his horse into a creek, and was not found until hours later, by which time illness had set in.