Historical clue formulations

• Second-smallest U.S. state capital by population (about 14,000 people) — 2026-07-04
• Capital of South Dakota — 2025-07-01
• Second-smallest U.S. state capital by population, after Montpelier — 2024-12-22
• "War and Peace" character who determines through numerology that he is destined to assassinate Napoleon — 2024-02-07
• South Dakota's capital — 2023-08-07
• Karine Jean-___, White House media person beginning in 2022 — 2023-05-06
• Second-least populous state capital, after Montpelier — 2022-08-21
• French conductor Boulez — 2020-12-08
• Justin Trudeau's father — 2020-11-23
• Marie Curie's research partner and husband — 2020-10-05
• Only state capital that shares no letters with the name of its state — 2020-06-07
• State capital whose name is pronounced as one syllable (not two, as many think) — 2020-03-14
• South Dakota's capital — 2014-06-09
• Religious art figures — 2013-08-25
• Luxury hotel along Manhattan's Central Park, with "the" — 2011-05-01
• Mathematician ___ de Fermat — 2009-06-21
• South Dakota's capital — 2007-09-10
• Capital on the Missouri — 2006-06-13
• State capital since 1889 — 2006-06-04
• State capital with just 14,000 people — 2005-05-06
• Great Plains capital — 2004-03-07
• State capital with just 13,000 people — 2000-11-03
• Capital of South Dakota — 2000-07-18
• Coyote State capital — 2000-07-12
• Capital on the Missouri — 1998-09-06
• South Dakota's capital — 1997-09-15
• United States' second-smallest state capital — 1997-01-18
• Composer Boulez — 1996-05-25
• Coyote State's capital — 1996-05-20
• General Beauregard — 1994-10-12
• Coyote State capital — 1994-04-15