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Jell-O is the official state snack and the
California
seagull is the official state bird.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.C10)
515Mil BC The Burgess Shale, a rock
formation amid the glaciated mountains from British Colum-bia to Utah,
created by mud slides that swept shallow water Cambrian creatures over
a marine cliff and buried them almost instantly. Specimens include:
Pikaia (a chordate, ancestor of fish, reptiles, and mammals),
Odontogriphus, Amiskwia, Ottoia (a Priapulid worm), Wiwaxia (a
Poly-chaete worm or mollusk), Burgessochaeta (an annelid worm),
Opabinia, Sanctacaris (arthro-pod, forerunner of spiders and
scorpions), Canadaspis (arthropod, early crustacean), Aysheaia
(possible arthropod), Eldonia, Hyolith, Brachiopods, Dinomischus,
Anomalocaris, Sponges and Trilobites. In 1989 Stephen Jay Gould
authored "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History."
In 1998 Simon Conway Morris authored "The Crucible of Creation: The
Bur-gess Shale and the Rise of Animals."
(NG, V184, No. 4, Oct. 1993, p.124)(NH, 12/98,
p.48)(SFC, 11/5/07, p.A3)
505Mil BC Scientists in 2007 reported that that
fossils of tiny jellyfish, most barely a quarter inch in diameter, had
been found in the Burgess shale of Utah and dated to this time, when
shallow seas covered the area.
(SFC, 11/5/07, p.A3)
c200 Mil. The 3-toed Eubrontes, a 26-foot plant
eater, and Dilophosaurus, a 20-foot-long meat-eater, fed along a muddy
shoreline in what later became St. George, Utah. Their tracks were
found in 2000.
(SFC, 4/22/00, p.A3)
190Mil BC In 2008 scientists discovered numerous
dinosaur footprints dating to this time at the Vermilion Cliffs
National Monument along the Utah and Arizona state border.
(SFC, 10/22/08, p.A4)
150 Mil BC Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation in Utah
has fossils of Diplodocus. Its 28 m length included a 14 m tail and an
8 m neck. It stood 4 m at its hips. Its vertebrae combined struts and
hollows making it light and strong. The rear feet had three claws and
the front had one. It was a plant-eater and also found near
Thermopolis, Wyo.
(TE-JB, p.66)(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.T1,5)
150Mil BC In 2008 the Bureau of Land Management in
Utah announced a dinosaur find, calling the quarry near Hanksville "a
major dinosaur fossil discovery." An excavation revealed at least four
plant-eating dinosaurs and two carnivorous ones dating back to about
150 million BC.
(AP, 6/17/08)
125 Mil The 12-foot dinosaur named
Falcarius utahensis of this time was discovered in 2005 in south
central Utah near the town of Green River. It was a primitive member of
the therizino-saurs found in fossil bed in China.
(SFC, 5/5/05, p.A2)
c100 Million Dinosaurs native to Asia traveled over
to North America according to fossil evidence in Utah.
(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A2)
98.4 Million BP In 1999 it was reported that
ankylosaur dinosaur (fused lizards) fossils from this time were found
in Utah. Fossils of the nodosaur, a primitive ankylosaur lacking a tail
club, were also found.
(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A2)
98 Million In Utah volcanic ash just above a large
deposit of fossils was dated to this time.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A9)
60 Million The Fossil Butte Member of the Green River
Formation in southwest Wyoming repre-sents the remains of an extinct
tropical lake community that formed about this time and lasted about 20
million years. It included Fossil lake, Lake Uinta, and Lake Goshuite
and covered parts of Wyoming, Utah and Colorado.
(NH, 7/98, p.66)
50-42 Million The Green River Formation rocks are
remnants of an ancient lake that covered more than 25,000 square miles
of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Lake Uinta, Lake Gosiute, and Fos-sil
Lake were deposited in this period. The Green River formation is known
for deposits such as coal and oil shale, and for limestone containing
abundant fish fossils in mass mortality layers. Fossils include the
herring-like Knightia alta, and less frequently, other fish such as
Priscacara, Mioplosus, Phareodus, and Diplomystus. Rare ancestral manta
rays, palm leaves and birds have also been found.
(SFME, 5/7/95, P.5)
40 Million A climate change caused the end of the
large lake system in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah.
(NH, 7/98, p.68)
1 Million BP A Grand Canyon lava dam created a lake
larger than Lake Mead and Lake Powell com-bined. It extended from
Toroweap Canyon back through Lake Powell to beyond Moab, Utah-- a
distance of more than 400 miles.
(NH, 9/97, p.39)
23,000 Lake Bonneville crested and
covered some 20,000 sq. miles over what is now Utah, Ne-vada, and Idaho.
(NH, 9/96, p.62)
12,000BC Lake Lahontan, which spread across northwest
Utah, reached its highest level during the last phase of the last Ice
Age.
(NH, 9/96, p.35)
100-1300 Time period of the Anasazi culture of
northern Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah and Colorado.
(WUD, 1994, p.53)
200-1215 The Fremont people lived in Utah and etched
into rock designs of animals and people.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.T8,9)
500-1315 The Fremont Indians lived in Utah’s Range
Creek Canyon during this period and etched into rock designs of animals
and people.
(WSJ, 1/31/06, p.B6)
900-1100 A Fremont culture settlement in Horse
Canyon, Utah, left extensive ruins that became known as Range Creek.
(SFC, 6/30/04, p.A2)
1300 A drought pervaded the
southwest of North America.
(Sm, 3/06, p.74)
1350 The Fremont Indians, who had
lived in Utah’s Range Creek Canyon since about 200, disappeared from
the archeological record.
(WSJ, 1/31/06, p.B6)(Sm, 3/06, p.74)
1801 Jun 1, Mormon leader Brigham
Young (d.1877), the second president of the Mormon Church, was born in
Whitingham, Vt.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1805 Dec 23, Joseph Smith
(d.1844), founder of the Mormon Church, was born in Sharon, Vermont.
[see 1823,1830]
(SFC, 4/9/96, A-7)(HN, 12/23/98)(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1820 Joseph Smith claimed that God
and Christ appeared to him in Palmyra, NY, and told him not to join any
existing church but to prepare for an important task.
(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1823 Sep 21, The Angel Moroni 1st
appeared to Joseph Smith, according to Smith (founder of Mormon
Church). Smith in New York claimed that an angel named Moroni led him
to ancient golden plates that revealed the untold story of America
during biblical times.
(SFC, 4/8/96, p.A1,6)(MC, 9/21/01)
1826 Aug
22, Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith moved near Salt Lake Utah.
(http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-112/summary/index.asp)
1826 Nov 27, Jedediah Smith’s
expedition reached San Diego, becoming the first Americans to cross the
south-western part of the continent. He crossed the Mohave Desert and
the San Bernadino Mountains from Utah.
(HN, 11/27/98)(SFEC, 12/5/99, p.T5)
1827 Joseph Smith received his
tablets on Mount Cumorah near Palmyra, NY.
(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1829 May 15, Joseph Smith was
"ordained" by John the Baptist- according to Joseph Smith. Mormon
church was founded in NY.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1830 Apr 6, The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized by Joseph Smith and five
others in Fayette, Seneca County, N.Y. Joseph Smith published the “Book
of Mormon” in Palmyra, New York. He claimed that the manuscript was
based on ancient golden plates re-vealed to him by the angel Moroni and
written in the language of the Egyptians. The book re-cords the journey
of an ancient Israelite prophet, Lehi, and his family to the American
continent some 2,000 years ago. [see 1827, 1831]
(SFC, 4/9/96, A-7)(NH, 10/96, p.19)(AP, 4/6/97)(HN,
4/6/98)
1831 Early followers of Joseph
Smith merged with a communal Christian sect and relocated to Kirkland,
Ohio. [see 1838]
(SFC, 4/9/96, A-7)
1832 Mar 24, Mormon founder,
martyr Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio.
(MC, 3/24/02)
1836 Mar 27, The first Mormon
temple was dedicated, in Kirtland, Ohio.
(AP, 3/27/97)(HN, 3/27/98)(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1837 Conflicts broke up the Mormon
communities in Missouri and Ohio.
(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1838 Oct 31, A mob of about 200
attacked a Mormon camp in Missouri, killing 20 men, women and children.
In the massacre at Haun’s Mill in western Missouri 17 Mormon settlers
were killed. Joseph Smith was arrested and the Mormons were driver from
the state.
(HN, 10/31/98)(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1838 Nov 13, Joseph F. Smith, 6th
president of Mormon church, was born.
(MC, 11/13/01)
1838 Amid rising debts and rumors
of polygamy, the Mormons moved from Ohio to Far West, Mo., where they
clashed violently with other settlers. [see 1839]
(SFC, 4/9/96, A-7)
1839 Joseph Smith escaped from a
Missouri prison and the Mormons left Far West, Mo., and started buying
land for a new settlement in Nauvoo, Ill. [see1844]
(SFC, 4/9/96, A-7)(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1840 May 10, Mormon leader Joseph
Smith moved his band of followers to Illinois to escape the hostilities
they experienced in Missouri.
