Utah History Timeline

• 1826-08-22 Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake Utah

• 1848-05-30 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo between the United States and Mexico comes into force, giving California Nevada, Utah and most of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona to the US in return for $15 million
• 1850-02-28 The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah
• 1850-09-09 Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
• 1856-06-09 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts
• 1857-09-11 Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
• 1861-03-02 US creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah territories

• 1863-07-30 Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah
• 1868-07-25 US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)

• 1870-02-12 Utah becomes the second territory in the United States to pass a law allowing women the vote, after Wyoming in 1869
• 1870-02-14 Seraph Young becomes the first woman to legally vote in the modern United States, two days after the Utah legislature passed a law allowing women the vote
• 1875-10-16 Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
• 1895-11-05 US state Utah accepts female suffrage
• 1896-11-03 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female state senator in the US
• 1897-01-11 Martha Hughes Cannon takes office as the 1st woman state senator in US, in Utah, after defeating her own husband
• 1900-05-01 Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
• 1908-04-16 Natural Bridges National Monument forms (Lake Powell, Utah)
• 1908-05-30 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
• 1909-02-01 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah, opens
• 1914-01-13 Industrial Workers of the World leader and songwriter Joe Hill arrested for murder during a robbery
• 1915-10-04 Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established
• 1918-07-22 Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park
• 1924-03-08 Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate, Utah
• 1926-02-17 Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch, Bingham, Utah; 40 die
• 1933-06-30 US Assay Offices close in Helena, MT, Boise, ID and Salt Lake City, UT

• 1938-12-01 School bus & train collide in Salt Lake City Utah
• 1944-03-28 6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth, 42-40; Utes' first title; small forward Arnie Ferrin is named tournament MOP
• 1944-12-31 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah

• 1953-05-19 Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St George, Utah)
• 1956-08-04 German Wilhelm Herz becomes first to ride motorcycle at 200mph (210mph/338kph) at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
• 1961-03-25 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's defeats Utah, 127-120 in quadruple overtime

• 1965-11-02 Craig Breedlove driving FIA-legal four-wheeler, Sonic I, breaks land speed record with a two-run average of 555.483 mph (893.963 km/h) at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
• 1965-11-04 Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah
• 1968-03-13 Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah, kills 6,000 sheep
• 1970-09-05 Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record)
• 1972-08-10 The Great Fireball, a rare daylight meteor seen from Utah, US to Alberta, Canada, passes 35 miles from Earth's surface
• 1973-11-03 BYU receiver Jay Miller sets an NCAA football single game record with 22 catches (for 263 yards) en route to a 56-21 victory over New Mexico at Cougar Stadium, Provo, Utah

• 1974-10-31 Ted Bundy victim Laura Aime disappears in Utah
• 1974-11-08 Ted Bundy victim Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
• 1975-07-04 Ted Bundy victim Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah
• 1976-11-10 Utah Supreme Court approves execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
• 1977-01-17 Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in the Utah state prison, convicted of murder
• 1982-12-02 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart
• 1984-09-15 Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985
• 1984-12-19 Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
• 1985-01-02 Nevada Las Vegas basketball gives coach Jerry Tarkanian his 600th career victory with a 142-140 win over Utah State in triple overtime; total of 282 points breaks NCAA men's record of 275 set in 1976
• 1985-02-01 -69°F (-56°C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record)
• 1989-02-24 150 million year old fossil egg found in Utah with a fossilized dinosaur embryo inside, the oldest dinosaur egg yet found in the Northern Hemisphere
• 1989-03-23 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
• 1990-12-16 KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions
• 1990-12-17 KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
• 1991-10-04 Delta Center in Salt Lake City Utah
• 1994-07-23 Amy Osmond of Utah, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
• 1998-03-30 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Utah, 78-69; Wildcats' 2nd title in 3 seasons and 7th overall
• 2002-02-08 XIX Winter Olympic Games open in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
• 2002-02-24 IXX Winter Olympic Games close in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

