1889 First municipal election in Newcastle. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1890 First Wyoming State Legislature convened.
1890 The United States government funded a land grant college for Wyoming, which would become the University of Wyoming. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1897 Milward Lee Simpson was born in Jackson. He grew up in Meeteetse and Cody, served as an infantry lieutenant in World War One, and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1925. He served as the 23rd Governor of Wyoming from 1955 to 1959, having been narrowly elected in 1954 and having been defeated for reelection in 1958. He served as U.S. Senator from Wyoming from 1964 to 1967, filling the term of the late Edwin Keith Thomson who died in office. Simpson was one of only six Republican U.S. Senators to vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. One of his sons is long serving U.S. Senator Alan Simpson.
1916: Sunday State Leader for November 12, 1916: Guard to remain Federalized, Villa avoids encounter with Carranza's troops.
The Cheyenne State Leader was wrong. German sailors were not mobilizing to set sail to take on the Allies.
No, not even close.
The Casper Daily Press did better on the first post World War One day of 1918.
Like Cheyenne, there'd been a lot of celebrating the prior day.
That next day, however, those who had been selected to report for military training, i.e., conscripted, still had to go, even if the Selective Service System was immediately ceasing to classify men for additional conscription.
1920 November 12, 1920. First and lasts in sports, and in life events.
November 12, 1920: Man o' War's final run
Read about it at the above, an unfortunately seemingly inactive blog.
On the same day, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was hired as the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, and at the same time the major leagues took on their present organizational form.
This occured, of course, in the wake of the Black Sox Scandal and as part of an effort to address deficiencies in the organization of the sport and clear up its name.
Italy and what would become Yugoslavia entered into the Treaty of Rapallo. The treaty adjusted territorial boundaries between the nations, which had been disputed in the wake of World War One and the creation of the new state. The new South Slav kingdom and Italy shared populations that were of the ethnicities of the other state. While the treaty did leave few Italians in Yugoslavia, about 500,000 South Slavs remained in what became Italian territory.
The border would be readjusted following World War Two.
Former resident of Cheyenne and teenage lover of Charlie Chaplin, actress Mildred Harris, was granted a divorce from Chaplin.
Harris' sad story, as well as her peculiar role in history (she's at least partially responsible for Wallace Simpson meeting King Edward VIII, has been addressed elsewhere on this blog.
President Wilson refused to sign the execution warrant for Sgt. Anthony F. Tamme, who had been convicted of espionage during World War One.
2012 For this year, Veteran's Day observed in the United States so as to make the day a three day holiday.
In spite of having fought wars in recent years, and in spite of there being an ongoing one currently, this day seems to have reduced in significance in recent years. It is a Federal Holiday, but not a day that most people have off. Schools are in session locally. There are (as is the norm here) no parades. Even the Star Tribune, which used to feature Veterans and their stories on this day, has only seen fit to run a single photo page commemorating the day.
2015: Wyoming Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis, in office since January 2009, announced her intent to abstain running for office at the completion of this term. Two Republicans announced they were interested in running, with one expressing a definite intent to do so, by the end of the day.
2018 Veterans Day for 2018, given that November 11 fell on a Sunday.
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