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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)
 Over half of Utah is owned by the federal government.
  (Econ., 5/2/15, p.27)
515Mil BCÂ Â Â The Burgess Shale, a
rock formation amid the glaciated mountains from British Columbia 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 Polychaete worm or mollusk), Burgessochaeta (an annelid
worm), Opabinia, Sanctacaris (arthropod, 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 Burgess 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 BCÂ Â Â 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)
c200Mil BCÂ Â Â 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 BCÂ Â Â 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)
150Mil BCÂ Â Â 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 BCÂ Â Â 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)
125Mil BCÂ Â Â 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
therizinosaurs found in fossil bed in China.
   (SFC, 5/5/05, p.A2)
125mil BCÂ Â Â In 2010 US scientists announced the
discovery of a small, feathered raptor-like dinosaur thought to be
125 million years old in eastern Utah. The Geminiraptor suarezarum
was bipedal and, like other raptors, had a large head.
   (AP, 12/17/10)
100Mil BCÂ Â Â Fossils of a predator dinosaur that
lived about this time in Utah were discovered in 2008. Scientists in
2013 named it Siats meekerorum, and said it was related to
allosauroids.
   (SFC, 11/23/13, p.A10)
c100Mil BC Â Â Â Dinosaurs native to Asia traveled over
to North America according to fossil evidence in Utah.
   (SFC, 4/27/99, p.A2)
98.4Mil BCÂ Â Â 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)
98Mil BCÂ Â Â In Utah volcanic ash just above a large
deposit of fossils was dated to this time.
   (SFC, 10/14/97, p.A9)
80Mil BCÂ Â Â In 2013 scientists in Utah unveiled the
bones of a dinosaur discovered in 2009. It was named Lythronax
argestes, or "king of gore," for its large teeth and apparent
dominance as a predator. They dated it to about 80 million BC.
   (Reuters, 11/7/13)
80Mil BC - 75Mil BCÂ Â Â In Utah rocks dating to this
period contained burrows fossilized in sandstone. Scientists in 2010
speculated that signs of digging around the burrows were evidence of
dinosaurs digging for small mammals.
   (Econ, 7/31/10, p.66)
76Mil BCÂ Â Â The 15-foot dinosaur Nasutoceratops
titusi lived about this time. Fossils of the 2.5 ton big-nosed,
horned-faced dinosour were discovered in Utah in 2013.
   (SFC, 7/18/13, p.A6)
70Mil BCÂ Â Â A dinosaur species, later (2010) named
Kosmoceratops (ornate horned-face), thrived in Utah about this time.
It had 15 horns decorating its massive head, giving it the most
elaborate dinosaur headdress known to science. Another species in
Utah from this time, later (2010) named Utahceratops (Utah
horned-face), was roughly 20 feet long and weighed 3 to 4 tons.
   (http://tinyurl.com/25c48yu)
60Mil BCÂ Â Â The Fossil Butte Member of the Green
River Formation in southwest Wyoming represents 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)
50Mil BC - 42Mil BCÂ Â Â 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 Fossil 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)
40Mil BCÂ Â Â A climate change caused the end of the
large lake system in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah.
   (NH, 7/98, p.68)
1Mil BCÂ Â Â A Grand Canyon lava dam created a lake
larger than Lake Mead and Lake Powell combined. 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)
23000 BCÂ Â Â Lake Bonneville crested and covered some
20,000 sq. miles over what is now Utah, Nevada, and Idaho.
   (NH, 9/96, p.62)
12000BCÂ Â Â 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)
100BC - 1300Â Â Â This represents the time period of
the Anasazi culture of northern Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah
and Colorado.
   (WUD, 1994, p.53)
200-1215Â Â Â The Fremont people lived in Utah and
etched into rock designs of animals and people.
   (SFEC, 3/14/99, p.T8,9)
500-1315Â Â Â 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)
900-1100Â Â Â A Fremont culture settlement in Horse
Canyon, Utah, left extensive ruins that became known as Range Creek.
   (SFC, 6/30/04, p.A2)
1300Â Â Â Â Â Â A drought pervaded the
southwest of North America.
   (Sm, 3/06, p.74)
1350Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1500Â Â Â Â Â Â Geologists in 2009 said an
earthquake of magnitude 6.5-7, dated to about this time, tore a deep
gash into a 35-mile fault segment along the Wasatch front of Utah
state.
   (SFC, 9/25/09, p.A8)
1801Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 1, Mormon leader
Brigham Young (d.1877), the second president of the Mormon Church,
was born in Whitingham, Vt.
   (AP, 6/1/97)
1805Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1820Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1823Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1826Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Aug 22, Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith moved near Salt Lake
Utah.
  Â
(http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-112/summary/index.asp)
1826Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1827Â Â Â Â Â Â Joseph Smith received his
tablets on Mount Cumorah near Palmyra, NY.
   (NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1829Â Â Â Â Â Â May 15, Joseph Smith was
"ordained" by John the Baptist- according to Joseph Smith.Â
Mormon church was founded in NY.
   (MC, 5/15/02)
1830Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 (25) published
the “Book of Mormon” in Palmyra, New York. He claimed that the
manuscript was based on ancient golden plates revealed to him by the
angel Moroni and written in the language of the Egyptians. The book
records the journey of an ancient Israelite prophet, Lehi, and his
family to the American continent some 2,000 years ago. [see 1827,
1831] Some 5,000 copies of the book were published. In 2014 Avi
Steinberg authored “The Lost Book of Mormon: A Journey Through the
Mythic Lands of Nephi, Zarahemla & Kansas City, Missouri.”
   (SFC, 4/9/96, A-7)(NH, 10/96, p.19)(AP,
4/6/97)(SFC, 6/15/12, p.A24)(SSFC, 10/26/14, p.P3)
1831Â Â Â Â Â Â Early followers of Joseph
Smith merged with a communal Christian sect and relocated to
Kirkland, Ohio. [see 1838]
   (SFC, 4/9/96, A-7)
1832Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 24, Mormon founder,
martyr Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio.
   (MC, 3/24/02)
1836Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1837Â Â Â Â Â Â Conflicts broke up the
Mormon communities in Missouri and Ohio.
   (NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1838Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1838Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 13, Joseph F. Smith,
6th president of Mormon church, was born.
   (MC, 11/13/01)
1838Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1839Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1840Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1841Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, Cornerstone was
laid for 2nd Mormon temple at Nauvoo, Missouri.
   (MC, 4/6/02)
1841-1846Â Â Â The Mormon Temple at Nauvoo, Ill., was
built.
   (SFEC, 8/29/99, p.T3)
1843Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 12, Mormon leader
Joseph Smith said God encourages polygamy.
   (MC, 7/12/02)
1844Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1844Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1845Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1846Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 4, The first Mormons
left Nauvoo, Ill., and crossed the Mississippi River heading toward
Utah. 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)(AH,
2/06, p.14)
1846Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, Members of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormons, began an
exodus to the west from Illinois.
   (AP, 2/10/97)
1846Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 21, Mormons founded
the 1st English settlement in the San Joaquin Valley of Calif.
   (MC, 7/21/02)
1847Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1847Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1848Â Â Â Â Â Â May 30, Mexico ratified
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo giving US: New Mexico, California
and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15
million.
   (MC, 5/30/02)
1848Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1849Â Â Â Â Â Â A party from Kansas,
headed for the California Gold Rush, called themselves the
Jayhawkers. 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)
1850Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 9, Territories of New
Mexico & Utah created.
   (MC, 9/9/01)
1850Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 29, Pres. Millard
Fillmore named Mormon leader Brigham Young as the first governor of
the Utah Territory.
   (HN, 9/29/98)(SFC, 10/23/02, p.H4)
1850Â Â Â Â Â Â The Mormons applied
unsuccessfully for Utah statehood. Debates with the federal
government 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)
1852-1892Â Â Â The Salt Lake Temple on Temple Square in
Salt lake City was constructed over this period.
   (THM, 4/27/97, p.N2)
1853Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 26, R.H. Kern,
American artist, was killed by Indians in Utah.
   (SSFC, 4/10/05, p.F9)
1853Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 photographer Solomon
Nunes Carvalho, who took hundreds of daguerreotypes. Many of the
images 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)
1856Â Â Â Â Â Â 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.
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_handcart_pioneers)(SFC,
8/13/98, p.A9)(Econ, 12/22/07, p.39) 1856Â Â Â
   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.
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_handcart_pioneers)(SFC,
8/13/98, p.A9)(Econ, 12/22/07, p.39)
1857Â Â Â Â Â Â 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.
All but the youngest children were slaughtered. Lee, who first
blamed the massacre on Paiute Indians, was excommunicated in 1870
and tried, convicted 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.” In 2011 the site was
dedicated as a national historic landmark.
   (SFC, 10/23/02, p.H4)(AP, 9/11/07)(SFC, 9/12/11,
p.A4)
1857Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1858Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, President Buchanan
issued a proclamation declaring Mormons in the Utah Territory to be
in a state of rebellion against the US government.
   (AP, 4/6/08)
1858Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun, The US Army entered
Utah and installed a new governor.