• 2005-01-01 34th Fiesta Bowl: #5 Utah beats #19 Pittsburgh, 35-7
• 2005-04-23 NFL Draft: University of Utah quarterback Alex Smith first pick by San Francisco 49ers

• 2018-09-16 Cycling land speed record broken for men and women by Denise Mueller-Korenek riding 183.932 mph (296.010 km/h) Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah

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• 1304-02-24 Ibn Battuta, Berber writer and the greatest Muslim traveller who went further than Marco Polo (Riḥlah), born in Tangier, Morocco (d. 368 or 377)
• 1832-03-10 William Henry Penrose, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born at Madison Barracks in Sackett's Harbor, New York (d. 1903)
• 1843-05-06 Grove Karl Gilbert, American geologist (investigated Lake Bonneville, Utah), born in Rochester, New York (d. 1918)
• 1856-11-22 Heber J. Grant, 7th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1945)

• 1869-10-08 Komitas [Soghomon Soghomonian], Armenian priest, composer (Patarag), and musicologist, born in Kütahya, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) (d. 1935) [O.S. birth 09-26]
• 1870-04-04 George Albert Smith, American religious leader, 8th President of Latter-day Saints, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1951)
• 1872-11-11 Maude Adams, American actress (Baldwin's Theatre - Peter Pan), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1953)
• 1873-09-08 David O. McKay, 9th President of Latter-day Saints, born in Huntsville, Utah (d. 1970)
• 1876-07-19 Joseph Fielding Smith Jr., 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1972)
• 1876-11-07 Culbert Olson, American lawyer and politician (Gov-D-Cal), born in Fillmore, Utah (d. 1962)
• 1889-06-27 Moroni Olsen, American actor (Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White), born in Ogden, Utah (d. 1954)
• 1890-04-17 Arthemus "Art" Acord, American silent film actor and rodeo champion (Arizona Kid, Hard Fists), born in Glenwood, Utah (d. 1931)
• 1893-04-23 Frank Borzage, American director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1962)
• 1895-03-28 Spencer W. Kimball, American 12th President of the Latter-day Saints (1973-1985), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1985)
• 1896-12-21 Leroy Robertson, American composer and music educator, born in Fountain Green, Utah (d. 1971)
• 1897-03-19 Betty Compson, American actress (Big City, Docks Of New York), born in Beaver, Utah (d. 1974)
• 1898-03-23 Hazel Dawn [Tout], American actress (Niobe, Under Cover, Feud Girl), born in Ogden, Utah (d. 1988)
• 1899-08-27 Byron Foulger, American actor (River's Edge, Up in Smoke), born in Ogden, Utah (d. 1970)
• 1900-09-17 J. Willard Marriott, American entrepreneur and hotelier (founder of Marriott Corporation), born in Marriott Settlement, Utah (d. 1985)
• 1902-03-27 Charles Bryant Lang Jr., American cinematographer, born in Bluff, Utah (d. 1998)
• 1906-08-19 Philo T. Farnsworth, American inventor (created electronic television, video camera tube), born in Beaver, Utah (d. 1971)
• 1907-09-21 Helen Foster Snow, American journalist (reported from China in the 1930s), born in Cedar City, Utah (d. 1997)
• 1908-10-14 Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress, born in Granger, Utah (d. 2003)
• 1910-06-23 Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1995-2008), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2008)
• 1911-09-23 Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)

