Today is Patriot Day
1842 Mexico sent 12,000
troops to capture San Antonio from Texas, which it refused to recognize as an independent nation. Attribution: On This Day.
1890 First election in Wyoming to elect state office holders. Francis E. Warren elected Governor. Attribution: On This Day.
1902 Future Wyoming Governor William Bradford Ross married future Wyoming Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross in Omaha, Nebraska.
1908 Lovell and Kane hit by tornado. Attribution: On This Day.
1916
1916
And in Sheridan too, the Quebec bridge disaster was front page news.
News was traveling fast.
The headline writer for the Sheridan paper had some fun with Greece,
noting that it was "being clubbed into love for Entente Allies", which
is pretty much correct.
The Sheridan paper had a big article on the Punitive Expedition which
noted the American foray into Santa Clara Canyon. General Pershing was
quoted, which he had not been for some time. Quite obviously, in spite
of the type of stalemate that was going on in Mexico, the US Army was
still operating far afield from its supply base, as the article notes.
The Laramie Republican for September 11, 1916
The Quebec bridge disaster was also reported the day it occurred in
Laramie, testament to how quickly news was now able to be reported.
Also in that news was a report of the ongoing failure to capture or corral Pancho Villa.
And the founding of what would become Tie Siding, outside of Laramie, a
tie treatment plant and later a major environmental clean up location,
was also in the news. And the crisis in Greece over World War One made
front page news in the Gem City.
The Wyoming Tribune for September 11, 1916
The bridge disaster in Quebec managed to make the front page the very
day it happened, which is truly remarkable. The big news for Wyoming,
however, was the failure of the Stock Raising Homestead Act to pass to
pass on its first attempt. The act, a modification of the series of
Homestead Acts dating back to the 1860s, was important for those in
Wyoming agriculture and therefore extremely big news. Particularly as
the entire West was in the midst of a homesteading boom at this time.
Something was also going on with a "border patrol", which wouldn't mean
the agency we think of when we hear those terms, as it did not yet
exist.
LOC Caption: Photograph shows the Quebec Bridge across the lower St. Lawrence
River. After a collapse of the original design a second design was
constructed the center span of the second design collapsed as it was
being raised into position on September 11, 1916 killing eighteen
workers. (Source: Flickr Commons project)
1918 I'm sure that would have been an illegal order. . .
but at least one order quite similar to that was in fact issued by the American high command during the war, although it wasn't quite what this notes, but it was quite near it.
And trouble was breaking out in the German ranks. . . .
1988 First snows in Yellowstone National Park began to dampen the huge forest fire going on there since July.
but at least one order quite similar to that was in fact issued by the American high command during the war, although it wasn't quite what this notes, but it was quite near it.
And trouble was breaking out in the German ranks. . . .
1988 First snows in Yellowstone National Park began to dampen the huge forest fire going on there since July.
2001 The United States is attacked by Al Queda terrorist in an airborne assault in which four aircraft are hijacked. Two are crashed into the World Trade Towers in New York City, causing great loss of life. A third is crashed into the Pentagon, whose massive construction absorbed a surprising amount of the damage. Oddly, September 11 was the 60th anniversary of the groundbreaking for the Pentagon. The passengers of the fourth aircraft learned of the terrorist attacks while in flight, overpowered the hijackers, and the plane crashed in the ensuing struggle.
Contrary to some common assumptions, the Al Queda attack was not the first attack on the United States made by the organization. It earlier had attacked the US ship the USS Cole, an American Embassy in Kenya, and had attempted to destroy the World Trade Towers through explosives before. This attacked differed in its scale, and that it caused the United States to regard itself as being at war with the organization, although the organization had been engaged in a campaign against the US dating back to the first Gulf War, during which it's leader, Osama Bin Laden, had become angered over the presence of US forces in the Arabian Peninsula. Al Queda mistakenly believed that the structures were critical to the US economy and that their destruction would cripple it.
The resulting military efforts of the US and its Allies have, as a result, been greatly reduced in effectiveness and its leader, Osama Bin Laden, died in a US strike this past year.