(HN, 5/10/99)
1841 Apr 6, Cornerstone was laid
for 2nd Mormon temple at Nauvoo, Missouri.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1841-1846 The Mormon Temple at Nauvoo, Ill., was
built.
(SFEC, 8/29/99, p.T3)
1843 Jul 12, Mormon leader Joseph
Smith said God encourages polygamy.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1844 Jun 27, Mormon Joseph Smith
(38) and his brother, Hyram, were again imprisoned. A mob stormed the
Carthage, Ill. prison and the brothers were killed. [see 1846] James
Strang laid claim to being his rightful successor but Brigham Young
soon took control of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Strang then began evangelizing in the Midwest and East with some
success. His followers were later called "Strangites."
(Smith., Aug. 1995, p.86)(SFC, 4/9/96, A-7)(AP,
6/27/97)
1844 Aug 8, Brigham Young was
chosen to head the Mormon church following the killing of Joseph Smith
in Illinois.
(AP, 8/8/97)(HN, 8/8/98)
1845 An account of the murder of
Joseph Smith, Mormon leader, was published at Nauvoo, Ill., by an
eye-witness named William M. Daniels.
(LSA., Fall 1995, p.18)
1846 Feb 4, Brigham Young, Joseph
Smith’s successor, led the Mormons overland from Nauvoo, Ill., to the
Great Salt Lake Valley. Mormon pioneer Sam Brannon gathered some 250
Mormons aboard the ship, Brooklyn, and sailed from New York to San
Francisco. [see 1847]
(SFC, 4/9/96, A-7)(SFEC, 7/21/96, DB p.29)
1846 Feb 10, Members of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormons, be-gan an exodus to
the west from Illinois.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1846 Jul 21, Mormons founded the
1st English settlement in the San Joaquin Valley of Calif.
(MC, 7/21/02)
1847 Jul 24, Mormon leader Brigham
Young and some 17,000 followers, the first members of Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), arrived in the valley of the
Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.
(AP, 7/24/97)(HN, 7/24/98)(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1847 The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
was founded in Utah. In 2003 the 360-member group received a National
Medal for the Humanities.
(SFC, 11/14/03, p.I10)
1847 Brigham Young, leading a
group of about 140 Mormons, founded Salt Lake City. Known as Great Salt
Lake City until 1868, the city went on to become the territorial, and
later state, capital of Utah. Young designed the city to match Mormon
founder Joseph Smith‘s plans for the city of Zion. Salt Lake City
quickly became a destination for Mormon immigrants from Europe and the
eastern United States.
(HNQ, 1/7/01)
1848 May 30, Mexico ratified the
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo giving US: New Mexico, Cali-fornia and
parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million.
(MC, 5/30/02)
1848 Seagulls save the crops of
early settlers from a horde of crickets. The California seagull was
later made the state bird.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.C10)
1849 A party from Kansas, headed
for the California Gold Rush, called themselves the Jay-hawkers.
Another party from Missouri named themselves the Bugsmashers. Both
groups left Salt Lake to late to cross the Sierra and took the southern
route. The stumbled into the Death Valley region around Christmas.
(SFC, 1/28/99, p.A15)
1850 Sep 9, Territories of New
Mexico & Utah created.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1850 Sep 29, Pres. Millard
Fillmore named Mormon leader Brigham Young as the first gover-nor of
the Utah Territory.
(HN, 9/29/98)(SFC, 10/23/02, p.H4)
1850 The Mormons applied
unsuccessfully for Utah statehood. Debates with the federal gov-ernment
ensued over political issues and polygamy.
(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1850s Mormon settlers began
arriving on Hawaii. Church members sent money to buy up all the
property on Lanai. William Gibson registered the land under his own
name and refused to hand the deeds over to the Mormon Church. Gibson
went on to become a friend, advisor and cabinet minister to King
Kalakaua.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.T10)
1852-1892 The Salt Lake Temple on Temple Square in
Salt lake City was constructed over this pe-riod.
(THM, 4/27/97, p.N2)
1853 Oct 26, R.H. Kern, American
artist, was killed by Indians in Utah.
(SSFC, 4/10/05, p.F9)
1853 John C. Fremont began his 5th
expedition west, his 2nd into the Colorado Mountains, and traveled
across Kansas, southern Colorado and Utah in search of a railroad route
over the Central Rockies. The group reached Mormon settlements in Utah.
Fremont brought along pho-tographer Solomon Nunes Carvalho, who took
hundreds of daguerreotypes. Many of the im-ages were lost in an 1881
NYC warehouse fire. In 1994 Robert Shlaer set out to recreate the
images and in 2000 published "Sights Once Seen: Daguerreotyping
Fremont’s Last Expedition Through the Rockies."
(SFEC, 7/9/00, BR p.12)(ON, 12/06, p.7)
1856 Oct, Migrants to Utah pulling
handcarts encountered a blizzard and were rescued by a mule train sent
by Brigham Young. More than 200 Mormons died near Martin’s Cove, Wyo.,
as they migrated West using handcarts.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_handcart_pioneers)(SFC, 8/13/98,
p.A9)(Econ, 12/22/07, p.39) 1856
Oct, Migrants to Utah pulling handcarts encountered a blizzard and were
rescued by a mule train sent by Brigham Young. More than 200 Mormons
died near Martin’s Cove, Wyo., as they migrated West using handcarts.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_handcart_pioneers)(SFC, 8/13/98,
p.A9)(Econ, 12/22/07, p.39)
1857 Sep 11, The Mountain Meadows
Massacre of the Fancher emigrant wagon train in Utah Territory was
carried out by Mormons fearful of an impending invasion by the US Army.
Church patriarch and adopted son of Brigham Young, John Doyle Lee,
offered safe passage to the nearly 150 men, women and children on the
Fancher train from Arkansas crossing Mormon Utah bound for California,
if they left their weapons, livestock and wagons behind-ostensibly to
appease hostile Indians. Once unarmed, all but the youngest children
were slaughtered. Lee, who first blamed the massacre on Paiute Indians,
was excommunicated in 1970 and tried, con-victed and executed in 1877
for his role in the killings. 120 settlers were killed; 17 children,
all under 7, were spared. In 2002 Will Bagley authored “Blood of the
Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows.”
(HNQ, 9/14/99)(SFC, 10/23/02, p.H4)(AP, 9/11/07)
1857 Sep 15, Mormon leader Brigham
Young called out the Nauvoo Legion to fight the U.S. Troops if they
enter Utah Territory.
(http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Utah_War)
1858 Apr 6, President Buchanan
issued a proclamation declaring Mormons in the Utah Terri-tory to be in
a state of rebellion against the US government.
(AP, 4/6/08)
1858 Jun, The US Army entered Utah
and installed a new governor.
(SFC, 10/23/02, p.H4)
1861 Mar 2, US Congress created
the Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah
territories
(SC, 3/2/02)
1862 Jul 1, The US Congress
outlawed polygamy for the 1st time. The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act, signed
by Pres. Lincoln, made polygamy illegal in American territories. It led
to the prose-cution of over 1300 Mormons. It also granted large tracts
of public land to the states with the di-rective to sell for the
support of institutions teaching the mechanical and agricultural arts.
It also obligated state male university students to military training.
The education initiative resulted in 68 land-grant colleges.
(SFEM, 6/28/98, p.39)(SFEM, 1/30/00, p.8,14)(HNQ,
10/6/02)(MC, 7/1/02)
1866 Apr 6, Butch Cassidy, [Robert
Parker], US desperado (Wild Bunch Passage), was born. [see Apr 13,15]
(HN, 4/6/98)(MC, 4/6/02)
1866 Apr 13, Butch Cassidy [Robert
LeRoy Parker], American western outlaw and leader of the Wild Bunch,
was born in Beaver, Utah. [see Apr 6,15]
(HN, 4/13/99)
1866 Apr 15, Robert LeRoy Parker,
a.k.a. "Butch Cassidy," was born in Beaver, Utah. [see Apr 6,13]
(MesWP)
1867 The Tabernacle, home of the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir, was completed in Salt Lake City, Utah.
(THM, 4/27/97, p.N2)
1868 Apr 6, Brigham Young married
his 27th and final wife (I am done with wifery).
(MC, 4/6/02)
1869 May 6, A special Southern
Pacific train left Sacramento bound for Utah to drive the final spike
connecting the SP to the Union Pacific on May 8. The UP train did not
arrive until May 10.
