1877 Arthur Griswold Crane Governor from 1949 to 1951, born in New York. He was the Secretary of State at the time of Lester Hunt's resignation from the Governor's office, and therefore became Governor at that time. Attribution: On This Day.
1903 Cheyenne's first automobile was delivered. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1927 Charles Lindbergh landed the "Spirit of St. Louis" in Cheyenne.
1942 According to the Wyoming State Historical Association, on this day in 1942 official approval was given to commence use of the Casper Air Base, which had been constructed in an incredibly small amount of time. The existing county airport was Wardwell Field, the Casper area's second airport (the first was in what is now Evansville). Today, what was Casper Air Base is the Natrona County International Airport, which actually uses at least one fewer runway than was constructed by the Army in 1942. Wardwell Field's runways, in contrast, are city streets in the Town of Bar Nunn.
