1885 Louis Riel surrenders to Middleton's troops; North West Rebellion ends after 100 days.
1888 Voters chose Douglas as the county seat of Converse County. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1889 State mental hospital opened in Evanston. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1898 Pioneer Jim Baker died.
1918 The news. . . Germans stall. .. Soviets react. . . .Airmail starts. . . Mayor Speer of Denver dies. . . The news from May 15, 1918.
A familiar name, even if most people don't recall who his was. Mayor Speer, after whom Speer Blvd in Denver is named, passed.
One of the 1918 epidemic tally?
The Soviets had apparently had enough of German encroachment and were now fighting back.
Perhaps the Germans should have thought that through. It's not as if they had a lot of spare men, after all.
That Bisbee thing was back in the news.
And airmail was getting rolling!
1921 The Great Solar Storm of 1921 was impacting the region.
The Great Solar Storm, which impacted most notably New York state in the US, also impacted the Rocky Mountain Region, as of course it would, being a global event.
It didn't keep, however, Curtiss Flying Field from opening in Garden City, New York, even though flying during a solar storm in something made out of, basically, paper and wood seems like a bad idea.
1930 Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a
United Airlines flight from San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyo.
1942 Gas rationing limits US motorist to 3 gallons per week, except for those in critical industries.
1944 It was announced that Italians soldiers brought into the US as POWs would receive technical training at Ft. F. E. Warren. By this time, the Italians were no longer prisoners, as Italy had first surrendered and then declared war on the Axis powers. A fair number of Italian POWs had been brought into the US due to combat in North Africa and Sicily. In Wyoming, Italians were held in at least one location, that being the POW camp at Douglas. They painted the murals there, which still exist in the one surviving building from the POW camp. Attribution: On This Day.
1944 USS Crook County commissioned.
1975 F. E. Warren (D. A. Russell) designated a National Historic Landmark District. Attribution: On This Day.
1978 Significant flooding occured throughout the state resulting in over $15,000,000 in damage in 1978 dollars.
1986 The Jack Creek Guard Station outside of Saratoga added to the National Register of Historic Places.
1990 The Remount Ranch in Laramie County added to the National Register of Historic Places. It had been owned by Mary O'Hara, author of My Friend Flicka. Her husband at the time had raised Remounts for sale to the Army, although the ranch largely raised sheep.
2020 The Legislature convened in a special session to deal with Coronavirus Pandemic emergency funding.
1942 Gas rationing limits US motorist to 3 gallons per week, except for those in critical industries.
1944 It was announced that Italians soldiers brought into the US as POWs would receive technical training at Ft. F. E. Warren. By this time, the Italians were no longer prisoners, as Italy had first surrendered and then declared war on the Axis powers. A fair number of Italian POWs had been brought into the US due to combat in North Africa and Sicily. In Wyoming, Italians were held in at least one location, that being the POW camp at Douglas. They painted the murals there, which still exist in the one surviving building from the POW camp. Attribution: On This Day.
1944 USS Crook County commissioned.
1975 F. E. Warren (D. A. Russell) designated a National Historic Landmark District. Attribution: On This Day.
1978 Significant flooding occured throughout the state resulting in over $15,000,000 in damage in 1978 dollars.
1986 The Jack Creek Guard Station outside of Saratoga added to the National Register of Historic Places.
1990 The Remount Ranch in Laramie County added to the National Register of Historic Places. It had been owned by Mary O'Hara, author of My Friend Flicka. Her husband at the time had raised Remounts for sale to the Army, although the ranch largely raised sheep.
2020 The Legislature convened in a special session to deal with Coronavirus Pandemic emergency funding.
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