(WSJ, 8/25/00, p.W10)
1869 May 10, In the desert near
Promontory, Utah, railway official Leland Stanford, drove down a golden
spike to unite the tracks from the east and the west. The first
transcontinental railroad was completed when the Union Pacific
Railroad--building west from Omaha, Nebraska--and the Central
Pacific--building east from Sacramento, California--met at Promontory
Point, Utah. Recognizing that transportation was essential to the
economic development of the nation, the U.S. Congress passed
legislation in 1862 that provided for the construction of a railroad
linking the east and west coasts. A depression followed the completion
of the railroad and the Chinese became a target of ill-will as
unemployment soared. Engine 350 was the first one down the Union
Pacific line and commemorative platters were made for the occasion. In
1999 David Howard Bain published "Empire Express: Building the First
Transcontinental Railroad." In 2000 Stephen E. Ambrose authored
"Nothing Like It in the World, The Men Who Built the Transcon-tinental
Railroad 1863-1869." In 2007 Richard Rayner authored “The Associates:
Four Capital-ists Who Created California.
(SFC, 7/8/96, p.D2)(SFC,1/22/97, Z1 p.7)(HN,
5/11/99)(WSJ, 11/4/99, p.A28)(WSJ, 8/25/00, p.W10)(SSFC, 12/17/00, BR
p.10)(SSFC, 1/20/08, p.M1)
1870 Feb 12, Women in the Utah
Territory gained the right to vote. However, that right was taken away
in 1887.
(AP, 2/12/07)
1871 Oct 2, Mormon leader Brigham
Young, 70, was arrested for polygamy. He was later convicted, but the
U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1871 In Utah the Mormon temple in
St. George was completed. This was the 3rd Mormon temple to be built in
the US and the first one in Utah.
(WSJ, 5/12/07, p.R10)
1871 The Salt Lake Tribune was
founded by dissident Mormons.
(WSJ, 10/6/00, p.A1)
1873 Jan, Ann Eliza Young
(b.1844), one of the many wives of Mormon leader Brigham Young,
revolted against the indignities and hypocrisy of polygamy. Her divorce
was granted in January, 1875.
(SFC, 8/12/08,
p.E5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Eliza_Young)
1873 Aug 18, Otto Harbach,
songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes), was born in, SLC, Utah.
(MC, 8/18/02)
1873-1874 Carleton Watkins photographed Weber Canyon.
(WSJ, 8/20/99, p.A16)
1875 In the early autumn Brigham
Young sent Daniel W. Jones and five elders on horseback to Mexico.
During the 3,000-mile trip, the missionaries stopped frequently in New
Mexico and Arizona, preaching the gospel and converting Indians. Jones
and his team arrived in Franklin, Texas, (El Paso) in 1876, crossing
through present-day Juarez. They were warmly welcomed by Mexican
officials.
(www.epcc.edu/nwlibrary/borderlands/19_mormons.htm)
1877 Aug 29, Brigham Young (76),
the second president of the Mormon Church, died in Salt Lake City,
Utah.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1877 John Doyle Lee, Church
patriarch and adopted son of Brigham Young, was executed for his
role in the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre of the Fancher emigrant
wagon train in Utah Territory. The 2002 novel “Red Water” by Judith
Freeman told the story and set the exe-cution in 1887.
(HN, 9/11/98)(HNQ, 9/14/99)(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.M1)
1879 Mar 17, The US Supreme Court
in Wilkerson v. Utah ruled that Utah could use a firing squad for
capital punishment.
(http://supreme.justia.com/us/99/130/case.html)
1879 May 16, Wallace Wilkerson was
executed by firing squad in Utah. It was so disgraceful that one
newspaper, the Ogden Junction, sarcastically reminded the state that
"the French guil-lotine never fails." It was 27 minutes before he could
be pronounced dead.
(http://historytogo.utah.gov/salt_lake_tribune/in_another_time/012896.html)
1880 David King Udall (1851-1938),
while living in Nephi, Utah, was called to be the Mormon bishop in St.
Johns, Arizona, a small and primarily Hispanic Catholic community.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_King_Udall)
1882 Mar 22, US Congress outlawed
polygamy. The Edmunds-Tucker Act was adopted by the US to suppress
polygamy in the territories. [see Morrill Act 1862]
(AP, 3/22/97)(SFEM, 6/28/98, p.39)
1885 May 15, Mormons began an
exodus from the United States into Mexico. Chihuahua Governor Ochoa had
agreed to sell land to the Mormons to colonize. Church President John
Taylor had explored the area and church officials selected Casas
Grandes, a valley in the state of Chihuahua, as the place to begin
settlement.
(www.epcc.edu/nwlibrary/borderlands/19_mormons.htm)
1886 Assembly Hall, a gothic-style
building built by the Latter-day Saint pioneers, was com-pleted in Salt
Lake City.
(THM, 4/27/97, p.N3)
1887 Feb 19, The 49th US Congress
passed the Edmunds-Tucker Act. It abolished women's suffrage, forced
wives to testify against their husbands, disincorporated the LDS
Church, dis-mantled the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, abolished
the Nauvoo Legion, and provided that LDS Church property in excess of
$50,000 would be forfeited to the United States.
(http://somemormonstuff.blogspot.com/2007/02/edmunds-tucker-act-chap.html)
1889 The Khan Mansion was built in
SLC.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.C11)
1890 May 6, Mormon Church
renounced polygamy. [see Sep 24]
(MC, 5/6/02)
1890 Sep 25, Wilford Woodruff,
president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, issued a
Manifesto formally renouncing the practice of polygamy. The Mormons
renounced the practice of polygamy after six decades in exchange for
statehood for Utah. Smith’s revelation that God authorized polygamy
remained in Article 132 of the church’s Doctrine and Covenants.
(SFC, 8/6/98, p.A11)(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)(SSFC,
2/25/07, p.A4)(AP, 9/25/07)
1893 Jan 4, US president Cleveland
granted amnesty to Mormon polygamists.
(MC, 1/4/02)
1893 Apr 6, Mormon Temple in Salt
Lake City was dedicated.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1895 Mar 28, Spencer W. Kimball,
12th Prophet of the Mormon Church, was born.
(HN, 3/28/98)
1896 Jan 4, Utah was
admitted to the Union as the 45th state.
(AP, 1/4/98)
1900 Jan 25, the US 56th Congress
refused to seat Brigham H. Roberts, Mormon Democrat from Utah, because
of his polygamy.
(AH, 2/05, p.16)
1906 Aug 19, Philo T. Farnsworth
(d.1971), inventor (electronic TV), was born in Beaver County, Utah.
(http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfarnsworth.htm)
1907 Jul 8, George W. Romney,
later governor of Michigan, was born into a Mormon family in Chihuahua,
Mexico. He later was a candidate for the Republican presidential
nomination until he admitted that he had been "brainwashed" by the
military on the Vietnam War.
(HN, 7/8/98)(SSFC, 2/25/07, p.A4)(SSFC, 2/25/07,
p.A4)
1909 Earl Douglass discovered
dinosaur bones in eastern Utah.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.T8)
1910 Senator William Curry built
his Curry Manor in Vernal.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.T9)
1911 Sep 23, Frank Moss (d.2003),
liberal Utah Democratic Senator (1958-1976), was born in Salt Lake City.
(SFC, 2/3/03, p.B4)
1913 Loretta Young (d.2000), film
actress, was born in Salt Lake City as Gretchen Michaela Young.
(SFEC, 8/13/00, p.B10)
1915 Oct 4, Dinosaur National
Monument in Colorado and Utah was established. Pres. Woodrow Wilson
established Dinosaur National Monument in Jensen, Utah.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.T8)(MC, 10/4/01)
1915 Nov 19, Joe Hill, Labor
leader and songwriter, was executed for murder. Joe Hill (Jo-seph
Hillstrom) was executed after being convicted of killing two men in a
holdup in Salt Lake City in 1914. He claimed the charges against him
were trumped up and won worldwide support, including that of President
Woodrow Wilson. Nevertheless, Hill was tried, convicted and exe-cuted
by firing squad. Hill, born Joel Haggelund in Sweden in 1879, went to
the United States in 1902 and soon joined the revolutionary Industrial
Workers of the World (the Wobblies).
(HNQ, 10/25/99)(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.A21)(MC, 11/19/01)
1920 Oct 13, Laraine Day (d.2007),
film actress, was born in Roosevelt, Utah. Her work in-cluded over 4
dozen films from the late 1930s to 1960.
(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
1921-1924 Charles Rendell Mabey served as governor.
(SFC, 9/25/99, p.A21)
1922 The Colorado River Compact
allocated 7.5 million acre-feet of water from the upper ba-sin states
(Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico) to be delivered to the lower
basin sates (California, Arizona and Nevada) plus the rights to divert
another 1 million acre-feet from the river’s lower tributaries.
(SFEC, 8/24/97, p.A10)(SFCM, 7/17/05, p.6)
1924 Mar 8, Coal mine explosion
killed 171 at Castle Gate, Utah.
