45 BC January 1 celebrated as the beginning of the year for the first time under the Julian Calendar. Recognizing January 1 as the beginning of the year would later lapse, but would be reestablished under the Gregorian Calendar.
1622 Papal Chancery adopts January 1 as beginning of the year. A fair number of nations already recognized January 1 as the start of the new year at that time, but it would take over a century for the change to be universal in the Western World.
1861 Stephen W. Downey, later State Auditor of Wyoming, promoted to the rank of 1st Lieutenant in the Potomac Home Brigade, Maryland Infantry. He would be a colonel in 1863, at the time he mustered out of the service.
1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
1863 Daniel Freeman files the first homestead under the newly passed Homestead Act. The homestead was filed in Nebraska.
1868 Susan B. Anthony, leader of the women's suffrage movement, first publishes a weekly journal titled The Revolution.
1870 Carbon County came into existence.
1879 The Laramie Daily Times starts publication in Laramie. Attribution: On This Day .com.
Calendar for 1888.
1888 John C. Garand born in Quebec. Garand was a Federal employee who designed the legendary M1 Garand rifle used by the U.S. Army during World War Two and the Korean War, and which went on to be used by the Wyoming Army National Guard until it was replaced with the M16A1 in the 1970s.
Calendar for 1888.
1892 The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York opened.
Calendar for 1896.
Calendar for 1897.
Calendar for 1898.
Calendar for 1899.
Calendar for 1899.
Calendar for 1906.
Calendar for 1906.
Calendar for 1918
Calendar for 1905.
I've been told, and indeed I've seen the photos, that my father in law's great grandfather worked on hauling material to the Salt Creek fields during their construction. And this by mule team. Photographs of locals hauling equipment from Casper to Salt Creek by mule are really impressive. It's interesting to note that early on, it was mule power, not heavy truck power, that supported the petroleum industry.
The Salt Creek field remains in production today.
1918
1918 newspapers posted on Attrition and Saving the Bacon. The United States and World War One
1919 New Years Day, 1919
The Wyoming State Tribune offered a helpful tip for writing the date of the new year correctly.
1920 1,000 "radicals" arrested in 33 US cities in the Great Raid of the Red Scare.
January 1, 1920. New Year's Day. Revelry and Raids.
And so the violent 1910s had end and 1920, not yet roaring, was ushered in. . .ostensibly dry although efforts were already being made to evade Prohibition, both great and small, as the Chicago Tribune's Gasoline Alley made fun of.
January 1, 1920. Gasoline Alley: Happy New Years On Avery
On this day in Chicago undoubtedly sober agents conducted raids on suspected Reds in various gathering places they were known to frequent, arresting 200 people. The same was conducted across the country under J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, with about 6,000 people being arrested as a result.
U.S. Attorney General Alexander Palmer.
1923 William B. Ross took office as Governor.
1930 Ft. D. A. Russel becomes Ft. Francis E. Warren.
1934 Joseph C. O'Mahoney takes office as a Democratic Senator from Wyoming. O'Mahoney was born in Chelsea Massachusetts in 1884 and entered the newspaper business as a reporter as a young man. He relocated to Boulder, Colorado, in 1908, and then to Cheyenne in 1916, where he became the editor of the Cheyenne State Leader. He apparently tired of that and entered Georgetown Law School from which he graduated in 1920, which would indicate that he only served as an editor in Cheyenne for a year at most. This would make sense, as he was also employed as John B. Kendrick's secretary during this time frame, and he was not doubt working on his law degree concurrently. He replaced Kendrick upon his death. With a brief break, he would be a U.S. Senator until leaving office in 1960.
1935 $6,329,995.57 paid out in benefits to World War One veterans in Wyoming.
1941 Cody business men sent a telegram to President Roosevelt urging him to aid the United Kingdom in its war effort. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1942 The U.S. Office of Production Management prohibited sales of new cars and trucks to civilians.
1944 The 115th Cavalry broken into three separate units. After having been Federalized in 1940 the unit had been used early in the war to patrol the Pacific Coast. It was then heavily cadred out as experienced men were sent to other units. Ultimately, the late war unit, of which a majority were no longer Wyoming National Guardsmen, saw only the Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 115th Cavalry Group sent overseas into action.
1948 The hospital in Rock Springs is transferred from state ownership to Sweetwater County's ownership.
1951 Frank A. Barret took office as Governor.
1959 Wyoming Township Michigan became a city.
1965 The Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge comes into existance. Attribution: On This Day .com.
1968 The University of Wyoming loses to LSU, 13 to 20, in the Sugar Bowl.
1984 The first memorial plaques installed at Grand Encampment Museum. Attribution. Wyoming State Historical Society.
Some thoughts about the Homestead Act, and its 1934 repeal:
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