Thursday, June 3, 2021

Friday, June 3, 1921. The Pueblo Flood

The devastating Pueblo Flood occurred due to two torrential spring cloudbursts in the region.  Hundreds, maybe over 1,000, people were killed and downtown Pueblo was destroyed.


The local paper reported no loss of life, but the worse, much worse, was yet to come.

On the same day,Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy,  was appointed Governor General of Canada.

Lady and Lord Byng.

He would hold the position until 1926 and famously refused a recommendation of Mackenzie King to dissolve the Canadian parliament in order to avoid a no confidence vote. At that time, the Governor General still retained a measure of authority that they'd later lack.

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