(MC, 3/8/02)
1926 Feb 17, An avalanche buried
75 in Sap Gulch, Bingham, Utah, and 40 died.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1928 The Bear River Migratory Bird
Refuge, a 74,000 acre National Wildlife Refuge in Utah, was established.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_River_Migratory_Bird_Refuge)
1930 Jun 17, Pres. Hoover signed
the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill, placing the highest tariff on imports to
the U.S. It was sponsored by Willis Hawley, a congressman from Oregon,
and Reed Smoot, a senator from Utah. An international trade war began
with the US passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. Foreign countries
retaliated. Many economists blame Smoot-Hawley for deepening the
depression. It reflected the "Protectionism" of the times.
(WSJ, 7/1/96, p.A11)(HN, 6/17/98)(WSJ, 1/11/99,
p.R50)(WSJ, 2/3/04, p.A12)
1930 Jul 7, Construction began on
Boulder Dam on the Colorado River. It is now known as Hoover Dam. Paul
Wattis was an executive with Utah Construction and Mining, a family
busi-ness that built the Boulder Dam. Bechtel was one of 6 companies
that built the dam.
(AP, 7/7/97)(SFEC,11/30/97, p.C13)(SFC, 1/16/98,
p.E2)
1933 Apr 7, “Near beer” (3.2 beer)
became legal after FDR signed an amendment to the Vol-stead Act, which
had made drinking alcohol a federal crime. Prohibition ended when Utah
be-came the 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment. [see Dec 5]
(SFC, 4/7/96, p.B-11)(HN, 4/7/97)(MC, 4/7/02)
1933 Dec 5, Prohibition was
repealed--much to the delight of thirsty revelers--when Utah be-came
the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The nationwide pro-hibition of the manufacture, sale or transportation
of alcoholic beverages was established in January 1919 with passage of
the 18th Amendment. Prohibition's supporters gradually became
disenchanted with it as the illegal manufacture and sale of liquor
fostered a wave of criminal ac-tivity. By 1932, the Democratic Party's
platform called for the repeal of Prohibition. In February 1933,
Congress adopted a resolution proposing the 21st Amendment to repeal
the 18th and with Utah's vote in December, Prohibition ended.
Three-quarters of the states approved the re-peal of the 18th amendment
and FDR proclaimed the end of Prohibition.
(SFC, 4/7/96, p.B-11)(AP, 12/5/97)(HNPD, 12/5/98)
1934 Mar 22, Orrin Hatch, U.S.
senator from Utah, was born.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1935 Sep 3, Sir Malcolm Campbell
became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 MPH. Campbell
drove the Bluebird Special on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah at a
speed of 304.331 MPH.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1936-1947 J. Bracken Lee (1899-1996) was the mayor of
Price, his hometown.
(SFC, 10/22/96, p.A18)
1937 Alta ski resort near Salt
Lake City opened with a rope tow as the 2nd US ski resort. It was
designed by Alf Engen (d.1997), ski-jump champion.
(SFC, 7/22/97, p.A16)
1942 Sep, Japanese detainees from
the California assembly center at Tanforan race track began their
transfer to Abraham, Utah, 140 miles south of SLC.
(Ind, 2/2/02, 5A)
1942-1945 Dave Tatsuno (1914-2006) shot a home video,
later named "Topaz," in the Topaz Relo-cation Center in the central
Utah desert. In 1997 it was placed on the National Film Registry,
becoming the second home movie added to the list.
(SFC, 2/14/06,
p.B7)(www.scu.edu/diversity/tatsuno.html)
1944 Jun, Members of the Special
Operations Division from Maryland’s Fort Detrick biological weapons
program conducted tests at Granite Peak, a 250-square-mile area near
the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.
(AH, 6/03, p.49)
1946 Feb 4, The first Mormons left
Nauvoo, Ill., and crossed the Mississippi River heading toward Utah.
(AH, 2/06, p.14)
1946 Mine Okubo authored “Citizen
13660,” an illustrated account of her experiences at Japanese
internment camps in California and Utah.
(SFC, 2/26/01, p.A24)
1946 A dissenting Mormon sect from
Utah set up a community practicing polygamy in Bounti-ful, BC, Canada.
In 2009 2 leaders of the Bountiful commune appeared in court to answer
criminal charges.
(Econ, 1/24/09, p.44)
1947 The Mormon church membership
grew to 1 million.
(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1948 May 29, Anthony Geary, actor
(Luke/Bill-General Hospital), was born in Coalville, UT.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1949-1957 J. Bracken Lee (1899-1996) governed Utah.
(SFC, 10/22/96, p.A18)
1951 Willam Christensen (d.2001 at
99), master of the SF Opera Ballet, returned to Utah and founded
the 1st ballet department in an American Univ. at the Univ. of Utah.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B2)
1952 The Salt Lake Tribune entered
a joint operating agreement with the Mormon run De-seret News.
(WSJ, 10/6/00, p.A1)
1956 Phyllis, the 92-year-old
great-granddaughter of Brigham Young, and Paul Lyman Wattis (d.1971),
of Utah Construction and Mining, established a philanthropic foundation
to spread their wealth.
(SFEC, 1/18/98, p.D7)
1958 Jul 11, Monument Valley,
straddling the Arizona-Utah border, became the 1st Navajo Tribal Park.
(SSFC, 10/6/02, p.C15)
1958 Frank Moss (1911-2003),
liberal Utah Democratic was elected US Senator (1958-1976). He served
until 1976 when he was defeated by Orrin Hatch.
(SFC, 2/3/03, p.B4)
c1960 The Tooele Army Depot
decided to dispose of its old munitions by blowing them up every spring
and summer. In an uncritical climate Magcorp magnesium refinery set up
shop nearby and split magnesium chloride extracted from the Great Salt
Lake. A hazardous waste zone, incinerators and landfills followed. In
1999 Chip Ward authored "Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the
West."
(SFEC, 1/9/00, BR p.4)
1960-1972 J. Bracken Lee (1899-1996) was the mayor of
Salt Lake City.
(SFC, 10/22/96, p.A18)
1962-1973 In Utah the Deseret Test Center conducted
46 chemical warfare exercises at Fort Doug-las.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A3)
1968 Open air testing of chemical
weapons at the US Army Dugway Proving Grounds in the Utah desert caused
the deaths of some 3,600 [6,400] sheep in an adjacent valley.
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.A18)(WSJ, 6/1/98, p.A1)
1969 Robert Redford bought 6000
acres in Utah’s Provo Canyon with the idea of establishing a community
devoted to art and nature.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, Par p.2)
1970 Robert Smithson (1938-1973),
American minimalist land artist, created his “Spiral Jetty,” a 1,500
foot coil of rock extending from the shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake.
(WSJ, 10/29/05,
p.P16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smithson)
1971 Mar 11, Philo T. Farnsworth
(b.1906), inventor of television, died in Salt Lake City, Utah. Later
Prof. Donald Godfrey authored "Philo T. Farnsworth: The Father of
Television" and Evan I. Schwartz authored "The Last Lone Inventor."
(SFC, 9/7/02,
p.D1)(www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/farnsworth.cfm)
1972 Apr 7, Richard McCoy
(1942-1974), Vietnam veteran and pilot, hijacked a United Air Lines jet
and extorted $500,000 in copycat version of the DB Cooper crime. He
parachuted into a Utah desert, but was caught with the money in his
house and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. He escaped and died in a
shootout with FBI agent Nicholas O’Hara in Nov, 1974.
{Hijacking, USA, USA, FBI}
(SFEC, 11/17/96, Z1
p.5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_McCoy,_Jr.)
1972 Aug 10, An Earth-grazing
meteoroid grazed the atmosphere above Canada. It entered the Earth's
atmosphere in daylight over Utah.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Daylight_1972_Fireball)
1972 S. George Ellsworth (d.1997),
historian, published “Utah Heritage,” a 7th grade textbook
history of the state. It was updated in 1994.
(SFC,12/26/97, p.B6)
1972-1988 The Great Salt Lake of Utah roughly doubled
in size over this period.
(NH, 9/97, p.16)
1974 Aug 29, Moses Malone became
the first basketball player to go straight from high school to the pros
when he joined the Utah Stars.
(SFC, 7/7/96, Z1 p.5)
1974 Oct 2, Nancy Wilcox, believed
to have been a victim of the serial killer Ted Bundy (d.1989),
disappeared in Salt Lake City, Utah.
(www.charleyproject.org/cases/w/wilcox_nancy.html)
1974 Oct 31, Suspected Bundy
victim Laura Aime disappeared in Utah.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy)
1974 Nov 8, Debi Kent
disappeared in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was later identified as
an-other victim of Theodore “Ted” Bundy (1946-1989), the Green River
Murderer, who would be of-ficially convicted of killing 36 women and
executed on January 24, 1989, in Florida.
