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The suicide race was created in 1935 by Claire Pentz, the publicity director of the Omak rodeo, in an effort to promote the rodeo. [2] The race is rooted in nineteenth century Native American endurance races, which were held in on the Colville Indian Reservation in a valley near Keller, which was flooded after construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in the 1930s.
On 1 December 2024, a stampede occurred at the Stade du 3 Avril, a football stadium in the Guinean city of Nzérékoré, resulting in at least 56 deaths. [2] Civil society groups said at least 150 people died, most of them children.
The BBC reported that "Some of the dead were buried in the collapse, but most died in a stampede to avoid the landslide." [46] 53: 30 May 1999: Nyamiha stampede: Belarus: Minsk: A sudden thunderstorm caused a number of young people to race for nearby shelter during an open-air concert.
Calgary Stampede rodeo champions have won their respective events in one of the largest rodeos in the world; the rodeo is the heart of the Calgary Stampede. [1] With a prize of $50,000 to the winner of each major discipline, it offers one of the richest payouts in rodeo competition. [ 2 ]
Omak (/ oʊ ˈ m æ k / o-MAK [3]) is a city located in the foothills of the Okanogan Highlands in north-central Washington, United States.With a population of 4,860 residents as of 2020, distributed over a land area of 3.43 square miles (8.9 km 2), Omak is the largest municipality of Okanogan County and the largest municipality in Central Washington north of Wenatchee.
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