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2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney wins caucuses in the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Wyoming

1992 Death - Gale McGee, senator (Wyoming, 1959-77), dies at 77

1988 Event - Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115

1985 Event - 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)

1979 Birthday - Esmeralda Gonzales, Miss Wyoming Teen USA 1997

1977 Birthday - Michelle Marie Jefferson, Miss Wyoming Teen USA 1996

1976 Birthday - Rebecca Darrington, Gillette Wyoming, Miss America-Wyoming 1997

1975 Birthday - Dana Marie Lane, Cheyenne Wyoming, Miss America-Wyoming 1996

1974 Birthday - Kellee Nicole Kattleman, Miss Wyoming USA 1996

1968 Birthday - Carolie DeVonne Howe, born in Chugwater, Wyoming, Miss Wyoming-America 1991

1968 Birthday - Dave Zuniga, Worland, Wyoming, 136 lbs/greco-roman wrestler 1996 Olympics

1966 Event - Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yards (54, 54, 52)

1966 Birthday - Matthew Fox, born in Crowheart, Wyoming, actor, Party of 5, Fredhman Dorm

1963 Birthday - Mike Devereaux, born in Casper, Wyoming, outfielder for the Baltimore Orioles

1961 Birthday - Lance Earl Deal, Riverton Wyoming, hammer thrower, 1996 Olympics silver

1958 Event - Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming

1955 Birthday - Jm J Bullock, Casper Wyoming, actor, Monroe-Too Close for Comfort

1953 Birthday - Tom Sanders, Jackson Wyoming, aerial cameraman, Living Daylights

1951 Birthday - Dean Unruh, born in Riverton, Wyoming, WLAF offensive line coach for the Rhein Fire

1949 Birthday - Joyce McKinney, born in Avery County, North Carolina, Miss Wyoming, 1972

1946 Birthday - Madeleine Le Roux, Wyoming, Broadway actress, Cry Uncle

1943 Event - 5th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: University of Wyoming beat Georgetown 46-34

1937 Event - Forest fire kills 14 and injures 50 in Cody Wyoming

1933 Birthday - Craig L. Thomas, born in Wyoming, United States Senator from Wyoming, protected America's national parks

1933 Event - -63 degrees F (-53 degrees C), Moran, Wyoming (state record)

1927 Event - "Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre Wyoming collapses

1926 Birthday - Harriett Elizabeth Byrd, politician, Wyoming house of Reps

1925 Event - Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)

1925 Event - Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman Governor in USA

1924 Event - Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st U.S. female Governor (Wyoming)

1921 Birthday - Mildred Davenport, Wyoming, actress, Tarzan and Leopard Woman

1919 Birthday - Curt Gowdy, Green River, Wyoming, sportscaster, ABC

1912 Birthday - Jackson Pollock, born in Cody, Wyoming, expressionist painter, Lavender Mist

1909 Birthday - Isabel Jewell, born in Shoshone, Wyoming, actress, Ceiling Zero, Arousers

1902 Event - J C Penney opens his 1st store in Kemmerer, Wyoming

1901 Birthday - Mildred Harris, Cheyenne, Wyoming, actress, No No Nannette

1900 Event - 114 degrees F (46 degrees C), Basin, Wyoming (state record)

1897 Event - 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming)

1890 Event - Wyoming becomes 44th state of U.S., 1st with female suffrage

1889 Event - 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming

1876 Birthday - Nellie Taylor Ross, 1st woman to serve as a Governor, Wyoming, 1925-27

1869 Event - Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (U.S. 1st)

1868 Event - U.S. Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah and Idaho)

1778 Event - British forces massacre 360 men, women and children in Wyoming, Pa

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