(www.crimelibrary.com/bundy/attack.htm)
1975 Jul 4, Nancy Baird (23), a
Bundy victim, disappeared from a convenience store where she worked in
Layton, Utah.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy)
1975 Claude Rex Nowell
(1944-2008), founded his Church of Summum in Utah and changed his name
to Summum Bonum Amen Ra following an alleged visit by extraterrestrial
beings.
(WSJ, 11/13/08,
p.A14)(www.summum.us/about/corkybio.shtml)
1976 Nov 2, In Utah Orrin Hatch
defeated 18-year incumbent Senator Frank Moss.
(SFC, 2/3/03, p.B4)
1976 Nov 10, The Utah Supreme
Court gave the go-ahead for convicted murderer Gary Gil-more to be
executed, according to his wishes. The sentence was carried out the
following January.
(AP, 11/10/97)
1976 Allan Howe (d.2000) lost his
re-election bid to the Congress following a conviction for soliciting
sex in Salt Lake City.
(SFC, 12/19/00, p.B5)
1976 The US Congress asked the
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to find land that might qualify for
wilderness protection. It found 3.2 million eligible acres in Utah.
(Econ, 8/23/03, p.26)
1976 Utah Int’l. Inc., under
Edmund Littlefield, merged with General Electric in a $2.2 billion
deal, the largest to date. The Utah company had built the Hoover Dam.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D6)(SFC, 10/4/06, p.A15)
1977 Jan 17, Gary Gilmore (36),
convicted in the double murder of an elderly couple, was shot by a
firing squad at Utah State Prison in the first US execution in a
decade. In 1979 Nor-man Mailer authored his Pulitzer Prize winning
book: “The Executioner’s Song,” the story of Gary Gilmore.
(AP, 1/17/98)(Econ, 11/17/07, p.103)
1978 Jun 8, Leaders of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy
of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood. Prophet Spencer
Kimball opened the Mormon priesthood to blacks.
(www.signaturebookslibrary.org/neither/neitherappx.htm)
1978 Jun 11, Joseph Freeman Jr.
became the 1st black priest in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints.
(www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1979/4/1979_4_110.shtml)
1978 Jun 23, Joseph Freeman Jr.,
the 1st black priest in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,
went in the Salt Lake Temple with his wife and 5 sons for sacred
ordinances.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_(LDS))
1978 Jul 23, Franklin Bradshow was
killed in SLC, Utah. His daughter, Frances B. Schreuder (d.2004), had
persuaded her son to kill her wealthy father due to "his stinginess."
Schreuder was convicted in 1983.
(SFC, 4/3/04, p.B6)
1979 Jan 23, The USAF's 388th
Tactical Fighter Wing at Hill AFB, Utah, became the first unit anywhere
to receive the F-16 Fighting Falcon. Lockheed Corp. produced the F-16
fighter jet. It became the first production military aircraft to
incorporate a fly-by-wire control system.
(WSJ, 3/22/96, p.A-1)(NPub, 2002,
p.23)(www.f-16.net/timeline_1979.html)
1979 Dec 5, Feminist Sonia Johnson
was formally excommunicated by the Mormon Church because of her
outspoken support for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the
Constitu-tion.
(AP, 12/5/99)
1980 Mar 30, The Mormon Church
celebrated its 150th anniversary in Salt Lake City, Utah.
(HN, 3/30/98)
1980 Jun 20, Lake Powell,
straddling the Arizona-Utah border behind the Glen Canyon Dam,
completed its fill, which began in 1963
(SFEC, 8/24/97,
p.A1)(www.lakepowell.com/travel/glen-canyon-dam.cfm)
1980 Robert Redford established
the Sundance Resort and Institute in Provo Canyon to sup-port
independent filmmaking and playwriting.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, Par p.2)
1981 Mar 4, A jury in Salt Lake
City convicted Joseph Paul Franklin, an avowed racist, of vio-lating
the civil rights of two black men who were shot to death.
(AP, 3/4/01)
1981 Oct 8, An explosive device at
the Univ. of Utah was defused. It was later attributed to the Unabomber
Theodore Kaczynski.
(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1 p.4)
1981 Robert Redford founded a Film
Festival in Sundance, Utah. In 1985 the festival moved to Park City,
Utah. In 1991 it was named the Sundance Film Festival.
(www.cffvf.org/sundance-film-festival.html)
1982 May 3, Sinbad the Sailor, the
star horse of Ronald Reagan’s “Death Valley Days” TV series, died when
he was struck by lightning at Kanab, Utah.
(SSFC, 5/3/09, p.C12)
1982 Dec 2, In the first operation
of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted
a permanent artificial heart developed by Dr. Robert K. Jarvik. Barney
Clark, a retired dentist, lived 112 days with the Jarvic-7 heart.
(AP, 12/2/97)(HN, 12/2/98)
1983 In Utah rising floodwaters
impacted the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. In 1991 Terry Tempest
Williams authored "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place."
(SSFC, 12/2/01,
p.M3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_River_Migratory_Bird_Refuge)
1984 Jul 24, In American Fort,
Utah, Ron and Dan Lafferty stabbed to death their sister-in-law, Brenda
Lafferty, and her daughter Erica, aged 15 months. In 2003 Jon Krakauer
authored "Under the Banner of Heaven," an account of the murder and the
Mormon background of the Laffertys.
(WSJ, 7/11/03, p.W15)
1984 Dec 19, Near
Orangeville, Utah, 27 miners died in a coal mine fire due to a faulty
air compressor at the Wilberg Mine.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A14)(AP, 12/19/04)
1984 The 200-acre Best Friends
Animal Sanctuary was located to Angel Canyon in Southern Utah. It was
the largest no-kill animal shelter in the country.
(SFEM, 6/6/99, p.6)
1985 Nov 5, Spencer W. Kimball,
president of the Mormon Church, died at age 90; he was succeeded by
Ezra Taft Benson.
(AP, 11/5/05)
1987 Feb 20, The Unabomber placed
a bomb in a parking lot behind CAAMS computer store in Salt Lake City.
CAAMS vice president, Gary Wright was seriously injured.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A3)(AP, 2/20/98)
1988 Jan 28, A 13-day standoff in
Marion, Utah, between police and a polygamist clan ended in gunfire
that killed a state corrections officer and seriously wounded the
group's leader, Ad-dam Swapp.
(AP, 1/28/98)
1989 Feb 24, In Utah a
150-million-year-old fossil egg, still inside the mother, was found by
CAT scan to contain the oldest dinosaur embryo.
(http://tinyurl.com/fme92)
1989 Mar 23, Stanley Pons and
Martin Fleischmann, Univ. of Utah scientists, claimed they had produced
atomic fusion at room temperature.
(SS, 3/23/02)(WSJ, 9/5/03, p.B1)
1991 Jan 18, Three young people
were crushed to death at an AC-DC concert in Salt Lake City.
(AP, 1/18/01)
1991 Sep 21, An 18-hour hostage
drama ended in Sandy, Utah, as Richard L. Worthington, who had killed a
nurse and seized control of a hospital maternity ward, finally freed
his nine captives, including a baby who was born during the siege.
Worthington committed suicide in prison in 1994.
(AP, 9/21/01)
1994 May 30, Mormon Church
president Ezra Taft Benson died in Salt Lake City at age 94.
(AP, 5/30/99)
1995 Mar 3, Howard Hunter (87), US
leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), died.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1995 Mar 12, Gordon B. Hinckley
(1910-2008), a grandson of Mormon pioneers, took over as president and
prophet of the Mormon church.
(AP, 1/28/08)
1995 Jun 16, Salt Lake City was
awarded the XIX Winter Olympic Games for 2002. A scandal later
developed over pay-offs.
(AP, 6/16/00)
1995 Dec 11, Utah Congresswoman
Enid Greene Waldholtz held an emotional news confer-ence in which she
publicly addressed the scandal surrounding her personal and campaign
fi-nances and blamed the mess on her estranged husband, Joe.
(AP, 12/11/00)
1995 The Slamdance Film Festival
was founded by Peter Baxter as an alternative to the Sun-dance Film
Festival.
(SFC, 2/1/99, p.E1)
1996 Mar 5, Representative Enid
Greene Waldholtz (Republican, Utah), tangled in a financial mess that
she blamed on her estranged husband, announced she would not seek a
second term.
(AP, 3/5/01)
1996 Sep 18, Pres. Clinton signed
an executive order to transform 1.7 million acres of Utah land into the
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
(SFC, 9/19/96, p.A3)(SFEC, 8/31/97, p.T5)
1996 Bruce Babbitt, US Sec. of the
Interior, called for another survey of land that might qualify for
wilderness protection, which yielded another 2.6 million acres in Utah.
(Econ, 8/23/03, p.26)
1996 A Utah law granted a
concealed weapons permit to anyone who is 21 or older, who can prove
“good character” and attends a short firearms course.
