1636 The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ordered that the Colony's militia companies be organized into North, South and East Regiments, which is regarded as the birth of the National Guard.
1861 Mary Godat Bellamy, Wyoming's first female legislator, born in Richwoods Missouri. She was elected to the State House in 1910.
1873 Governor Campbell approved an act creating Uinta County to build a courthouse and a jail in Evanston. The courthouse remains in that use today, and is the oldest courthouse in Wyoming that still serves in its original function. Johnson County's 1884 courthouse is the second oldest.
1879 Pease County renamed Johnson County. Attriubiton. On This Day . Com.
1901 Prisoners transferred from Laramie to new penitentiary in Rawlins. Attribution. Wyoming State Historical Society.
1901 Wild Bunch (Hole in the Wall Gang) member Kid Curry killed Knoxville Tennessee policemen William Dinwiddle and Robert Saylor.
1913 Lincoln Highway designated a transcontinental highway, the first to be so designated in the US.
1913 Yoder incorporated. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1916 The Wyoming Tribune for December 13, 1916. Maybe Carranza isn't in a hurry to sign.
Just two days ago Carranza was reported as going to sign the protocol for sure. Now, accurately, he didn't appear to be likely to do so.
Otherwise, the disaster of World War One dominated the headlines along with the disastrous fire in Chugwater.
USS Goshen
1984 Minor league baseball player Armando Casas born in Laramie.
1993 A 3.5 magnitude earthquake occurs 70 miles outside of Laramie. I was living there at the time, but I don't recall this one.
2004 Tom Strook, long time Wyoming legislator, World War Two Marine, Casper oil man, and US Ambassador to Guatemala died.
