Today In Wyoming's History

1619  August 20, 1619. Slavery comes to British America The date isn't known with precision.  Only that it occurred in August.  B...

1854  Lt. John L. Grattan, 6th U.S. Infantry, and thirty of his men are killed by Sioux Indians at at location on the Oregon Trail not far f...

1813  Battle of the Medina River at which Royalist forces defeat Mexican-American Republican Guetierrez-Magee Expedition south of San Anton...

1869   Major John Wesley Powell's party passed Sentinel Peak overlooking the Grand Canyon.  It had left Green River on May 24. Attributi...

1825  Wyoming's first delegate to Congress, Stephen F. Nuckolls, born in Grayson County, Virginia.  Attribution:  On This Day. 1918   ...

Today is Victory over Japan Day  VJ Day Crowd in  Times Squire, New York City. 1842  John C. Fremont raised the Stars and Stripes...