(WSJ, 5/24/04, p.A6)
1997 The Salt Lake Tribune became
an asset of Tele-Communications Inc. following the TCI merger with
Kearns-Tribune Corp.
(WSJ, 10/6/00, p.A1)
1998 Mar 25, Sumitomo Bank of
California, the state’s 6th largest retail bank, announced its sale to
Zions Bancorporation of Salt Lake for $546 million.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.E1)
1998 May 23, John Daniel Kingston
drove his daughter (17) to a remote family ranch and beat her for
running away from a polygamous marriage. She had been forced to marry
her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, and become his 15th wife. The uncle
was convicted for incest and unlaw-ful sex in 1999.
(SFC, 8/6/98, p.A11) (SFC, 6/4/99, p.A3)
1998 May 29, Three men shot and
killed police officer Dale Claxton of Cortez, Colo., when he stopped
them in a suspected stolen water truck. The body of Alan Pilon, a
suspect in the mur-der, was found in the Utah desert in 1999.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A6)(SFC, 11/3/99, p.A7)
1998 Jun 14, The Chicago Bulls
clinched their sixth NBA championship, defeating the Utah Jazz in game
six played in Salt Lake City, 87-86.
(AP, 6/14/03)
1998 Aug 7, Five young girls (ages
2-6) died from heat exposure after they were trapped in the trunk of a
car in West Valley City.
(SFC, 8/8/98, p.A5)
1998 Sep 19, David Fink (20
months) was kidnapped by his parents from a hospital in SLC where he
was being treated for malnourishment. His parents claimed he was a
Christ Child. The family was found in Montana Oct 5 and the parents
were taken into custody.
(SFC, 10/6/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 27, Alex Joseph (62),
founder of Big Water, died. He was reputed to have wed 20 women and
left behind 21 grandchildren.
(SFC, 9/29/98, p.C2)
1998 Dec 12, Marc Hodler
(1919-2006), Swiss lawyer and International Olympics Committee
official, unleashed a series of corruption allegations that included
systemic buying and selling of votes in Olympic bidding, particularly
for the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
(SFC, 10/21/06, p.B6)
1999 Jan 8, Two top organizers of
the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt lake City resigned in a mushrooming
bribery scandal.
(SFC, 1/9/99, p.A1)
1999 Jan 22, A 2nd member of the
Int'l. Olympic Commission resigned as part of the bribery scandal on
the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
(SFC, 1/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 15, In Salt Lake City,
Utah, Sergei Babarin (70) entered the Mormon Church's Fam-ily History
Library and opened fire. He killed 2 people, Patricia Frengs of
Pleasant Hill, Ca. and security guard Donald Thomas (62). He wounded 4
others and was shot dead by police.
(SFC, 4/16/99, p.A3)(SFC, 4/17/99, p.A2)
1999 May 24, The new Mormon Church
genealogical web site was unveiled and overloaded @
www.familysearch.org.
(SFC, 5/25/99, p.A3)
1999 Aug 11, A tornado hit
downtown Salt Lake City killing one person and injuring over a hundred.
(SFC, 8/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Dec 4, Eight teenagers taking
part in a wilderness program for troubled youths beat one counselor and
tied another to a tree and fled into the desert. They were all rounded
up within days and 7 of 8 accepted plea bargains.
(SFC, 12/16/99, p.A14)
1999 Richard and Joan Ostling
authored “Mormon America: The Power and the Promise.”
(www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/charles/mormonsyl.htm)
1999 The Salt Lake Tribune became
an asset of ATT following the ATT merger with Tele-Communications Inc.
(WSJ, 10/6/00, p.A1)
2000 Jan 14, The federal
government announced the return of 84,000 acres in northern Utah to the
Ute Indians. The land was taken in 1916 for the rights to oil shale
reserves.
(SFC, 1/14/00, p.A12)
2000 Feb, Sheldon Johnson found
200-million-year-old dinosaur footprints in his backyard in St. George.
(SFC, 4/22/00, p.A3)
2000 Aug 1, A fire and methane gas
explosion killed 2 workers at the Willow Creek Mine and injured 8
others.
(SFC, 8/2/00, p.A10)
2000 Aug 11, As many as 8 people
subdued Jonathan Burton (19) during a flight to Salt Lake City from Las
Vegas after he broke into the cockpit. Burton was pronounced dead on
arrival to a Salt Lake hospital.
(SFC, 9/21/00, p.A6)
2000 Oct, The 2-year-old son of
Paul Wayment wandered from his truck and froze to death. Wayment killed
himself in 2001 following a plea of negligent homicide.
(SFC, 7/19/01, p.A7)
2000 The 100th Mormon temple was
dedicated in Belmont, Mass.
(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
2001 Jan 13, In Utah a small plane
crashed into the Great Salt Lake and all 9 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 1/16/01, p.A2)
2001 Apr 4, Ed Roth (“Big Daddy”)
died at age 69 in Manti. He was one of the original crea-tors of
customized cars and the creator of the Rat Fink logo.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A21)
2001 May 14, Tom Green (52), a
bigamist with 5 wives and 29 children, went on trial in SLC for bigamy.
Green was convicted May 18 of 4 counts of bigamy and one count of
failure to pay child support. Green was sentenced to 5 years in prison
and ordered to pay $78,000 to the state for fraudulent welfare checks.
In 2002 Green was convicted of child rape for impregnating one wife at
age 13. Green was released from prison in 2007.
(SFC, 5/14/01, p.A3)(SFC, 5/19/01, p.A7)(SFC,
8/25/01, p.A3)(SFC, 6/25/02, p.A2)(SFC, 8/8/07, p.A5)
2001 May 19, In Utah it was
reported that Mormon crickets (Anabrus simplex) had reproduced into the
worst infestation since the early 1970s. The infestation grew to be the
worst since the 1940s. Grasshoppers devoured an additional 600,000
acres of vegetation.
(SFC, 5/19/01, p.A3)(SFC, 6/23/01, p.C8)
2001 Sep 13, In Utah Amtrak’s
California Zephyr train crashed into a freight train near the Ne-vada
border. 6 people were injured.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A23)
2001 Nov 14, Dennis Peron,
California’s godfather of medical marijuana, was arrested in Ce-dar
City, for smoking a joint in his hotel room. Police found nearly a
pound of marijuana. Peron said he would fight to change the state law.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A23)
2001 Dec 11, 69 airport workers in
SLC were charged with falsifying job and security applica-tions.
(WSJ, 12/12/01, p.A1)
2001 The 775-room Grand America
Hotel, owned by billionaire Earl Holding (74), was com-pleted after 5
years of construction.
(WSJ, 1/10/02, p.A1)
2001 The 122,000 sq.-foot North
American Museum of Ancient Life (NAMAL) opened in Lehi, south of SLC.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.C10)
2001 A dinosaur site was
discovered in south central Utah near the town of Green River.
(SFC, 5/5/05, p.A2)
2002 Feb 8, Pres. Bush opened the
19th Winter Olympic Games as part of a 3-hour ceremony at Rice-Eccles
Stadium at the Univ. of Utah campus, which included an emotional
tribute to America's heroes, from the pioneers of the West to past
Olympic champions to the thousands who perished on Sept. 11, 2001.
(SFC, 2/9/02, p.A1)(AP, 2/8/03)
2002 Feb 11, Gold medals for the
Olympics free-style skating event went to Russians Anton Sikharulidze
and Elena Berezhnaya. French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne later admitted
to be-ing pressured to support the Russian team. On Feb 15 Olympic
officials awarded a 2nd gold medal to Canadians David Pelletier and
Jamie Sale for their performance.
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 13, In a startling
development at the Salt Lake City winter games, the head of the French
Olympic team said the French figure skating judge had been pressured to
"act in a cer-tain way" before she voted to give the gold medal to the
Russians in pairs.
(AP, 2/13/03)
2002 Feb 19, In Salt Lake City, a
win by bobsledders Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers gave the United
States 21 medals in the Winter Games; Flowers became the first black
athlete ever to strike gold at the Winter Olympics.
(AP, 2/19/07)
2002 Feb 20, At the Salt Lake City
Winter Olympics, Jim Shea won the men's skeleton race, finishing the
two runs at Utah Olympic Park in one minute, 41.96 seconds. The victory
was the culmination of an emotional two months for Shea, whose
91-year-old grandfather, Olympic gold medal speedskater Jack Shea, died
four weeks earlier. American speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno won the 1,500
meters after South Korean Kim Dong-sung, who had crossed the finish
line ahead of him, was disqualified.
(SFC, 2/21/02, p.A1)(AP, 2/20/07)
2002 Feb 21, In Salt Lake City
Sarah Hughes (16) of Great neck, NY, won 1st place in the Olympics
women’s free skate competition, leaving teammate Michelle Kwan to
settle for a bronze.
(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A1)(AP, 2/21/07)
2002 Feb 24, The XIX Winter
Olympics in Salt Lake City came to a close. In one of the last events
Canada beat the US hockey team 5-2 for the gold. Cross-country skiers
from Spain and Russia were stripped of gold medals for failing drug
tests.
