1826-08-22 – Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake Utah
1848-05-30 – Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million
1850-02-28 – The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1850-09-09 – Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
1856-06-09 – 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1857-09-11 – Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
1861-03-02 – US creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah ter
1862-07-01 – Congress outlaws polygamy (1st time); bad news for Utah
1863-07-30 – Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
1868-07-25 – US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)
1875-10-16 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1895-11-05 – US state Utah accepts female suffrage
1896-10-30 – Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator
1896-11-03 – Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator
1897-01-11 – M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in US (Utah)
1900-05-01 – Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
1908-04-16 – Natural Bridges National Monument forms (Lake Powell, Utah)
1908-05-30 – US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
1909-02-01 – US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
1914-01-13 – IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested “Girl from Utah” East-Prussia
1915-10-04 – Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established
1918-07-22 – Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah’s Wasatch National Park
1924-03-08 – Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah
1926-02-17 – Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch Bingham Utah, 40 die
1933-04-07 – ‘National Beer Day” Cullen-Harrison act comes into effect legalising sale of low alcohol beer
1933-06-30 – US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah closes
1938-12-01 – School bus & train collide in Salt Lake City Utah
1944-03-28 – 6th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40
1944-12-31 – 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
1953-05-19 – Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St George, Utah)
1961-03-25 – 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph’s defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes
1965-11-04 – Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah
1966-08-10 – Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere & leaving it again
1968-04-12 – Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.
1970-09-05 – Estimated 15 cm (6″) of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record)
1974-10-03 – Ted Bundy victim Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1974-10-31 – Ted Bundy victim Laura Aime disappears in Utah
1974-11-08 – Ted Bundy victim Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1975-07-04 – Ted Bundy victim Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah
1976-11-10 – Utah Supreme Court approves execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
1982-12-02 – 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart
1984-09-15 – Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985
1984-12-19 – Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
1985-01-02 – Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score
1985-02-01 – -69°F (-56°C), Peter’s Sink, Utah (state record)
1989-03-23 – 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
1990-12-16 – KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions
1990-12-17 – KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
1991-10-04 – Delta Center in Salt Lake City Utah
1994-07-23 – Amy Osmond of Utah, 17, crowned America’s Junior Miss
2002-02-08 – XIX Winter Olympics opens in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
2002-02-24 – XIX Winter Olympics closes in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
