Today is International Coffee Day.
1857 Nate Champion, made famous due to the Johnson County War, born in Texas.
1879 Dissatisfied Ute Indians killed Agent Nathan Meeker and nine others in the "Meeker Massacre" in Colorado. The dispute had arisen as Meeker was a proponent of cooperative farming, which was a popular position with Indian Agents at the time, and the Utes were upset with his position and rose up against them. As is typical for battles of the period won by Indians, the battle was referred to as a "Massacre", a term less frequently applied to battles lost by Indians. Troops dispatched from Ft. Steele Wyoming had been kept some distance away from the events under a Ute demand that they be allowed to speak with Meeker without their being immediately present, a demand which resulted due to Ute recollections of the Sand Creek Massacre.
1882
Ft. Sanders, south of Laramie, sold at public auction.
1899 Veterans of Foreign Wars established.
1900 The Wild Bunch robbed a Union Pacific train near Tipton.
1917 Electric lights installed in Cokeville businesses.
2008 The Dow Jones industrial average fell a record 777.68 points after
the House defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue plan for the
nation's financial system.
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