   (SFC, 10/23/02, p.H4)
1861Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 2, US Congress created
the Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah
territories
   (SC, 3/2/02)
1862Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 prosecution of over 1300 Mormons. It also
granted large tracts of public land to the states with the directive
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)
1866Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1866Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1866Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 15, Robert LeRoy
Parker, a.k.a. "Butch Cassidy," was born in Beaver, Utah. [see Apr
6,13]
   (MesWP)
1867Â Â Â Â Â Â The Tabernacle, home of
the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, was completed in Salt Lake City, Utah.
   (THM, 4/27/97, p.N2)
1868Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, Brigham Young
married his 27th and final wife (I am done with wifery).
   (MC, 4/6/02)
1869Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1869Â Â Â Â Â Â 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. More
than 10,000 laborers recruited from China worked on the CPR. 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 Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869." In 2007
Richard Rayner authored “The Associates: Four Capitalists 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)(SSFC, 5/5/19, p.A2)
1870Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 12, Women in the Utah
Territory gained the right to vote. However, that right was taken
away in 1887.
   (AP, 2/12/07)
1871Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1871Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1871Â Â Â Â Â Â The Salt Lake Tribune was
founded by dissident Mormons.
   (WSJ, 10/6/00, p.A1)
1873Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1873Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 18, Otto Harbach,
songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes), was born in, SLC, Utah.
   (MC, 8/18/02)
1873-1874Â Â Â Carleton Watkins photographed Weber
Canyon.
   (WSJ, 8/20/99, p.A16)
1875Â Â Â Â Â Â 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.
  Â
(www.epcc.edu/nwlibrary/borderlands/19_mormons.htm)
1877Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 29, Brigham Young
(76), the second president of the Mormon Church, died in Salt Lake
City, Utah.
   (AP, 8/29/97)
1877Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 execution in 1887.
   (HN, 9/11/98)(HNQ, 9/14/99)(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.M1)
1879Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1879Â Â Â Â Â Â May 5, The US Supreme
Court supported the power of states to restrict polygamy in Reynolds
vs. United States.
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._United_States)(SSFC,
12/15/13, p.A13)
1879Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 guillotine never fails." It was 27 minutes before he
could be pronounced dead.
  Â
(http://historytogo.utah.gov/salt_lake_tribune/in_another_time/012896.html)
1880Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1882Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1885Â Â Â Â Â Â 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.
  Â
(www.epcc.edu/nwlibrary/borderlands/19_mormons.htm)
1886Â Â Â Â Â Â Assembly Hall, a
gothic-style building built by the Latter-day Saint pioneers, was
completed in Salt Lake City.
   (THM, 4/27/97, p.N3)
1887Â Â Â Â Â Â 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, dismantled 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.
  Â
(http://somemormonstuff.blogspot.com/2007/02/edmunds-tucker-act-chap.html)
1889Â Â Â Â Â Â The Khan Mansion was built
in SLC.
   (SSFC, 2/10/02, p.C11)
1890Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1893Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 4, US president
Cleveland granted amnesty to Mormon polygamists.
   (MC, 1/4/02)
1893Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, Mormon Temple in
Salt Lake City was dedicated.
   (MC, 4/6/02)
1895Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 28, Spencer W.
Kimball, 12th Prophet of the Mormon Church, was born.
   (HN, 3/28/98)
1896Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 4, Utah was
admitted to the Union as the 45th state.
   (AP, 1/4/98)
1900Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1906Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 19, Philo T.
Farnsworth (d.1971), inventor (electronic TV), was born in Beaver
County, Utah.
  Â
(http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfarnsworth.htm)
1907Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1909Â Â Â Â Â Â Earl Douglass discovered
dinosaur bones in eastern Utah.
   (SFEC, 3/14/99, p.T8)
1910Â Â Â Â Â Â Senator William Curry
built his Curry Manor in Vernal.
   (SFEC, 3/14/99, p.T9)
1911Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 23, Frank Moss
(d.2003), liberal Utah Democratic Senator (1958-1976), was born in
Salt Lake City.
   (SFC, 2/3/03, p.B4)
1913Â Â Â Â Â Â Loretta Young (d.2000),
film actress, was born in Salt Lake City as Gretchen Michaela Young.
   (SFEC, 8/13/00, p.B10)
1914Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 10, In Utah John
Morrison, a Salt Lake City grocer and father of six, was shot dead
along with his son (17) after two men entered his shop. Labor leader
Joe Hill (1879-1915) was soon treated for a fresh gunshot wound and
was later tried and convicted for murder.
   (Econ, 8/6/11, p.73)
1915Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1915Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 19, Joe Hill (b.1879),
labor leader and songwriter, was executed for murder. Joe Hill
(Joseph 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 executed 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). In
2011 William Adler authored “The Man Who Never Died: The Life,
Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill.”
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill)(SSFC,
1/7/01, p.A21)(Econ, 8/6/11, p.73)
1920Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 13, Laraine Day
(d.2007), film actress, was born in Roosevelt, Utah. Her work
included over 4 dozen films from the late 1930s to 1960.
   (SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
1921-1924Â Â Â Charles Rendell Mabey served as
governor.
   (SFC, 9/25/99, p.A21)
1922Â Â Â Â Â Â The Colorado River Compact
allocated 7.5 million acre-feet of water from the upper basin 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)
1924Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 8, Coal mine explosion
killed 171 at Castle Gate, Utah.
   (MC, 3/8/02)
1926Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 17, An avalanche
buried 75 in Sap Gulch, Bingham, Utah, and 40 died.
   (MC, 2/17/02)
1928Â Â Â Â Â Â The Bear River Migratory
Bird Refuge, a 74,000 acre National Wildlife Refuge in Utah, was
established.
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_River_Migratory_Bird_Refuge)
1930Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1930Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 business 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)
1933Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 7, “Near beer” (3.2
beer) became legal after FDR signed an amendment to the Volstead
Act, which had made drinking alcohol a federal crime. Prohibition
ended when Utah became 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)
1933Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 5, Prohibition was
repealed--much to the delight of thirsty revelers--when Utah became
the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution. The nationwide prohibition 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 activity. 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 repeal
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)
1934Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 22, Orrin Hatch, U.S.
senator from Utah, was born.
   (HN, 3/22/97)
1935Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1936-1947Â Â Â J. Bracken Lee (1899-1996) was the mayor
of Price, his hometown.
   (SFC, 10/22/96, p.A18)
1937Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1942Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 17, Japanese detainees
from the California assembly center at Tanforan race track began
their transfer to Abraham, Utah, 140 miles south of SLC. The
assembly center remained in operation for 169 days after which
detainees were transferred to relocation camps. The first trainload
internees arrived at the Topaz internment camp. By October the
desert camp had reached its maximum capacity of 8,232.
   (Ind, 2/2/02, 5A)(SFC, 4/230/16, p.C2)
1942-1945Â Â Â Dave Tatsuno (1914-2006) shot a home
video, later named "Topaz," in the Topaz Relocation 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)
1944Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1946Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1946Â Â Â Â Â Â A dissenting Mormon sect
from Utah set up a community practicing polygamy in Bountiful, BC,
Canada. In 2009 2 leaders of the Bountiful commune appeared in court
to answer criminal charges.
   (Econ, 1/24/09, p.44)
1947Â Â Â Â Â Â The Mormon church
membership grew to 1 million.
   (NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1948Â Â Â Â Â Â May 29, Anthony Geary,
actor (Luke/Bill-General Hospital), was born in Coalville, UT.
   (SC, 5/29/02)
1949-1957Â Â Â J. Bracken Lee (1899-1996) governed
Utah.
   (SFC, 10/22/96, p.A18)
1951Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1951Â Â Â Â Â Â In Utah an interview with
madam Rossette Duccinni Davie, who ran the Rose Rooms brothel in
Ogden with her husband in the 1940s and 1950s, was transcribed in
shorthand style. The interview with former Standard-Examiner
reporter Bert Strand was hidden inside a box of 1970s photos from
the newspaper and only became public in 2020.
   (AP, 2/1/20)
1952Â Â Â Â Â Â The Salt Lake Tribune
entered a joint operating agreement with the Mormon run Deseret
News.
   (WSJ, 10/6/00, p.A1)
1955Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 30, Jill Kinmont
Boothe (1936-2012), Los Angeles native and national women's slalom
champion, crashed and broke her neck in Alta, Utah, while trying to
make the US Olympic team. She was paralyzed below her shoulders and
would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. Her skiing career
over, she learned to write, type and paint using her neck and
shoulder muscles with the aid of a hand brace.
   (AP,
2/12/12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Kinmont_Boothe)
1956Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1958Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 11, Monument Valley,
straddling the Arizona-Utah border, became the 1st Navajo Tribal
Park.
   (SSFC, 10/6/02, p.C15)
1958Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
c1960Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1960-1972Â Â Â J. Bracken Lee (1899-1996) was the mayor
of Salt Lake City.
   (SFC, 10/22/96, p.A18)
1962-1973Â Â Â In Utah the Deseret Test Center
conducted 46 chemical warfare exercises at Fort Douglas.
   (SFC, 11/1/02, p.A3)
1968Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1969Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1970Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1971Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1972Â Â Â Â Â Â 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.)
1972Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 10, An Earth-grazing
meteoroid grazed the atmosphere above Canada. It entered the Earth's
atmosphere in daylight over Utah.
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Daylight_1972_Fireball)
1972Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1972-1988Â Â Â The Great Salt Lake of Utah roughly
doubled in size over this period.
