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This blog was updated on a daily basis for about two years, with those daily entries ceasing on December 31, 2013. The blog is still active, however, and we hope that people stopping in, who find something lacking, will add to the daily entries.

The blog still receives new posts as well, but now it receives them on items of Wyoming history. That has always been a feature of the blog, but Wyoming's history is rich and there are many items that are not fully covered here, if covered at all. Over time, we hope to remedy that.

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

March 7

1847  U.S. troops occupy Vera Cruz,  Mexico.

1871  First National Bank of Cheyenne chartered. Attribution:  On This Day.

1890  A Congressman from Illinois announced his opposition to Wyoming statehood due to suffrage provision in the proposed state's constitution.

1899  The Philippine Insurrection starts at San Juan del Monte with an assault by Philippine troops..  The first shot is fired by an Englishman serving in the Nebraska volunteers.  First engagement starts with that shot followed by shots fired by Nebraska and Wyoming volunteers and soon other troops, from state volunteer units were engaged.  The Philippine forces initially took some American positions, but by the end of the day, positions were retaken.

1911 The U.S. deploys 20,000 troops to the Mexican border due to the Mexican Revolution.

1917   The Cheyenne State Leader for March 7, 1917: Mustering Out
 

Mustering out was going quickly.  This Wednesday paper was reporting that Wyoming National Guardsmen would be mustered out by Saturday.

What that would have meant, in this context, is that they were spending all day cleaning equipment and inventorying it.  After that, they'd be released from full time duty and returned to their local units.  What occurred to the men who had never actually been in those units, and that was quite a few men, I don't know.

1918   March 7, 1918. Not knowing when to get up from the table. Leaving after having gotten there late. Villa resumes losing and acts spiteful to foreigners. . . except the Germans.
 

The Russians had surrendered.  Even at that, the Germans kept taking ground. . . and all while they presumably are getting ready for a Spring Offensive in the West designed to win the war prior to millions of fresh American troops coming into action.



Romania, spelled differently in those days, hadn't been at war with the Central Powers for long and it was also getting out.  You have to wonder why they even wanted in the war in the first place. By the time they got in, its horrific nature was pretty plain.

And if reports were correct, Villa's fortunes were not going well, and he was lashing out.

1919  March 7, 1919. Transportation in Archangel 7, 1919, Convalescing in Paris, Coming home to Wyoming.

The Russians had long used reindeer for transportation, including occasional military transportation, in Siberia.  The American Army in Siberia found itself doing the same thing for the same practical reasons.


The Hotel de Louvre, a first rate Parisian hotel, was taken over during the war by the Red Cross and used for a hospital.  It was still receiving that use in the immediate post war months.


And men of the 116th Ammunition Train, including Wyoming National Guardsmen who had been infantrymen when Federalized for the Great War, arrived in Cheyenne.  There were more Wyoming Guardsmen to come.




1944  It is announced that the Wyoming State Hospital at Rock Springs will be training nurses for the Army.

2008  Then Senator Barack Obama spoke at the University of Wyoming.

2016  News broke that former Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Cindy Hill filed suit against Legislator Tim Stubson, who is running for Congress, for defamation.  The suit alleges that statements published on Stubson's Facebook page defamed Hill.

 
Natrona County Courthouse, where the suit was filed.

Hill had been a lightening rod for criticism during her tenure as Superintendent of Public Instruction and was involved in a protracted battle with her critics and the legislature.  She lost much of her authority when the legislature removed it in favor of a new appointed office, which ultimately was reversed by the Wyoming Supreme Court.  By that time she was running for governor against the incumbent Matt Mead, a race which failed.

2018  Students at NCHS staged a mid day walk out in solidarity with the victims of school violence.

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