• 1913-04-17 Paul Langton, American actor (Till the Clouds Roll By, Peyton Place), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1980)
• 1915-04-01 Art Lund, American pop baritone singer ("Mam'selle"), screen and stage actor (Fiorello!), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1990)
• 1917-04-01 Leon Janney (Ramon), American actor (Charly, Stolen Paradise, Hawk), born in Ogden, Utah (d. 1980)
• 1917-06-11 Joseph B Wirthlin, American businessmen, religious leader, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2008)
• 1918-07-31 Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist and Nobel Prize Laureate for research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" (1997), born in Provo, Utah (d. 2018)
• 1918-10-13 Robert Walker, American actor and writer (Strangers on a Train, Bataan, Madame Curie), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1951)
• 1919-12-11 Marie Windsor [Emily Marie Bertelson], American actress (The Bounty Hunter, Double Deal), born in Marysvale, Utah (d. 2000)
• 1920-07-31 James Esdras Faust, American religious leader, born in Delta, Utah (d. 2007)
• 1920-10-13 Laraine Day [La Raine Johnson], American actress (Dr. KIldaire, Foreign Correspondent), born in Roosevelt, Utah (d. 2007)
• 1921-02-22 Wayne Booth, American literary critic, born in American Fork, Utah (d. 2005)
• 1921-07-30 Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2005)
• 1923-02-15 Keene Curtis, American character actor (The Rothschilds, Cheers, Amanda's), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2002)
• 1924-09-10 Boyd K. Packer, LDS church apostle, born in Brigham City, Utah (d. 2015)
• 1924-09-12 Howard Curtis Nielson, American politician (Rep-R-UT, 1983-91), born in Richfield, Utah (d. 2020)
• 1925-03-19 Brent Scowcroft, American Air Force officer and National Security advisor, born in Ogden, Utah (d. 2020)
• 1925-06-17 Keith Larsen, American actor (Hunter, Brave Eagle), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2006)
• 1927-08-21 Thomas Monson, 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2018)
• 1928-10-08 M. Russell Ballard, American religious leader (Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of LDS Church), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
• 1929-04-06 Joi Lansing [Joyce Brown], American model, film and television actress (Touch Of Evil; Bob Cummings Show), and nightclub singer, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1972)
• 1930-05-18 Don Lind, American USN Commander, and pilot, and NASA astronaut (STS-51-B), born in Midvale, Utah (d. 2022)
• 1930-11-15 Olene Walker, politician (R), 1st female Governor of Utah (2003-2005), born in Ogden, Utah (d. 2015)
• 1931-07-21 Gene Fullmer, American boxer (World Middleweight title 1957; NBA [WBA] World Middleweight title 1959-62), born in West Jordan, Utah (d. 2015)
• 1932-08-14 James V. Hansen, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2018)
• 1932-10-12 Jake Edwin Garn, American politician (US Senate-R-Utah, 1974-93) and NASA astronaut (STS-51-D), born in Richfield, Utah
• 1933-09-18 Robert "Bob" Bennett, American politician (U.S. Senator from Utah, 1993-2011), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2016)
• 1934-09-27 Wilford Brimley, American actor (Gus-Our House, Cocoon), born in Salt Lake City Utah (d. 2020)
• 1934-12-01 LaMar Clark, American boxer (record most consecutive knockouts 44, including unsanctioned bouts), born in Cedar City, Utah (d. 2006)
• 1936-07-16 Buddy Merrill [Leslie Behunin], American guitarist and steel guitar player (Lawrence Welk Show. 1955-74), born in Torrey, Utah (d. 2021)
• 1936-08-20 Sam Melville, American actor (The Rookies -"Mike Danko"; Roughnecks), born in Fillmore, Utah (d. 1989)
• 1936-09-22 Bill Orton, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah), born in North Ogden, Utah (d. 2009)
• 1937-02-27 L. Jay Silvester, American discus thrower (Olympic silver 1972), born in Tremonton, Utah
• 1938-04-06 Frances Schreuder, American socialite convicted of murder, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2004)
• 1940-06-01 Kip Thorne, American Physicist (Nobel Prize 2017, LIGO), born in Logan, Utah
• 1940-07-05 Karen Shepherd, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah), born in Silver City, New Mexico
• 1940-09-08 Quentin L. Cook, American lawyer and religious leader (Quorum of the Twelve Apostles), born in Logan, Utah
• 1940-10-07 Richard H. Stallings, American politician (Rep-D-ID, 1985-93), born in Ogden, Utah
• 1942-07-09 Edy Williams, American actress (Dr Minx), born in Salt Lake City, Utah

