1777 Congress declared a Thanksgiving Day following the British surrender at Saratoga.
1871 A bill providing for the establishment of Yellowstone National Park was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.
1915 The Capital Avenue Theater in Cheyenne was destroyed by fire. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1929 Former Territorial Governor George Baxter White died in New York City. He held office for only one month.
1933 Joseph C. O'Mahoney appointed U.S. Senator following the death of John B. Kendrick. He would actually take office on January 1, 1934.
1944 The Governor of Oklahoma predicted that Mississippi and Wyoming had the brightest oil related futures in the nation. Attribution. Wyoming State Historical Society.
1944 U.S. Supreme Court upholds the wartime internment of U.S. Citizens of Japanese extraction, which would of course include those interned at Heart Mountain, Wyoming.
1966 Fritiof Fryxell, first Teton Park naturalist, died. Attribution. Wyoming State Historical Society.
1998 A fire Newcastle, WY, destroys four century old buildings. Attribution. On This Day .com.
2008 Gatua wa Mbugwa, a Kenyan, delivers the first dissertation every delivered in Gikuyu, at the University of Wyoming. The topic was in plant sciences.
2014. Nebraska and Oklahoma filed a petition with the United States Supreme Court seeking to have leave to sue Colorado on a Constitutional basis.regarding Colorado's state legalization of marijuana. The basis of their argument is that Colorado's action violates the United States Constitution by ignoring the supremacy nature of Federal provisions banning marijuana.
While an interesting argument, my guess is that this will fail, as the Colorado action, while flying in the face of Federal law, does exist in an atmosphere in which the Federal government has ceased enforcing the law itself.
2019 The United States House of Representatives approved Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump.
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