April 24

Today is Administrative Professionals Day for 2013.

1800     Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress.

1886  A law proposed to regulate corsets to prevent excessive tightening.  Attribution  Wyoming State Historical Society.

1898  Spain declared war on the United States.

1903  Theodore Roosevelt dedicated a new stone archway at the entrance to Yellowstone National Park. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.

1916   The Casper Daily Press for April 24, 1916.
 

And the train robberies come to an end.

William Carlyle, the robber, gave himself up rather than resort to violence.  Probably more misdirected than anything, he converted to Catholicism while in the penitentiary and became a model citizen.

1943  John Osborne, Wyoming's governor from 1893 to 1895, died.

1944 Jim Geringer born.  Geringer, a mechanical engineer who was also a Wheatland farmer, was Governor from 1995 to 2003.

1973  Inyan Kara added to the National Registry of Historic Places.