1890 Joseph M. Carey elected as the first U.S. Senator for Wyoming. F. E. Warren elected to a second senator for Wyoming. At this time, the Legislator appointed the Senators, rather than the electorate electing them.
Carey was an 1864 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania College of Law, and became U.S. Attorney for the Territory of Wyoming in 1869. He was on the Territorial Supreme Court from 1871 to 1876, when he left that field to become a rancher, founding a significant early ranch in Natrona County Wyoming, the CY. He served as governor from 1890 to 1895, being Wyoming's first state governor, and then again from 1911 to 1915, during which time he supported the Progressive Party campaign for President of Theodore Roosevelt.
1897 An earthquake damaged the Grand Central Hotel in Casper.
1917 Back in the headlines. The Wyoming Tribune for November 14, 1917
Pancho Villa's forces were back in the headlines. . . with combat right on the US border.
A battle significant enough that it was not only pushing the Carranzaistas out of a disputed town. . . it pushed World War One and the Russian Revolution aside a bit as well.
Not that both didn't also show up. Include a hopeful headline that the Bolsheviks were going down in defeat.
1918 And the war ends . . . in Africa. Prosperity means abolishing the eight hour day? Kaiser to be "brot" (the German word for bread . . . or a sandwich) to justice? Wilson taking jars? Eh? November 14, 1918.
As odd as it may seem, it was this day, November 14, 1918, when the Germans surrendered in Africa.
It took that long for news to reach British and German forces in Zambia, where they were still engaged in hostilities up until that time.
1921 World Champion wrestler Jack Taylor of Wyoming lost the title in Boise to a Russian wrestler. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.It took that long for news to reach British and German forces in Zambia, where they were still engaged in hostilities up until that time.
Paul von Lettow Vorbeck, commander of the German forces in Africa who would return to Germany a hero in March 1919 and actually be allowed to lead his returning troops through the Brandenburg Gate in full German African regalia. He went on to be an anti Nazi monarchist right wing politician in the Reichtag and was reduced to poverty during the war and lived, for a time after it, on packages from his former enemies Smuts and Meinertzhagen, although is fortunes recovered before he died in 1964.
The same day was one for sort of odd headlines, or at least oddly spelled headlines, in the Casper newspaper.
Taylor was actually a Canadian, but he was living in Wyoming at the time. He had just been defeated noted wrestler Jack Pasek at the Iris in Casper on October 31 in a three-hour match, so he was on a losing streak.
Taylor had originally hailed from Ontario and would return to Canada in later years, retiring to Edmonton, a city which is interestingly frequently compared to Casper, although for reasons that are unclear to me.
1935 The Crook County News reported Montana man killed by flying sheep, according to the Wyoming Historical Society's daily Wyoming post and calendar. Necessarily, this article requires some explanation, as sheep don't regularly fly.
1969 November 14, 1969. Apollo 12 launched.
It was, of course, a mission to the moon.
Lightening struck the Saturn rocket twice as it was lifting off, taking all three fuel cells offline. Irrespective of that, it flew normally.
1969 November 14, 1969. Apollo 12 launched.
It was, of course, a mission to the moon.
Lightening struck the Saturn rocket twice as it was lifting off, taking all three fuel cells offline. Irrespective of that, it flew normally.
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