Wyoming: Timeline

1868   Wyoming becomes a United States territory Political divisions of the United States

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1872   US government geologist Clarence King reveals the diamond hoax in Wyoming

1890   Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state U.S. state

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1892   Johnson County War in Wyoming

1922   Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil Petroleum

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 reserves in Wyoming.

1924   Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming elected as the first woman governor in the United States United States

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1949   February 22 - Series of winter storms in Nebraska Nebraska

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, Wyoming, South Dakota South Dakota

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, Utah Utah

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, Colorado Colorado

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 and Nevada Nevada

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 - winds of up to 72 mph - tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish

1958   Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming.

1998   Matthew Shepard Matthew Shepard

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, a Wyoming college student, is found tied to a fence, the victim of a gay-bashing. He dies on Monday, October 12, becoming a symbol of victims of gay-bashing and sparking public reflection on homophobia.