   (NH, 9/97, p.16)
1974Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1974Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 2, Nancy Wilcox,
believed to have been a victim of the serial killer Ted Bundy
(d.1989), disappeared in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  Â
(www.charleyproject.org/cases/w/wilcox_nancy.html)
1974Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 31, Suspected Bundy
victim Laura Aime disappeared in Utah.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy)
1974Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 8, Debi Kent
disappeared in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was later identified as
another victim of Theodore “Ted” Bundy (1946-1989), the Green River
Murderer, who would be officially convicted of killing 36 women and
executed on January 24, 1989, in Florida.
   (www.crimelibrary.com/bundy/attack.htm)
1975Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1975Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1976Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 2, In Utah Orrin Hatch
defeated 18-year incumbent Senator Frank Moss.
   (SFC, 2/3/03, p.B4)
1976Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 10, The Utah Supreme
Court gave the go-ahead for convicted murderer Gary Gilmore to be
executed, according to his wishes. The sentence was carried out the
following January.
   (AP, 11/10/97)
1976Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1976Â Â Â Â Â Â 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.
Congressional legislation established rules for the BLM’s management
of federal land.Â
   (Econ, 8/23/03, p.26)(Econ, 4/26/14, p.33)
1976Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1977Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 17, Gary Gilmore
(b.1940), convicted for two murders he committed in Utah, was shot
by a firing squad at Utah State Prison in the first US execution in
a decade. In 1979 Norman Mailer authored his Pulitzer Prize winning
book: “The Executioner’s Song,” the story of Gary Gilmore.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gilmore)(AP,
1/17/98)(Econ, 11/17/07, p.103)0
1978Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 8, Utah 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 lay
priesthood, going on missions or getting married in temples. Prophet
Spencer Kimball opened the Mormon priesthood to blacks.
   (http://tinyurl.com/y8ts747g)(SFC, 6/2/18, p.A7)
1978Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 11, Joseph Freeman Jr.
became the 1st black priest in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints.
  Â
(www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1979/4/1979_4_110.shtml)
1978Â Â Â Â Â Â 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))
1978Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1979Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1979Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
Constitution.
   (AP, 12/5/99)
1980Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 30, The Mormon Church
celebrated its 150th anniversary in Salt Lake City, Utah.
   (HN, 3/30/98)
1980Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1980Â Â Â Â Â Â Robert Redford established
the Sundance Resort and Institute in Provo Canyon to support
independent filmmaking and playwriting.
   (SFEC, 8/16/98, Par p.2)
1981Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 4, A jury in Salt Lake
City convicted Joseph Paul Franklin, an avowed racist, of violating
the civil rights of two black men who were shot to death.
   (AP, 3/4/01)
1981Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1981Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1982Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1982Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1983Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1984Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1984Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1984Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1985Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 2, Ronnie Gardner shot
and killed Utah attorney Michael Burdell during an escape attempt at
the Metropolitan Hall of Justice in Salt Lake City. Gardner was
convicted of murder and sentenced to death. In 2010 Gardner (49)
chose to die by firing squad, an option which was removed by state
lawmakers in 2004, but still available to him.
   (SFC, 4/24/10, p.A5)
1985Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1987Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1988Â Â Â Â Â Â 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, Addam Swapp.
   (AP, 1/28/98)
1989Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1989Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1990Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 2, Brian Watkins (22),
a tourist from Utah, was stabbed in the heart and died in NYC while
defending his family from muggers. Seven young men were convicted in
the case. In 2015 a judge overturned the conviction of Johnny
Hincapie (43) and ordered a new trial. Hincapie had testified that a
detective beat him to get a signed confession.
  Â
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=60727659)(Econ,
12/8/12, p.31)(SFC, 10/7/15, p.A7)
1991Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 18, Three young people
were crushed to death at an AC-DC concert in Salt Lake City.
   (AP, 1/18/01)
1991Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1994Â Â Â Â Â Â May 30, Mormon Church
president Ezra Taft Benson died in Salt Lake City at age 94.
   (AP, 5/30/99)
1995Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 3, Howard Hunter (87),
US leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), died.
   (SC, 3/3/02)
1995Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1995Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1995Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 11, Utah Congresswoman
Enid Greene Waldholtz held an emotional news conference in which she
publicly addressed the scandal surrounding her personal and campaign
finances and blamed the mess on her estranged husband, Joe.
   (AP, 12/11/00)
1995Â Â Â Â Â Â The Slamdance Film
Festival was founded by Peter Baxter as an alternative to the
Sundance Film Festival.
   (SFC, 2/1/99, p.E1)
1995Â Â Â Â Â Â Frank Curtis, a Mormon
brother, died. He had been convicted of criminal sex abuse. In his
1998 lawsuit filed in Multnomah County, Oregon, Jeremiah Scott,
accused the church of hiding the fact that Curtis, one of its high
priests, was a pedophile. Curtis was excommunicated from the church
in 1983 in Pennsylvania but was rebaptized in 1984 in Michigan. In
1988, he joined the Brentwood Ward in Portland. In 2011 Lisa Davis
authored “The Sins of Brother Curtis: A Story of Betrayal,
Conviction, and the Mormon Church.
   (SSFC, 3/20/11, p.G7)
1996Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 26, In Utah John
Albert Taylor (b.~1960) was executed by firing squad. He had been
sentenced to death for the 1988 rape and strangulation of
11-year-old Charla King and had then chosen the firing squad as the
method of execution.
   (SFC, 4/24/10,
p.A5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Albert_Taylor)
1996Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1996Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1996Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1996Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 unlawful sex in 1999.
   (SFC, 8/6/98, p.A11) (SFC, 6/4/99, p.A3)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 murder, was found in the Utah desert in 1999.
   (SFC, 6/9/98, p.A6)(SFC, 11/3/99, p.A7)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 10, In Utah Anna
Palmer (10) was stabbed to death in Salt Lake City. In 2010 DNA
evidence linked Matthew John Breck to her murder. Breck, serving
time in Idaho for a 2001 conviction of sodomy with a minor, was
extradited to Utah.
   (SSFC, 7/11/10,
p.A6)(http://missing87975.yuku.com/sreply/11770)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 15, In Salt Lake City,
Utah, Sergei Babarin (70) entered the Mormon Church's Family 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)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â May 24, The new Mormon
Church genealogical web site was unveiled and overloaded @
www.familysearch.org.
   (SFC, 5/25/99, p.A3)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 11, A tornado hit
downtown Salt Lake City killing one person and injuring over a
hundred.
   (SFC, 8/12/99, p.A1)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Richard and Joan Ostling
authored “Mormon America: The Power and the Promise.”
   (www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/charles/mormonsyl.htm)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â The Salt Lake Tribune
became an asset of ATT following the ATT merger with
Tele-Communications Inc.
   (WSJ, 10/6/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb, Sheldon Johnson found
200-million-year-old dinosaur footprints in his backyard in St.
George.
   (SFC, 4/22/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â The 100th Mormon temple
was dedicated in Belmont, Mass.
   (NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 4, Ed Roth (“Big
Daddy”) died at age 69 in Manti. He was one of the original creators
of customized cars and the creator of the Rat Fink logo.
   (SFC, 4/7/01, p.A21)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 13, In Utah Amtrak’s
California Zephyr train crashed into a freight train near the Nevada
border. 6 people were injured.
   (SFC, 9/14/01, p.A23)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 14, Dennis Peron,
California’s godfather of medical marijuana, was arrested in Cedar
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)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 11, 69 airport workers
in SLC were charged with falsifying job and security applications.
   (WSJ, 12/12/01, p.A1)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â The 775-room Grand America
Hotel, owned by billionaire Earl Holding (74), was completed after 5
years of construction.
   (WSJ, 1/10/02, p.A1)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â The 122,000 sq.-foot North
American Museum of Ancient Life (NAMAL) opened in Lehi, south of
SLC.
   (SSFC, 2/10/02, p.C10)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â A dinosaur site was
discovered in south central Utah near the town of Green River.
   (SFC, 5/5/05, p.A2)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 being 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)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 certain way" before she voted to give the
gold medal to the Russians in pairs.
   (AP, 2/13/03)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 5, Elizabeth Ann Smart
(14) was kidnapped at gunpoint from her home in Salt Lake City. She
was found Mar 12, 2003, with kidnapper Brian David Mitchell and his
wife Wanda Eileen Barzee. In 2005 a judge found Mitchell mentally
incompetent to stand trial. In 2009 Barzee (64) pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to 15 years in prison. She also agreed to testify
against her husband. In 2010 a federal jury found Mitchell guilty of
kidnapping and forcing sex on her for 9 months. On May 25, 2011, a
federal judge sentenced Brian David Mitchell to life in prison.
Barzee was scheduled to be freed on Sept. 19, 2018.
   (SFC, 6/7/02, p.A3)(SFC, 3/13/03, p.1)(SFC,
7/27/05, p.A3)(SFC, 11/17/09, p.A7)(SFC, 12/11/10, p.A4)(SFC,
5/26/11, p.A11)(SFC, 9/12/18, p.A5)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â 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. Tokhtakhounov 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)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â In Utah Waldo Wilcox
deeded his Range Creek Canyon lands to the public for $2.5 million
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)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 5, It was reported
that genealogical research in Utah identified a gene that causes
depression.