(SFC, 2/25/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/25/02, p.A1)
2002 Jun 5, Elizabeth Ann Smart
(14) was kidnapped at gunpoint from her home in Salt Lake City. Richard
Albert Ricci (48), a suspect and former handyman for the family, died
from a brain tumor on Aug 30. She was found Mar 12, 2003, with
kidnapper Brian David Mitchell and his wife. In 2005 a judge found
Mitchell mentally incompetent to stand trial.
(SFC, 6/7/02, p.A3)(SFC, 3/13/03, p.1)(SFC, 7/27/05,
p.A3)
2002 Jul 31, US court papers
alleged that Russia's Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov (53) used his influence
with members of the Russian and French skating federations to fix the
outcome of the pairs and ice dancing competitions at the Salt Lake City
Winter Olympics last February. Tok-htakhounov was arrested in Italy.
Italy’s highest court denounced an extradition bid and freed
Tokhtakhounov.
(Reuters, 7/31/02)(SFC, 8/1/02,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alimzhan_Tokhtakhounov)
2002 Oct 25, In Utah 2 F-16
fighter jets collided during training and 1 pilot survived. The 2nd
pilot’s body was found Oct 26.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A5)(SSFC, 10/27/02, p.A20)
2002 Nov 3, Kit Armstrong (10),
pianist and sophomore at a Utah college, performed before a sold out
audience at Stanford’s dinkelspiel Auditorium.
(SFC, 11/4/02, p.D1)
2002 In Utah Waldo Wilcox deeded
his Range Creek Canyon lands to the public for $2.5 mil-lion as part of
a conservation deal. He had sold the property to the Trust for Public
Land in 2001 for $2.5 million.
(WSJ, 1/31/06, p.B6)(Sm, 3/06, p.70)
2003 Jan 25, The Sundance Film
Festival in Utah gave the grand jury prize to “American Splendor” and
the documentary grand prize to “Capturing the Friedmans.” The audience
award went to “The Station Agent.”
(SSFC, 1/26/03, p.A2)
2003 Jan 29, Frank Moss (b.1911),
liberal Utah Democratic Senator (1958-1976), died. His efforts included
the addition of Capitol Reef and Canyonlands to the national park
system.
(SFC, 2/3/03, p.B4)
2003 Feb 5, It was reported that
genealogical research in Utah identified a gene that causes depression.
(WSJ, 2/5/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 12, Elizabeth Smart, the
15-year-old girl who'd vanished from her bedroom nine months earlier,
was found alive in a Salt Lake City suburb with two drifters.
(AP, 3/12/04)
2003 Mar 18, In Salt Lake City,
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee were charged with aggra-vated
kidnapping, sexual assault and burglary in the abduction of Elizabeth
Smart, who was found with them six days earlier. Mitchell and Barzee
were later found incompetent to stand trial.
(AP, 3/18/08)
2003 May 1, In Utah climber Aron
Ralston (27) amputated his own arm to escape from a can-yon where he
was pinned by a boulder.
(SFC, 5/2/03, p.A18)
2003 Aug 11, Pres. Bush named Mike
Leavitt, Republican governor of Utah, to head the EPA.
(SFC, 8/11/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 28, The US Senate
approved Utah's Gov. Mike Leavitt as head of the EPA.
(SFC, 10/29/03, p.A3)
2003 Dec 5, A federal judge in
Utah threw out the case against two civic leaders accused of bribery in
their efforts to bring the 2002 Winter Games to Salt Lake City.
(AP, 12/5/08)
2003 Dec 26, An avalanche in Provo
Canyon, Utah, left 3 snowboarders dead.
(SFC, 12/27/03, p.A5)
2003 Dec 28, A motorhome carrying
10 people went off I-15 near SLC, Utah, and 5 people were killed
including 4 children.
(SFC, 12/29/03, p.A3)
2003 An oil field, estimated at a
billion barrels, was discovered in Utah’s Sevier County.
(Econ, 8/20/05, p.27)
2004 Jan 19, Gov. Walker expressed
optimism in Utah's economy. She submitted an $8 bil-lion budget that
included 3.4% increased spending.
(USAT, 1/20/04, p.12A)
2004 Jul 19, Lori Hacking (27) of
Salt Lake City, Utah, went missing. Her husband Mark (28) said she
failed to return from a jog. She was reportedly five weeks pregnant.
Police found her husband Mark Hacking running naked around a motel not
far from his home the next day. He was put into a psychiatric hospital
after police found him. Police arrested Hacking on Aug 2 and filed 1st
degree murder charges on Aug 9. In 2005 Mark Hacking pleaded guilty to
her murder. On June 6, 2005, Mark Hacking was sentenced 6 years to life
in prison, the maximum the judge could give under Utah law. Under
Utah's system of indeterminate criminal sentences.
(SFC, 8/2/04, p.A3)(SFC, 8/3/04, p.A2)(SFC, 8/10/04,
p.A4)(SFC, 4/16/05, p.A5)
2004 Aug 2, Police in Salt Lake
City arrested Mark Hacking, whose wife, Lori, had disap-peared, on a
charge of aggravated murder. On October 1, 2004, searchers found human
re-mains in the Salt Lake County landfill. By that afternoon police had
confirmed that the remains were those of Lori Hacking. Lori Kay Soares
was buried in Orem City Cemetery, Orem, Utah County, Utah. The dates on
her stone are December 31, 1976 to July 19, 2004.
(AP,
8/2/05)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Hacking)
2004 Oct 1, The Utah state medical
examiner's office used dental records to identify Lori Hacking's
remains about six hours after they were discovered in a landfill.
(AP, 10/2/04)(SFC, 10/2/04, p.A2)
2004 Nov 2, Jon Huntsman (R) was
elected governor of Utah.
(SFC, 11/4/04, p.A18)
2004 The Utah Legislature passed a
law requiring the Univ. of Utah to lift a ban against stu-dents and
employees carrying firearms.
(WSJ, 5/24/04, p.A1)
2005 Jan 14, In Park City, Utah, 5
people were feared buried by a massive avalanche.
(AP, 1/15/05)
2005 May 2, Utah’s Gov. Jon
Huntsman signed a measure defying the Bush administration's No Child
Left Behind Act despite a warning from the federal education secretary
that it could cost $76 million in federal aid. The legislation gives
Utah's education standards priority over federal requirements of the No
Child Left Behind Act.
(AP, 5/3/05)
2005 May 5, It was reported that
Wolverine Gas & Oil of Grand Rapids, Mich., had snapped up leasing
rights to a half-million acres in central Utah and estimated yields up
to a billion or more barrels of oil.
(SFC, 5/5/05, p.C3)
2006 Jan 15, The NASA space
capsule, Stardust, returned safely to Earth in a desert near Salt Lake
City with the first dust ever fetched from a comet, a cosmic bounty
that scientists hope will yield clues to how the solar system formed.
(http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/photo/er.html)(AP,
1/15/06)
2006 Feb 24, Judge Walter Steed, a
small-town judge with three wives, was ordered removed from the bench
by the Utah Supreme Court for violating the state's bigamy law.
(AP, 2/24/06)
2006 Jun 5, More than 50 National
Guardsmen from Utah became the first unit to work along the US-Mexico
border as part of President Bush's crackdown on illegal immigration.
(AP, 6/5/07)
2006 Jul 24, Police officers in
Salt Lake City found the body of missing 5-year-old Destiny Norton in
the basement of a home in her neighborhood and arrested Craig R.
Gregerson (20) who lived there. Destiny disappeared from outside her
house on July 16.
(AP, 7/25/06)
2006 Aug 7, Utah doctors
successfully separated conjoined twins Kendra and Maliyah Herrin. The
4-year-old sisters had been born fused at the midsection with just one
kidney and one set of legs. Reconstruction surgery continued.
(AP, 8/8/06)
2006 Aug 29, Warren Steed Jeffs
(50), a fugitive polygamist, was arrested in Nevada. He was on the
FBI’s 10 most-wanted list for sex crimes in Utah and Arizona. Jeffs
ruled the Fundamen-talist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
(FLDS) since his father died in 2002. The sect had broken from the
Mormon Church over a century ago.
(SFC, 8/30/06, p.A11)(Econ, 9/9/06, p.34)
2006 Sep 20, In Salt Lake City a
2-year-old boy died from kidney failure due to an E. coli in-fection
attributed to spinach.
(SFC, 10/6/06, p.A3)
2007 Jan 27, Sundance Film
Festival's grand-jury prize for best US drama went to "Padre Nuestro,"
an immigrant saga about a Mexican teen's heartbreaking search for his
father in America.