• 1944-08-28 Melvin Dummar, American gas station attendant, claimant to the Howard Hughes estate, and subject of the film "Melvin and Howard", born in Utah (d. 2018)
• 1946-10-14 Craig Venter, American biotechnologist and geneticist (involved with the first draft sequence of the human genome), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
• 1946-10-27 Leslie Byrne, American politician (Rep-D-Virginia), born in Salt Lake City, Utah

• 1947-05-29 Anthony Geary, American actor (Luke/Bill-General Hospital), born in Coalville, Utah
• 1948-02-17 Rick Majerus, American college basketball coach (5 × WAC Coach of the Year; Uni of Utah), born in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin (d. 2012)
• 1948-10-27 Byron Allred, American rock keyboardist (Steve Miller Band), born in Logan, Utah
• 1949-06-22 Alan Osmond, American pop singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie), born in Ogden, Utah
• 1950-09-13 Jeff Lowe, American mountain climber (co-founder Lowe Alpine), born in Ogden, Utah (d. 2018)
• 1951-08-28 Wayne Osmond, American singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie), born in Ogden, Utah

• 1953-04-30 Merrill Osmond, American pop singer, and songwriter (Osmond Brothers - "One Bad Apple"; "Down by the Lazy River"), born in Ogden, Utah
• 1954-04-21 James Morrison [Paige], American actor (24, Twin Peaks), born in Bountiful, Utah
• 1954-09-05 Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive, born in Utah
• 1954-12-07 Mark Hofmann, American forger, bomber and convicted murderer, born in Salt Lake City, Utah
• 1955-03-02 Jay Osmond, American singer and drummer (Osmond Brothers - "One Way Ticket to Anywhere"), born in Ogden, Utah
• 1955-11-26 Tracy Hickman, American sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
• 1957-12-09 Donny Osmond, American singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie), born in Ogden, Utah
• 1959-08-02 Britt Helfer, American actress (Lily-Loving, Alley Cat), born in Clearfield, Utah
• 1959-10-13 Marie Osmond, American pop singer ("Paper Roses"), and actress (Goin' Coconuts), born in Ogden, Utah
• 1960-12-19 Mike Lookinland, American actor (Bobby-Brady Bunch), born in Mt Pleasant, Utah

• 1962-06-12 Michael Link, American actor (Earl-Julia), born in Provo, Utah
• 1963-04-16 Jimmy Osmond, American pop singer ("Long Haired Lover from Liverpool"), born in Canoga Park, California

• 1964-04-28 L'Wren Scott [Laura Bambrough], American fashion designer and partner of Mick Jagger, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2014)
• 1965-04-18 Jim Boylen, American basketball head coach (Chicago Bulls 2018-19; University of Utah 2007-11), born in East Grand Rapids, Michigan
• 1966-01-14 Matt Brock, American NFL defensive end (NY Jets), born in Ogden, Utah
• 1966-08-29 Dan Truman, American singer (Diamond Rio - "Meet in the Middle"), born in St. George, Utah
• 1966-10-30 Quin Snyder, American basketball coach (NBA All-Star Game head coach 2021; Utah Jazz; University of Missouri), born in Mercer Island, Washington
• 1968-01-02 Scott Mitchell, American football quarterback (Miami Dolphins, Detroit Lions, Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
• 1968-09-04 John Preston, American actor (Greg-General Hospital), born in Cedar City, Utah
• 1971-06-27 Brant Boyer, American football linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars), born in Ogden, Utah
• 1972-08-19 Elizabeth Wolfgramm, American singer (The Jets), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
• 1972-11-11 Steve Konowalchuk, American NHL center (Washington Capitals), born in Salt Lake City, Utah

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