   (WSJ, 2/5/03, p.A1)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 18, In Salt Lake City,
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee were charged with aggravated
kidnapping, sexual assault and burglary in the abduction of
Elizabeth Ann Smart, who was found with them six days earlier.
   (AP, 3/18/08)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â May 1, In Utah climber
Aron Ralston (27) amputated his own arm to escape from a canyon
where he was pinned by a boulder.
   (SFC, 5/2/03, p.A18)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 11, Pres. Bush named
Mike Leavitt, Republican governor of Utah, to head the EPA.
   (SFC, 8/11/03, p.A1)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 28, The US Senate
approved Utah's Gov. Mike Leavitt as head of the EPA.
   (SFC, 10/29/03, p.A3)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 26, An avalanche in
Provo Canyon, Utah, left 3 snowboarders dead.
   (SFC, 12/27/03, p.A5)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â An oil field, estimated at
a billion barrels, was discovered in Utah’s Sevier County.
   (Econ, 8/20/05, p.27)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 19, Gov. Walker
expressed optimism in Utah's economy. She submitted an $8 billion
budget that included 3.4% increased spending.
   (USAT, 1/20/04, p.12A)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 2, Police in Salt Lake
City arrested Mark Hacking, whose wife, Lori, had disappeared, on a
charge of aggravated murder. On October 1, 2004, searchers found
human remains 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)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 2, Jon Huntsman (R)
was elected governor of Utah.
   (SFC, 11/4/04, p.A18)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 2, Some 66% of Utah
voters approved Amendment 3 to the state constitution and in effect
banned same-sex marriage.
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Constitutional_Amendment_3)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â The Utah Legislature
passed a law requiring the Univ. of Utah to lift a ban against
students and employees carrying firearms.
   (WSJ, 5/24/04, p.A1)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Utah banned execution by
firing squad. This did not apply to past cases and a man was
executed by firing squad in 2010.
   (Econ., 3/21/15, p.23)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 14, In Park City,
Utah, 5 people were feared buried by a massive avalanche.
   (AP, 1/15/05)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 Fundamentalist 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)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 20, In Salt Lake City
a 2-year-old boy died from kidney failure due to an E. coli
infection attributed to spinach.
   (SFC, 10/6/06, p.A3)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 11, In Utah Michelle
MacNeill (50) died following cosmetic surgery. In 2013 her husband,
Dr. Martin MacNeill (57), was convicted of knocking her out with
drugs and leaving her to die in a tub.
   (SSFC, 11/10/13,
p.A11)(http://tinyurl.com/knf5ao3)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 25, In Utah police
recaptured Curtis Allgier (27) after he wrested a gun from a
corrections officer Stephen Anderson, killed him and fled in a
stolen SUV.
   (SFC, 6/26/07, p.A4)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
evacuations 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)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â 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. In 2012 mine operator Genwal Resources Inc. agreed to
plead guilty to two misdemeanor criminal charges and pay a $500,000
fine.
   (AP, 8/17/07)(AP, 8/16/08)(SFC, 3/10/12, p.A6)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 25, Warren Jeffs, the
leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group, was convicted 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)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 20, In Utah polygamist
leader Warren Jeffs, self-proclaimed prophet of a breakaway Mormon
sect, was sentenced to 10 years to life in prison for forcing a
14-year-old to marry her first cousin. In 2010 the Utah Supreme
Court reversed the convictions of Jeffs and ordered a new trial
saying a jury received incorrect instructions. On April 7, 2011, a
federal judge handed control of a $114 million communal land trust
back to the leaders of Jeff’s polygamous church. Courts had seized
control of the trust in 2005.
   (Reuters, 11/21/07)(SFC, 7/28/10, p.A4)(SFC,
4/9/11, p.A5)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 surgical mask.
   (WSJ, 1/26/08, p.A8)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 26, The film “Frozen
River,” directed by Courtney Hunt, won first prize at the Sundance
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)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug, Utah began a trial
4-day work week for about 17,000 of the state's 24,000
executive-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. In Sep, 2011,
the 4-day week program ended after less money was saved than hoped.
Residents has also complained about not having access to services on
Fridays.
   (AP, 7/11/09)(http://tinyurl.com/3ks2a9b)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 23, In Utah a small
plane crashed and burned shortly after takeoff from Canyonlands
Field airport. All 10 aboard, including 9 employees of a Cedar City
dermatology company, who traveled to remote areas to provide medical
treatments.
   (SSFC, 8/24/08, p.A2)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â 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.
  Â
(www.statescape.com/SessionUpdates/SessionUpdates.asp)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â In Utah scientists
discovered the fossils of a predator dinosaur that lived about 100
million years ago. In 2013 it was named Siats meekerorum, and said
to be related to allosauroids.
   (SFC, 11/23/13, p.A10)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 25, US Interior Sec.
Ken Salazar scrapped leases, created under the Bush administration,
on federal land for oil-shale development in Colorado, Utah and
Wyoming.
   (AP, 2/26/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 9, Utah Gov. Jon
Huntsman and state house and senate leaders agreed to eliminate the
state’s 40-year-old private club system in an effort to boost
tourism.
   (SFC, 3/10/09, p.A5)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â May 12, In Utah partitions
known as “Zion curtains” began coming down as a new law came into
effect allowing bartenders to serve patrons directly over the bar.
This ended Utah’s requirement that people who wanted a drink join a
“private club.”
   (SFC, 5/13/09, p.A8)(Economist, 9/8/12, p.66)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 diplomatic post of US ambassador to China.
   (AP, 5/16/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 10, NASA made a
successful first test of its Ares I rocket at promontory, Utah. It
was created as part of a plan to return to the moon, but a recent
panel said there isn’t enough money for the moon project.
   (SFC, 9/11/09, p.A13)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 18, It was reported
that some 20-50 thousands birds have died along the shore of Utah’s
Great Salt Lake so far this year from avian botulism.
   (SFC, 9/18/09, p.A21)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 10, Utah’s Mormon
church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights
legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for
Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing
and employment.
   (AP, 11/11/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 7, In Utah Susan
Powell (28) was last seen at her West Valley City home as her
husband, Josh Powell, took their two boys (ages 2 and 4) on a
camping trip. Powell later claimed she ran off with another man. In
2012 authorities found her blood in the family home and a
hand-written note expressing fear about her husband.
   (SSFC, 12/27/09, p.A10)(SFC, 9/19/11, p.A4)(SFC,
3/31/12, p.A5)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 31, In St. George,
Utah, a trailer at an RV park containing some 19 pet pythons caught
fire. 11 of the snakes survived.
   (SFC, 1/2/10, p.A4)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â A team led by Neal Patwari
and Joey Wilson of the Univ. of Utah came up with a way to peer
through the walls of a building using a network of low cost little
radios, which are used to look for motion as their signals are
blocked by a moving object, such as a person.
   (Econ, 10/17/09, p.96)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Paleontologists in Utah
discovered a site brimming with fossils dating back some 210 million
years.
   (SFC, 10/17/15, p.A4)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 5, In Utah deputy
sheriff Josie Greathouse Fox was killed following a traffic stop in
Delta. Police searched for suspect Roberto Miramontes Roman, who had
just sold drugs to a relative of the slain officer.
   (SFC, 1/6/10, p.A4)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 9, Walter Fredrick
Morrison (90), the man credited with inventing the Frisbee, died at
his home in Monroe, Utah. Morrison began manufacturing his flying
discs in 1948. He sold the production and manufacturing rights to
his "Pluto Platter" in 1957. The plastic flying disc was later
renamed the "Frisbee," with sales surpassing 200 million discs.
   (AP, 2/11/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â May 8, In Utah GOP
delegates voted to bar Sen. Bob Bennett (76) from seeking a fourth
term, making him the first congressional incumbent to be ousted this
year and demonstrates the challenges candidates face from the right
in 2010.
   (AP, 5/9/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â May 28, Gary Coleman
(b.1968), the child star from television show "Diff'rent Strokes"
(1978-1986), died in Provo, Utah.
   (AP, 5/29/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 10, A judge in the US
District Court for the District of Utah granted Novell's request for
declaratory judgment and ruled against SCO's claims of slander and
breach of implied covenant of good faith. He also said that SCO is
obligated to recognize Novell's waiver of SCO's claims against IBM
and other companies that use Linux. He ordered the case closed.
   (PCWorld, 6/11/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 11, In Salt Lake City
an underground pipeline broke sending oil into a creek that
ultimately flows into the Great Salt Lake. The pipeline was shut off
the next day as the 21,000 gallon spill coated some 300 birds at
area creeks. Chevron said it would pay for cleanup.
   (SFC, 6/14/10, p.A6)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 18, In Utah death row
inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner (49), who had used a gun to fatally shoot
two men, suffered the same fate as he was executed by a team of
marksmen, the first time Utah used the firing squad to carry out a
death sentence in 14 years.
   (AP, 6/18/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 26, In Utah 5 young
people from Ogden, aged 16-22, were killed as they tried to pass
another vehicle while returning from a camping trip.