(AP, 1/28/07)
2007 Feb 12, In Salt Lake City,
Utah, Sulejmen Talovic (18) opened fire on shoppers, killing five and
wounding four others before police fatally shot him at the Trolley
Square shopping mall. Talovic was armed with several rounds of
ammunition and carried two guns. Ken Hammond, an off-duty officer,
cornered Talovic and prevented further loss of life.
(AP, 2/13/07)(SFC, 2/14/07, p.A6)
2007 Apr 4, Jon and Karen
Huntsman, the billionaire parents of Utah’s Gov. Jon Huntsman,
announced that they would pay $1 million for a public education
campaign in Utah about the risks of cervical cancer and a new vaccine
that can prevent it.
(SFC, 4/5/07, p.A6)
2007 Jun 18, In Utah an
11-year-old boy was dragged from a tent and killed by a black bear in
American Fork Canyon.
(SFC, 6/19/07, p.A2)
2007 Jun 25, In Utah police
recaptured Curtis Allgier (27) after he wrested a gun from a
cor-rections officer Stephen Anderson, killed him and fled in a stolen
SUV.
(SFC, 6/26/07, p.A4)
2007 Jul 1, In northeastern Utah a
wildfire burned 46 square miles and killed 3 people working in a
hayfield.
(SFC, 7/2/07, p.A7)
2007 Jul 7, Wildfires in
California consumed 17,000 acres in Inyo National Forest and 7,500
acres in Los Padres National Forest. An 8,000-acre wildfire forced
hundreds of people in the town of Winnemucca to leave their homes, one
of more than a dozen blazes that charred a combined 55 square miles in
northern Nevada. In Utah a 160,000-acre wildfire forced evacua-tions at
Cove Fort and the Blundell Geothermal Power Plant. Wildfires also
burned in Colorado, Arizona, Oregon and Washington states.
(AP, 7/8/07)(SSFC, 7/8/07, p.A5)
2007 Jul 23, A wildfire in
southern Idaho had covered more than 880 square miles, growing by about
200 square miles in just 24 hours during the weekend. Fire officials
said it threatened tracking and radar facilities at Mountain Home Air
Force bombing and firing range, which is used by pilots training for
duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Firefighters in central Utah faced a
threat of strong wind gusts as they battled a huge wildfire, where
several small communities were evacuated.
(AP, 7/23/07)(SFC, 7/23/07, p.A5)
2007 Aug 6, In Utah 6 coal miners
were trapped by a cave-in more than 1,500 feet below the surface at the
Crandall Canyon Mine.
(AP, 8/7/07)(SFC, 8/18/07, p.A3)
2007 Aug 16, In Utah the search
for six miners missing deep underground was abruptly halted after a
second cave-in killed three rescue workers and injured at least six
others who were trying to tunnel through rubble to reach them. The
search for six trapped miners at the Crandall Canyon Mine was later
abandoned.
(AP, 8/17/07)(AP, 8/16/08)
2007 Sep 9, In Utah searchers
found the body of Camille Cleverley (22) at the base of a cliff near
Bridal Veil Falls in Provo. The Brigham Young Univ. student had been
missing for over a week.
(SFC, 9/10/07, p.A4)
2007 Sep 25, Warren Jeffs, the
leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group, was con-victed in St.
George, Utah, of being an accomplice to rape for performing a wedding
between a 19-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl. Jeffs was later
sentenced to two consecutive terms of five years to life in prison.
(AP, 9/25/08)
2007 Nov 6, George Osmond (90),
father of Donny and Marie Osmond and patriarch to the family's singing
group The Osmond Brothers, died in Provo, Utah.
(AP, 11/6/08)
2007 Nov 20, In Utah polygamist
leader Warren Jeffs, self-proclaimed prophet of a break-away Mormon
sect, was sentenced to 10 years to life in prison for forcing a
14-year-old to marry her first cousin.
(Reuters, 11/21/07)
2008 Jan 6, In southeastern Utah a
chartered bus ran off a wet road and rolled 41 feet down an embankment,
killing eight passengers who were returning home from a ski trip. About
20 others were injured.
(AP, 1/7/08)
2008 Jan 19, James Levoy Sorenson
(b.1921), medical device inventor and Utah real estate investor, died.
He amassed over 40 medical patents and introduced the disposable paper
sur-gical mask.
(WSJ, 1/26/08, p.A8)
2008 Jan 26, The film “Frozen
River,” directed by Courtney Hunt, won first prize at the Sun-dance
Film Festival in Park City, Utah. “Trouble the Water” won as best US
documentary film. “The Wackness” won the audience award.
(SSFC, 1/27/08, p.A2)
2008 Jan 26, It was reported that
some 15,000 birds had died over the last month around Utah’s Great Salt
Lake due to avian cholera, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella
multocida. The disease was introduced into the wild during the 1940s
from US domestic poultry.
(SFC, 1/26/08, p.B6)
2008 Jan 27, Gordon B. Hinckley
(b.1910), the humble head of the Mormon church, died in Salt Lake City.
He added millions of new members and labored long to burnish the
faith's image as a world religion.
(AP, 1/28/08)
2008 Feb 4, In Utah Thomas S.
Monson (80) was introduced as the 16th president of The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. He had become known for his folksy
storytelling as he ascended through church ranks.
(AP, 2/4/08)
2008 Jun 16, In Utah the Bureau of
Land Management announced a dinosaur find, calling the quarry near
Hanksville "a major dinosaur fossil discovery." An excavation revealed
at least four plant-eating dinosaurs and two carnivorous ones dating
back to about 150 million BC.
(AP, 6/17/08)
2008 Aug, Utah began a trial 4-day
work week for about 17,000 of the state's 24,000 execu-tive-branch
employees. Closing state offices on Fridays was supposed to cut energy
costs and reduce carbon emissions. The program led to an increase in
volunteer activities.
(AP, 7/11/09)
2008 Aug 23, In Utah a small plane
crashed and burned shortly after takeoff from Can-yonlands Field
airport. All 10 aboard, including 9 employees of a Cedar City
dermatology com-pany, who traveled to remote areas to provide medical
treatments.
(SSFC, 8/24/08, p.A2)
2008 Aug 24, In Guatemala a Cessna
Caravan carrying humanitarian workers crashed about 60 miles east of
Guatemala City killing 10 people, including five Americans. At least 2
people survived. The plane was headed to a village in the area of El
Estor to build homes for CHOICE Humanitarian, a group based in West
Jordan, Utah.
(AP, 8/25/08)
2008 Sep 26, The Utah legislature
addressed a $354 million budget deficit in a 2-day special session,
primarily through a three percent across-the-board cut in state agency
spending, while preserving a $500 million reserve fund to address a
potential future shortfall.
(www.statescape.com/SessionUpdates/SessionUpdates.asp)
2009 Feb 10, The Utah state
Department of Agriculture said Africanized honey bees have been found
for the first time in the Beehive State. The bees, long the subject of
lore as "killer bees," were recently discovered in Utah's Washington
and Kane counties.
(AP, 2/12/09)
2009 Feb 25, US Interior Sec. Ken
Salazar scrapped leases, created under the Bush admini-stration, on
federal land for oil-shale development in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
(AP, 2/26/09)
2009 Feb 25, The US Supreme Court
ruled that the Summum group does not have a right to erect the “Seven
aphorism” of its beliefs in Pleasant Gove City, Utah, park just because
the Ten Commandments are displayed there.
(SFC, 2/26/09, p.A6)
2009 Mar 9, Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman
and state house and senate leaders agreed to elimi-nate the state’s
40-year-old private club system in an effort to boost tourism.
(SFC, 3/10/09, p.A5)
2009 Mar 17, In Utah Chiew Chan
Saevang (37), a suspected opium trafficker, killed himself and his
girlfriend, Yer Yang (40), after sheriff’s deputies chased them down on
a state highway. Saevang was also wanted in the March 12 slaying of
four Conover, NC, family members.
(SFC, 3/19/09, p.A5)
2009 May 12, In Utah partitions
know as “Zion curtains” began coming down as a new law came into effect
allowing bartenders to serve patrons directly over the bar.
(SFC, 5/13/09, p.A8)
2009 May 16, President Barack
Obama reached across the political divide and named Utah Gov. Jon
Huntsman, a potential Republican presidential contender in 2012, to the
sensitive dip-lomatic post of US ambassador to China.
(AP, 5/16/09)
2009 Jun 22, US pilot Capt. George
B. Houghton (28), of Candler, NC, died in an F-16 crash at the Utah
Test and Training Range near the Nevada-Utah state line.
(SFC, 6/24/09, p.A4)(SFC, 6/25/09, p.A5)
2009 Jun 29, It was reported that
a grasshopper invasion was under way in Utah. This year's invasion in
Tooele County west of Salt Lake City was worse than anyone can remember.
(AP, 6/29/09)
2009 Jul 1, Utah ditched a
40-year-old requirement for bar customers to fill out applications and
pay a fee to become a member of a private club before entering a bar.
(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A5)
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