Monday, June 20, 1910. Enabling Act of 1910

President Taft signed the Enabling Act of 1910, granting the conditions for the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona to be admitted as states.

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Sunday, June 19, 1910. The first Father's Day.

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Sunday, June 19, 1910. The first Father's Day.

Today In Wyoming's History: June 19: 1910    Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Wash.

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Saturday, June 18, 1910. Welcoming home TR.

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Saturday, June 18, 1910. Welcoming home TR.

Theodore Roosevelt was given a tape parade as a welcome back from his post Presidential trip to Africa and Europe.

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Friday, June 17, 1910. Creation of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

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Friday, June 17, 1910. Creation of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

The United States Lighthouse Service was created The office of the Commissioner was transferred to the United States Coast Guard in 1935.

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Tuesday, June 7, 1910. Suppressing a rebellion, incorporating a town, birth of a famous photographer.

Labels: 1910, 1910s, Caste War of Yucatán, Farm Security Administration, Great Depression, Mayan people, Mexico, Personalities, Photography, Women, Wyoming (Byron), Yucatan Mexico

Tuesday, June 7, 1910. Suppressing a rebellion, incorporating a town, birth of a famous photographer.

Mexican troops were dispatched to suppress an uprising by the Maya Indians in Yucatán.

Byron Wyoming was incorporated.

Farm Security Administration Marion Post Wolcott was born in New Jersey.

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Sunday, June 5, 1910. Death of O. Henry.

Labels: 1900s, 1910, The written word

Sunday, June 5, 1910. Death of O. Henry.

William Sidney Porter, known to the public as  "O. Henry", one of the greatest American short story authors, died at the age of 47 from cirrhosis of the liver and diabetes.

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Saturday, June 4, 1910. An attack during the Caste War of Yucatán.

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Saturday, June 4, 1910. An attack during the Caste War of Yucatán.

Mayan rebels attacked the town of Valladolid, Mexico. They killed 40 people, including local police resulting in the dispatch of the gunboat Morelos with 600 troops.

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Wednesday, June 1, 1910. The first European American settlements on the banks of the Iditarod.

Labels: 1910, 1910s, Alaska, British Antarctic Expedition, Iditarod, Mining

Wednesday, June 1, 1910. The first European American settlements on the banks of the Iditarod.

The British Antarctic Expedition departed from London with a goal of reaching the South Pole in December..

The first European American settlements on the banks of the Iditarod were made when a steamer brought gold prospectors to within eight miles of a gold strike.

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Tuesday, May 31, 1910. Union of South Africa created.

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Tuesday, May 31, 1910. Union of South Africa created.

The Union of South Africa was created from a merger of the British Cape Colony and Colony of Natal, and the conquered Boer  republics.

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Wednesday, May 25, 1910. Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright flew on the same plane for the only time, Wilbur made his last flight as a pilot.

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Wednesday, May 25, 1910. Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright flew on the same plane for the only time, Wilbur made his last flight as a pilot.

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Tuesday, May 10, 1910. Powell incorporated.

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Tuesday, May 10, 1910. Powell incoporated.

Today In Wyoming's History: May 10: 1910  Powell incorporated.

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Thursday, May 5, 1910. T.R. takes the prize.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, for 1909.  He pledged to donate the money "as a nucleus for a foundation to forward the cause of industrial peace".

Cartago, Costa Rica, was destroyed by an earthquake which killed more than 1,500 people.

Seventy coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Palos Coal and Coke Company at Walker County, Alabama.

The town of Hillsborough, California, was incorporated.

The U.S. Weather Bureau, predecessor to the National Weather Service, set a standing record for the highest altitude achieved by a kite 23,826 feet.

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Wednesday, May 4, 1910. The Royal Canadian Navy came into being.

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Wednesday, May 4, 1910. The Royal Canadian Navy came into being.

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Wednesday, April 27, 1910. Elephants on the rampage.

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Wednesday, April 27, 1910. Elephants on the rampage.

A herd of nine escaped circus elephants rampaged through Danville, Illinois.

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Thursday, April 21, 1910. Samuel Clemens passes.

Labels: 1910, 1910s, Death, Mark Twain, Personalities, The written word

Thursday, April 21, 1910. Samuel Clemens passes.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, died at the age of 74 at his home in Redding, Connecticut. 

His last word were written, being "Give me my glasses".  He wrote them to his daughter.

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Wednesday, April 20, 1910. Halley's Comet was visible to the naked eye for the first time since its return to the Solar System.

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