   (SSFC, 6/27/10, p.A8)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 12, In Utah a list of
over 1,300 alleged illegal immigrants living in the state was
received by law enforcement and politicians around the state. On Jul
16 the ACLU of Utah commended the swift action of Governor Gary
Herbert and Attorney General Mark Shurtleff in responding to the
legitimate public outcry and widespread demand that they investigate
the extraordinary breach of privacy by state employees, which became
publicly known earlier this week. 2 women, working for the state’s
main welfare agency, had recently sent the stolen names, addresses,
Social Security numbers - and even the due dates of expectant
mothers - of some 1,300 mostly Latino people whom they suspected of
being in the state illegally, to newspapers along with a letter
urging their immediate deportation.
   (http://tinyurl.com/2vjl89x0)(Econ, 8/7/10,
p.25)(http://tinyurl.com/334kjoh)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 9, In USA a tour bus
crash killed 3 Japanese tourists. Driver Yasushi Mikuni (26) was
later charged with 10 felony counts of negligent driving and one
misdemeanor charge of having marijuana residue in his system.
   (SFC, 9/23/10, p.A11)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 27, Scott Curley (23)
shot and killed Utah Kane county Deputy Brian Harris (41) following
an attempted robbery. Harris was shot near Fredonia, just south of
the Utah border. Curley escaped into the desert area along the
Utah-Arizona border. Curley was captured on Aug 30 in Kanab, Utah.
   (SFC, 8/28/10, p.A5)(SFC, 8/31/10, p.A7)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 19, The Utah Army
National Guard ignited a fire at Camp Williams, about 30 miles south
of Salt Lake City, while practicing with a .50 caliber machine gun.
At least 3 homes were destroyed as the fire went out of control.
   (SFC, 9/21/10, p.A5)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 9, In southern Utah a
small plane crashed and killed 2 National park Service law
enforcement agents in the Dixie National Forest.
   (SSFC, 10/10/10, p.A10)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, In Utah
first-degree felony count of sodomy on a child and two second-degree
felony counts of sexual abuse of a child were filed against Keith
Brown (55), father of the 5 Browns classical piano group. The Brown
children severed their professional relationship with their father
in October of 2008.
   (AP, 2/17/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 29, The state of Utah
filed a lawsuit against the federal government over an Obama
administration plan to make millions of acres of undeveloped land in
the West eligible for federal wilderness protection.
   (AP, 4/29/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 14, Former Utah
governor Jon Huntsman, announced that he will be a candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination. Huntsman, considered a moderate,
served as President Obama’s ambassador to China before resigning a
month ago, in preparation for his presidential run.
          Â
(AP, 6/14/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 30, The US Drug
Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced that they had arrested 7 men in
Utah, alleged members of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel. Cashes of
guns, cash and drugs were seized.
   (Econ, 9/24/11, p.40)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 10, In Utah Alexis
Rasmussen (16) went missing in North Ogden. She had been babysitting
for Eric and Dea Millerburg, who have since been arrested on
drug-related charges. Rasmussen’s body was found on Oct 18 in a
shallow grave in North Ogden.
   (SSFC, 10/23/11,
p.A11)(http://tinyurl.com/3lsozqn)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 24, In Utah thousands
of people stripped to their underwear and ran through Salt Lake City
to protest what they called the "uptight" laws of Utah. Guiness
World Records later said 2,270 people participated breaking a
previous record of 550 set last year in Great Britain.
   (AP, 9/25/11)(SFC, 10/7/11, p.A6)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 27, In Utah Uta von
Schwedler (49) was found dead in her bathtub in Salt Lake City. On
March 12, 2015 her ex-husband, pediatrician John Brickman Wall (51),
was convicted of her murder.
   (http://tinyurl.com/poayapn)(SFC, 3/14/15, p.A7)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 12, In Utah some
4000-5000 migratory birds, eared grebes, were killed or injured
after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot, football fields
and other snow-covered areas of southern Utah for bodies of water
and plummeting to the ground in what one state wildlife expert
called the worst mass bird crash she'd ever seen. A high-profile
crash in Arkansas in January killed about 4,500 birds, mainly
red-winged blackbirds.
   (AP, 12/14/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 19, Fierce winds and
snow that caused fatal road accidents and shuttered highways in
Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas and Utah. The storm was blamed
for at least six deaths.
   (AP, 12/20/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 28, Two out-of-state
doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions were
arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder. Dr. Steven
Brigham, of Voorhees, N.J., was taken into custody and held in the
Camden County jail. Authorities also arrested Dr. Nicola Riley in
Salt Lake City. Each was awaiting an extradition hearing.
   (AP, 12/31/11)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 4, In Utah Army
veteran Matthew David Stewart killed a police officer and wounded 5
others as authorities descended on his home in a marijuana raid.
   (http://tinyurl.com/paqc29c)(SFC, 5/25/13, p.A6)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 18, The US Army
Deseret Chemical Depot in Utah burned its last hard weapons
containing mustard gas. This marked the destruction of about 90% of
its aging chemical weapons, accumulated during the Cold War.
   (SFC, 1/19/12, p.A6)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 19, Top Canadian
freestyle skier Sarah Burke (29), an early gold medal favorite ahead
of the 2014 Olympics, died at a Utah hospital from injuries she
suffered in a training fall.
   (Reuters, 1/19/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 5, Josh Powell, under
investigation for the 2009 disappearance in Utah of his wife, Susan
Powell, was killed with his two sons, Charles (7) and Braden (5), in
a fire at his home in Graham, Washington. Police said he set the
fire intentionally just after receiving his sons for what was to be
a supervised visit.
   (SFC, 2/6/12, p.A6)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 23, Utah Gov. Gary
Herbert signed a bill demanding that the federal government
relinquish control of public lands in the state by 2014.
   (SFC, 3/24/12, p.A7)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â May 26, In southern Utah a
small Cessna plane was found crashed some 300 feet from the runway
of the municipal airport at St. George. 4 people were killed.
   (SFC, 5/28/12, p.A8)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 3, A Lockheed P2V
aerial firefighter crashed in Utah killing 2 pilots. Another P2V,
fighting a wildfire south of Reno, crash-landed at Minden-Tahoe
Airport.
   (SFC, 6/4/12, p.A8)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 13, Colorado police
found the body of Christina Cornejo (30) in Colorado Springs. She
had been stabbed multiple times. On July 17 Suspect and boyfriend
Brian Hedglin (40) was found dead having shot himself in the head
after he crashed a plane at Utah’s St. George Municipal Airport.
   (SFC, 7/18/12, p.A8)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 16, Stephen R. Covey
(79), Utah-based motivational speaker and author of the best-selling
"The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" (1989), died in Idaho
Falls.
   (AP, 7/16/12)(Econ, 7/21/12, p.58)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â In Utah the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints clarified that church health
practices do not prevent members from drinking caffeinated soft
drinks.
   (SFC, 9/22/17 p.A5)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 12, Three men from
Utah died when their plane went down near Paris, Texas.
   (SFC, 1/14/13, p.A5)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 18, In Utah Willard
Bay State Park officials closed down the facility on the
northeastern edge of the Great Salt Lake and evacuated two campers
and the park manager’s family after around 4,200 to 6,300 gallons of
diesel fuel leaked from the pipeline just north of the park.
  Â
(www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56030315-78/bay-lake-spill-salt.html.csp)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 2, In Utah survivalist
Troy James Knapp (45) was arrested after eluded authorities for 6
years. He had moved from cabin to cabin across the Utah mountains,
taking food and weapons and leaving notes to brag about it.
   (AP, 4/3/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â May 4, In Utah soccer
referee Ricardo Portillo (46) died following an April 27 assault by
teen-age player (17). On May 8 the teen was charged with homicide by
assault.
   (SFC, 5/9/13, p.A6)(http://tinyurl.com/cqgz2xl)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â May 24, In Utah Army
veteran Matthew David Stewart (39) charged with killing a police
officer on Jan 4, 2012, was found dead hanging from a bedsheet in
his cell in Ogden.
   (SFC, 5/25/13, p.A6)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 5, Thomas Momson, head
of the Mormon Church, said that worldwide membership in the Church
of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints has reached 15 million.
   (SSFC, 10/6/13, p.A10)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 11, Two Utah Boy Scout
leaders pushed a large rock off a rock formation at Goblin Valley
State Park. Glenn Taylor and Dave Hall said it was loose and feared
it was dangerous. They soon faced possible criminal charges and were
removed from their posts a Boy Scout leaders.
   (SFC, 10/22/13, p.A6)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 6, Scientists in Utah
unveiled the bones of a dinosaur discovered in 2009. It was named
Lythronax argestes, or "king of gore," for its large teeth and
apparent dominance as a predator. They dated it to about 80 million
BC.
   (Reuters, 11/7/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 13, A US federal judge
struck down parts of Utah’s anti-polygamy law as unconstitutional.
Judge Clark Waddoups ruled that part of the state law prohibiting
cohabitation violated the First amendment. He left standing the
state’s ability to prohibit multiple marriages.
   (SSFC, 12/15/13, p.A13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 20, A US federal judge
scrapped Utah’s ban on same-sex marriages. The ban was approved by
66% of state voters in 2004.
   (Econ, 1/4/14, p.21)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 24, A US federal
appeals court ruled that same-sex marriages can continue in Utah,
denying a request from the state to halt them.
   (SFC, 12/25/13, p.A10)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 31, Utah officials
said an unprecedented wintertime outbreak of West Nile virus has
killed more than two dozen bald eagles in the state and thousands of
water birds around the Great Salt Lake.
   (Reuters, 12/31/13)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 8, The Utah governor’s
office said that the state will not recognize more than 1,000
same-sex marriages performed over the past two weeks as it appeals a
legal ruling that had overturned the state’s ban on such unions.
   (SFC, 1/9/14, p.A4)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 10, The US Justice
Dept. said it would recognize as lawful the marriages of 1,300
same-sex couple in Utah, even though the state is largely refusing
to do so.
   (SFC, 1/11/14, p.A6)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 16, In Utah 5 people
were found dead after co-workers reported that police officer Joshua
Boren (34) failed to show up for his shift at the Lindon Police
Dept. Boren had shot and killed his wife, mother-in-law and two
children before killing himself. Kelly Boren had just confronted her
husband about raping her and told him their marriage was over.
   (SFC, 1/18/14, p.A4)(AP, 7/8/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 25, In Utah some 4,000
protesters gathered in Salt lake City to protests against poor air
quality.
   (Econ, 2/1/14, p.24)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 30, In Utah Jose Angel
Garcia-Jauregui (27) shot and killed Sheriff’s Sgt. Cory Wride
following a 50-mile chase near Eagle Mountain. A 2nd deputy was
wounded. Garcia was also wounded and died the next day. Garcia’s
girlfriend Meagan Grunwald (17) survived the shootout and faced
nearly a dozen charges in the crime rampage. In April she pleaded
innocent to all charges. On May 9, 2015, Grunwald was convicted and
faced up to life in prison.
   (SFC, 2/1/14, p.A6)(SFC, 5/13/14, p.A5)(AP,
5/9/15)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 25, Utah’s Gov. Gary
Herbert signed a law that allows parents of children with severe
epilepsy to obtain marijuana extract to help with seizures.
   (SFC, 3/26/14, p.A6)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 10, In Utah Iron
County workers accompanied by a US Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
staffer set up the first in a series of metal corrals designed to
trap and hold the horses on private land abutting the federal range
until they can be moved to BLM facilities for adoption. Cattle
ranchers blamed the protected wild horses for destroying vegetation
crucial to ranchers who pay to graze their cattle on the land.
   (Reuters, 4/12/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 13, In Utah Megan
Huntsman (39) was arrested after police reported tiny bodies stuffed
into separate cardboard boxes in the garage of her former home in
Pleasant Grove. She had 7 babies between 1996 and 2006. Estranged
husband Darren West discovered the bodies a day earlier while
cleaning out the garage. On April 28 she was charged with 6 counts
of 1st degree murder. On April 20, 2015, Huntsman was sentenced to
at least 30 years in prison.
   (SFC, 4/14/14, p.A8)(SFC, 4/15/14, p.A6)(SFC,
4/21/15, p.A5)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â May 16, In Utah 4
undocumented immigrants from Mexico and El Salvador were killed when
a crowded van crashed on Interstate 70. Agents detained three of
four men who survived the crash and continued to search for a woman
who fled the scene.
   (AP, 5/21/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 5, Utah’s Wildlife
Board voted 3-2 to hold its first ever crow hunt this fall as
authorities try to contain the noise and mess from a population of
the big, black birds that officials say has tripled over the last 12
years. Crows are protected by the US Fish and Wildlife Service under
the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty, but about 45 states allow them to be
hunted.
   (Reuters, 6/6/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 15, In Utah John
Swallow (51) and Mark Shurtleff (56), both former state attorneys
general, were arrested on a battery of bribery charges.
   (SFC, 7/16/14, p.A6)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 11, Utah police in
Saratoga Springs shot and killed Darrien Hunt (22), an African
American, as he ran away after swinging a samurai-style sword that
was part of his Japanese anime costume.
   (SFC, 10/30/14, p.A6)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 19, A Utah state judge
sentenced Martin MacNeill (58), a former doctor, to serve at least
17 years in prison on chrages related to the 2007 death of his wife.
   (SFC, 9/20/14, p.A10)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 27, In Utah the bodies
of two parents and three of their children were found in a home in
Springfield. Cause of death was yet unknown.
   (SFC, 9/29/14, p.A6)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 29, In Utah former FBI
agent Robert Lustyik Jr. (52) pleaded guilty to charges that he
derailed an investigation into military contract fraud by making a
suspect appear to be a key counterintelligence source.
   (AFP, 9/30/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 4, In Utah the Mormon
church opened its biannual conference bringing some 100,000 church
members to Salt Lake City to listen to words of guidance and
inspiration from the faith's leaders. Residents from 64 countries
were expected during the two-day conference.
   (AP, 10/4/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 6, The US Supreme
Court denied review of cases in five states that had limited
marriage to opposite sex couples. This in effect granted equal
marriage rights to gays and lesbians in Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah,
Virginia and Wisconsin.
   (SFC, 10/7/14, p.A1)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 16, Lena Jacobs Coombs
(48), Utah-based former marketing director for Symantec, an
anti-virus software maker, pleaded guilty to embezzling over $1
million to fund personal expenses and vacations. On April 22, 2015,
Coombs was sentenced to three years in prison. She was also ordered
to pay $915,412 in restitution.
   (SFC, 12/18/14, p.C5)(SFC, 4/24/15, p.C3)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Nikola Motor Company was
founded in Salt Lake City, Utah, to make electric and hydrogen
powered cars. The company went public in June, 2020.
  Â
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Corporation)(Econ., 9/19/20,
p.60)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 10, John Dehlin (45),
a Mormon who gained notoriety over the past decade for running a
website that offers doubting Latter-day Saints a forum to chat,
announced that Utah church leaders have kicked him out of the faith
for apostasy.
   (SFC, 2/11/15, p.A6)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 10, Utah’s legislature
passed a law to bring back guns for executing those on death row.
   (Econ., 3/21/15, p.23)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 23, Utah Gov. Gary
Herbert gave his stamp of approval to a law that brings back the
firing squad in the only state that has used it in the past 40
years.
   (AP, 3/24/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 24, Google announced
that it would be bringing Google Fiber to Salt Lake City, which
actually will make it the second city in Utah to have access to the
service. Google first announced it was bringing Fiber to Provo, Utah
back in 2013.
   (BGR News, 3/25/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 1, Episcopalians,
meeting in Salt Lake at the Episcopal General Convention, voted to
allow religious weddings for same-sex couples.
   (SFC, 7/2/15, p.A7)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 15, In Utah 12 people
were killed after flash floods struck the town of Hildale overnight.
Another 7 people were killed in nearby Zion national Park.
   (AFP, 9/15/15)(SFC, 9/16/15, p.A7)(SFC, 9/18/15,
p.A6)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 20, Federal lawyers
made opening statements in a case targeting the polygamous towns of
Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, where the dominant
religion is the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints.
   (SFC, 1/21/16, p.A12)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 28, Utah Gov. Gary
Herbert signed legislation requiring doctors to give anesthesia to
women having an abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy or later, based on
the premise that a fetus can feel pain at that point.
   (SFC, 3/29/16, p.A5)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 19, The US attorney’s
office issued a warrant for polygamous sect leader Lyle Jeffs, who
fled home confinement in Salt Lake City pending trial on charges in
a multimillion-dollar food stamp fraud scheme.
   (SFC, 6/21/16, p.A6)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun, In Utah an elderly
man infected with the Zika virus died late this month. He was the
first Zika-infected person to die in the continental US. A relative
who cared for the man was soon diagnosed with the virus.
   (SFC, 7/19/16, p.A4)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep, In Utah a new Salt
Lake City atheist group, the Sunday Assembly, began offering
non-believers a church-like service that offers music, readings and
community for those who don't belong to the state's dominant
religion, Mormonism, or other faith groups. There's now more than 70
Sunday Assemblies in the US and around the world.
   (AP, 12/26/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 18, In Utah an air
ambulance crashed late today in Elko, killing all three crew members
and a patient aboard.
   (SSFC, 11/20/16, p.A10)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 20, Utah’s Deseret
News reported that federal agents last week arrested two Utah
sisters accused of using their money order businesses in the Salt
Lake City area to launder an estimated $1 million for Mexican drug
traffickers.
   (AP, 12/20/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 28, Pres. Obama
designated two new national monuments. The Bears Ears National
Monument in Utah encompassed 300,000 acres. Gold Butte National
Monument in Nevada protected 1.35 million acres.
   (SFC, 12/29/16, p.A5)(Econ, 1/14/17, p.27)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 13, The US
Environmental Protection Agency denied $1.2 billion in claims for
economic losses stemming from a 2015 toxic wastewater spill
accidentally triggered by the agency at a defunct Colorado mine,
that fouled waterways in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
   (AP, 1/13/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 21, A legal officer at
Cambodia's Customs Department said Cambodia has suspended the export
of human breast milk by Utah-based Ambrosia Labs Ltd., a business
pioneered last year by former Mormon missionary Ryan Newell. On
March 28 the ban was made permanent.
   (AP, 3/21/17)(AP, 3/28/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 23, Utah’s Rep. Gov.
Gary Herbert said he plans to approve a measure lowering the state’s
blood alcohol limit to .05% from .08%.
   (SFC, 3/24/17, p.A6)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 21, In Utah Brigham
Young Univ., owned by the Mormon church, ended a six-decade ban on
caffeinated soft drinks on campus.
   (SFC, 9/22/17 p.A5)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 10, Utah police
Officer Jeff Payne was fired after being seen on video roughly
handcuffing Nurse Alex Wubbels and dragging her from a hospital
because she refused to allow a blood draw per hospital policy. Nurse
Wubbels later reached a $500,000 settlement with Salt Lake City and
the university that runs the hospital.
   (SFC, 10/11/17, p.A7)(SFC, 11/1/17, p.A5)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 27, US Pres. Donald
Trump said he is approving the recommendation of Interior Sec. Ryan
Zinke to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante national
monuments in Utah along with Nevada’s Gold Butte and Oregon’s
Cascade-Siskiyou.
   (SFC, 10/28/17, p.A4)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 30, In Utah Chinese
student Chen Wei Guo was killed in a fatal carjacking near the Univ.
of Utah late today, causing a campus-wide lockdown as police
continue to search for suspected gunman Austin Boutain (24).
   (AP, 10/31/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 4, US President Donald
Trump visited Utah to announce big cuts to the state's sprawling
wilderness national monuments. Bears Ears National Monument will
shrink to 220,000 acres from 1.35 million, and Grand Staircase
Escalante will be cut to about half its current size. The move
triggered legal challenges from tribes and environmental groups.
   (Reuters, 12/4/17)(SFC, 12/5/17, p.A6)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 16, In Utah the Mormon
church appointed Russell Nelson (93), a former heart surgeon, as its
new president.
   (SFC, 1/17/18, p.A4)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Canadian outdoor
outfitter Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) said it will stop selling
outdoor sports items made by brands owned by Utah-based Vista
Outdoor that also sells assault-style rifles.
   (AFP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 20, The US Department
of Interior auctioned off more than 51,000 acres (21,000 hectares)
in southeastern Utah for oil and gas development, over objections
from conservationists.
   (Reuters, 3/20/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 31, Utah's Mormon
church made history and brought diversity to its leadership panel by
selecting its first Latin American apostle and first apostle of
Asian ancestry to help set church policy and oversee the faith's
business interests.
   (SSFC, 4/1/18, p.A8)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â May 11, In Utah a Tesla
sedan rear-ended a Fire Dept. truck in South Jordan without breaking
before impact. It was unclear if the car's autopilot feature was
engaged.
   (SFC, 5/14/18, p.A4)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 20, In Utah
10-month-old Alex Hidalgo Jr. was stabbed multiple times and found
covered in blood in a garbage can. Alex Hidalgo (37) of Ogden was
arrested the next day and charged with aggravated murder and
obstruction of justice.
   (SFC, 7/23/18, p.A4)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul, The US federal Bureau
of land management began rounding up wild horses in Nevada and Utah
as drought threatened their livelihood. Volunteers in Arizona and
Colorado were said to be hauling food and water to dried up grazing
grounds. The region was home to some 67,000 wild horses.
   (SFC, 7/24/18, p.A10)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 13, In Utah Duane Youd
flew a small plane into his own house hours after being arrested and
released on bail for assaulting his wife. Youd died in the crash,
but his wife and child survived.
   (SFC, 8/14/18, p.A5)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 19, In Utah Wanda
Barzee (72), the woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart (14) in
2002 and stood by as the girl was sexually assaulted by her then
husband Brian David Mitchell, was released after serving 15 years in
prison.
   (SFC, 9/20/18, p.A4)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 4, In Utah the Mormon
church joined lawmakers, the governor and advocates to back a deal
that would legalize medical marijuana in the state.
   (SFC, 10/5/18, p.A7)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 22, In Utah a dump
truck crossed a highway median near Heber and collided with an
oncoming pickup truck, killing all six men in the pickup. Jamie Don
McKenzie (41), the driver of the truck, was booked on suspicion of
vehicular manslaughter. Prescription pills and open containers of
alcohol were found inside the truck.
   (SFC, 10/22/18, p.A6)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 3, In Afghanistan Maj.
Brent Taylor (39) was fatally shot by one of his Afghan trainees in
Kabul. Another US military member was wounded. Initial reports
indicated the attacker was immediately killed by other Afghan
Forces. In 2020 an Army report said Afghan commando Sgt. Asfar
Khan (20) had planned the killing for weeks. Taylor was the Utah
mayor of Ogden serving in the National Guard.
   (Reuters, 11/3/18)(AP, 11/5/18)(AP, 6/8/20)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 6, Voters in Utah
joined the growing number of US states to legalize medical
marijuana.
   (SSFC, 11/11/18, p.A8)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 10, In eastern Utah
two workers were electrocuted and a third injured when industrial
equipment at a potash mine touched a power line near Moab.
   (SFC, 11/12/18, p.A5)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 24, In Utah police
Officer David Romrell (31) died after he was intentionally struck by
a driver while responding to a burglary call in Salt Lake City. Car
driver Felix Anthony Calata was fatally shot by police and an
accomplice was arrested.
   (SFC, 11/26/18, p.A4)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 4, In Utah the Church
of the Latter Day Saints repealed rules unveiled in 2015 that banned
baptisms for children of gay parents and made gay marriage a sin
worthy of expulsion.
   (SFC, 4/5/19, p.A5)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 30, Sterling Van
Wagenen (71), a filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film festival,
pleaded guilty in Utah to sexual abuse of a child.
   (SFC, 5/1/19, p.A6)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â May 8, In Utah the Salt
Lake Tribune announced plans to become a nonprofit in an effort to
ensure long-term stability.
   (SFC, 5/9/19, p.A6)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 20, Univ. of Utah
student Mackenzie Lueck (23) was reported missing. On June 28 Ayoola
Ajayi (31) was arrested by a Salt Lake City SWAT team after burned
evidence was found at his home. Lueck's body was found on July 3 in
a canyon 80 miles from Salt Lake City. On July 10 Ajayi ws chrged
with murder and kidnapping.
   (SFC, 6/29/19, p.A6)(SFC, 7/6/19, p.A6)(SFC,
7/11/19, p.A6)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun, In Utah
investigations began to focus on white supremacist gangs including
Soldiers of Aryan Culture, Silent Aryan Warriors and Nobel Elect
Thugs, all with roots in the Utah prison system.
   (SFC, 10/19/20, p.A4)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 26, The US Bureau of
Land Management announced a plan to allow off-road vehicles access
to archaeologically sensitive land at Utah's Bears Ears National
Monument that houses sacred tribal sites.
   (AP, 7/26/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 30, Aaron Shamo (29)
of Utah was convicted of running a multimillion-dollar opioid ring
that sent hundreds of thousands of potentially deadly pills across
the country in a scheme that authorities said helped fuel the
nation's opioid epidemic. Prosecutors said Shamo bought the powerful
opioid fentanyl online from Chinese manufacturers, pressed it into
fake oxycodone pills and sold it on the dark web with the help of a
handful of friends.
   (AP, 8/30/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 20, In southern Utah a
tour bus crashed near Bryce Canyon National Park killing at least
four people.
   (SFC, 9/21/19, p.A5)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 24, Alex Whipple (22),
a Utah man who pleaded guilty to killing and sexually assaulting his
niece, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
Whipple killed Elizabeth "Lizzy" Shelley (5) on May 25, after his
sister let him spend the night at the family home.
   (AP, 9/25/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 6, It was reported
that Nevada Officials are testing dead animals and monitoring
migratory elk and deer at the state line with Utah for signs of
chronic wasting disease, a highly contagious and terminal disorder
that causes symptoms such as lack of fear of humans, lethargy and
emaciation.
   (AP, 10/6/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 9, It was reported
that the assessor of Arizona's Maricopa county has been indicted in
an adoption fraud case, accused of arranging for dozens of pregnant
women from the Marshall Islands to come to the US to give their
children up for adoption. Utah also has charged Maricopa County
Assessor Paul Petersen with 11 felony counts, including human
smuggling, sale of a child and communications fraud.
   (AP, 10/9/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 23, The Trump
administration said it will allow Medicaid expansion with a work
requirement in Utah, a decision that came despite courts taking a
dim view of the requirement in other states.
   (AP, 12/24/19)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 8, Republican Senators
Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky excoriated a briefing
from top Trump administration officials on the targeted drone strike
that led to the death of Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran's
elite Quds Force.
   (CBS News, 1/8/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 17, In Utah a boy
armed with a gun killed three children and a woman inside a home in
Grantsville, then accompanied a fifth victim to a hospital, where he
was arrested.
   (AP, 1/18/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 22, Utah became the US
19th state to ban the practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ
children.
   (SFC, 1/23/20, p.A6)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 27, Utah Sen. Mitt
Romney told reporters that he thinks new revelations from former
Trump national security adviser John Bolton will increase the number
of Republican senators who will vote in favor of calling at least
Bolton to testify in the Senate impeachment trial.
   (Reuters, 1/27/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 31, Utah Senator Mitt
Romney joined fellow moderate Susan Collins as the only ones among
the 53 Republican senators in the 100-seat chamber to support voting
for witnesses. This left Democrats still short of the US Senate
majority required and paving the way for Trump's swift acquittal.
   (Reuters, 1/31/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 15, It was reported
that the Bureau of Land Management has announced plans to fund
11,000 miles (17,703 km) of strategic fuel breaks in Idaho, Oregon,
Washington, California, Nevada and Utah in an effort to help control
wildfires.
   (AP, 2/15/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 6, Utah confirmed its
first coronavirus case.
   (Good Morning America, 3/7/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 16, In Utah gas
station owner Lev Dermen was found guilty by a jury on 10 counts
that included money laundering and mail fraud. Dermen and
polygamists Jacob and Isiah Kingston had filed false claims for over
$1 billion in refundable renewable fuel tax credits. Jacob Kingston
testified against Dermen at the trial. The Kingstons and two
other family members accepted plea deals this year.
   (https://tinyurl.com/cj3r3hm9)(SFC, 6/23/21,
p.B3)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 18, A 5.7-magnitude
earthquake shook Salt Lake City and its suburbs early today, sending
spooked residents fleeing their homes, knocking out power for tens
of thousands and closing the city's airport.
   (AP, 3/18/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 3, Utah's Zion
National Park was closed to the public to help prevent the spread of
the coronavirus.
   (SFC, 4/6/20, p.A4)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 28, In Utah a
left-leaning nonprofit group filed a price gouging complaint with
state regulators, arguing the $40 per pack drug was grossly
overpriced. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert had defended the state’s $800,000
purchase of 20,000 packets of hydroxychloroquine compounded with
zinc, but later ordered an investigation of a no-bid contract with a
local company that had been promoting the drugs.
   (AP, 4/28/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â May 18, The Navajo Nation,
spanning across parts of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, reported 69
new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 4,071.
   (Good Morning America, 5/19/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â May 23, In Utah police
fatally shot Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal (22). Officers fired
34 shots at Palacios-Carbajal, striking him 13 - 15 times, after
chasing him while he ran away carrying a gun and repeatedly dropped
it and retrieved it.
  Â
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Bernardo_Palacios-Carbajal)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 9, It was reported
that Arizona, Utah and New Mexico all posted COVID-19 rises of 40%
or higher for the week ended June 7 compared with the prior seven
days.
   (Reuters, 6/9/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 9, Utah Gov. Gary
Herbert declared a state of emergency late today in response to
protests in Salt Lake city that erupted after authorities said a
fatal police shooting in May was justified.
   (SFC, 7/11/20, p.A3)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 10, The Navajo Nation,
spanning parts of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, began a weekend
shutdown as the death from the coronavirus rose to 396 with nearly
8,100 cases.
   (SFC, 7/13/20, p.A6)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 22, More than 35,000
cases of the coronavirus have been reported in Utah, and over 250
people have died. The number of infections is thought to be far
higher because many people have not been tested. Officials said the
Salt Lake City area is bucking a surge after the county issued a
mandate a month ago for people to wear masks.
   (AP, 7/22/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 25, In Utah three
people including a 9-month-old were killed and multiple people
injured after a small airplane crashed in West Jordan, a Salt Lake
City suburb.
   (AP, 7/26/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 1, American actor and
singer Wilford Brimley (85) died in Utah. He is best known for his
roles in the Oscar-winning movie "Cocoon" (1985) and "The Firm"
(1993).
  Â
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilford_Brimley)(AP, 8/2/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 22, Republican Sen.
Mitt Romney of Utah said he supports voting to fill the late Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat on the Supreme Court, all but ensuring
President Donald Trump has the backing to push his choice to
confirmation over Democratic objections that it's too close to the
November election.
   (AP, 9/22/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 24, Three US states
reported record one-day increases in new COVID-19 cases. Montana
reported 330 new coronavirus cases, South Dakota recorded 463 new
cases. Utah's governor said the state set a one-day record with
1,198 new cases.
   (Reuters, 9/24/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 2, North Carolina Sen.
Thom Tillis and Utah Sen. Mike Lee, both Republican members of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, said that they had tested positive for
the coronavirus.
   (AP, 10/2/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 7, Vice President Mike
Pence and Democratic challenger Kamala debated in Salt Lake City.
Pence and Harris traded barbs through plexiglass shields in a debate
dominated by the coronavirus pandemic. Pence echoed many of
President Donald Trump’s falsehoods in the one and only debate with
Democratic rival Kamala Harris.
   (AP, 10/8/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 7, In Utah tech worker
Ayoola A. Ajayi (32) pleaded guilty to strangling college student
Mackenzie Lueck (23), whose disappearance over a year ago sparked a
search that ended with the discovery of her charred remains in his
backyard.
   (NBC News, 10/8/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 16, It was reported
that federal authorities in Utah have charged 21 white supremacist
gang members and associates with distributing drugs and firearms
around the state.
   (NY Daily News, 10/16/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 22, Utah reported a
new record number of COVID-19 cases. Gov. Gary Hart again pleaded
with people to adhere to mask mandates in place in 21 of the state's
29 counties.
   (https://tinyurl.com/yypqx3hx)(SFC, 10/26/20,
p.A6)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 22, The University of
Utah acknowledged for the first time that the 2018 on-campus murder
of track star Lauren McCluskey was “preventable” and agreed to pay
her family $13.5 million to settle a lawsuit in the case.
   (NY Daily News, 10/22/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 27, In Utah the
170-year-old Deseret News said it will stop daily publishing
starting next year. A day earlier the Salt Lake Tribune made a
similar announcement.
   (SFC, 10/28/20, p.A5)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 3, Residents of
Nebraska and Utah decided to strip their constitutions of
unenforceable provisions that allowed slavery as a punishment for
criminal convictions.
   (AP, 11/8/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 6, It was reported
that more than 14,000 farmed minks have died in recent weeks in Utah
and Wisconsin after contracting COVID-19.
   (SFC, 11/6/20, p.A7)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 8, Utah state Gov.
Gary Herbert declared a new state of emergency to address hospital
overcrowding in response to weeks of stress on its hospital networks
due to a surge of novel coronavirus cases.
   (Reuters, 11/8/20)
2020      Nov 18, A Utah
Department of Public Safety showed a metal monolith in the ground in
a remote area of red rock. It disappeared less than 10 days after it
was spotted by wildlife biologists performing a helicopter survey of
bighorn sheep.
   (AP, 11/29/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 18, The Utah-based
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints added new language to
the faith's handbook imploring members to root out prejudice and
racism, adding significance and permanence to recent comments by top
leaders on one of the most sensitive topics in the church's history.
The faith’s past ban on Black men in the lay priesthood, which stood
until 1978, was disavowed in a 2013 essay. The church never issued a
formal apology.
   (AP, 12/18/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 31, The Salt Lake
Tribune and Deseret News printed their final daily newspapers as
they joined others that made the same decision in response to
declining print and circulation revenues. The newspaper had printed
daily for 149 years.
   (AP, 12/31/20)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 7, PayPal Holdings
Inc's venture arm said it has made an investment in Salt Lake City,
Utah-based tech startup Taxbit, which helps consumers and businesses
calculate the taxes owed on cryptocurrency holdings.
   (Reuters, 1/7/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 6, In Utah four skiers
were killed and four others were rescued near Salt Lake City in the
deadliest snowslide in the United States in seven year.
   (Reuters, 2/7/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 15, Senator Mitt
Romney of Utah in a public letter urged American spectators,
companies and diplomats to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics,
to punish China for its human rights abuses. He favored that
approach over an athlete boycott.
   (NY Times, 3/15/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 14, Scorpion, an
internet marketing services provider, said has raised $100 million
in funds from investment firm Bregal Sagemount to expand its
technology and customer offerings. Utah-based Scorpion recently
acquired CanlRank, a software company that uses artificial
intelligence to provide customers with locally relevant search
engine optimization (SEO) insights, for an undisclosed sum.
   (Reuters, 4/14/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 20, Utah-based IT
company Ivanti said in a statement that the hackers in China took
advantage of the flaw in its Pulse Connect Secure suite of virtual
private networking devices to break into the systems of "a very
limited number of customers." A fix for the issue would not be
available until early May. It was later reported that dozens of
other high-value entities, not yet named, were also targeted as part
of the breach of Pulse Secure, which is used by many companies and
governments for secure remote access to their networks.
   (Reuters, 4/20/21)(AP, 6/14/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â May 29, In northern Utah
one man died and another man suffered severe burns when their
single-engine aircraft crashed this morning near the Powder Mountain
area near Eden.
   (AP, 5/29/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 18, The US Southwest
baked under an unrelenting heatwave for a fifth day, putting power
systems to the test as more records were expected to be broken
before a moderating trend sets in next week. The National Weather
Service issued excessive heat warnings for five states - California,
Nevada, Utah, Arizona and part of Colorado.
   (Reuters, 6/18/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 19, Sazgin Baran
Korkmaz, a Turkish businessman, was arrested in Austria by the US
Justice Dept. in connection with a biodiesel fraud scheme operated
by a Utah business that stole nearly $500 million in government
funds. Korkmaz was suspected of laundering over $133 million through
bank accoutns he controlled in Turkey and Luxembourg.
   (SFC, 6/23/21, p.B3)
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