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Flying out of the Tonopah Test Range, Lt General Bobby Bond, 54, died after a failed ejection from a US Air Force-owned MIG23 in a high speed crash at Little Skull Mountain in Area 25 at the Nevada Test Site on Apr 26, 1984. Interred in Ashland, MS. bit.ly/ggCmuM

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Peter Lassen was one of two men killed by Paiutes at the Black Rock Desert in what is now Nevada, on Apr 25, 1859. Lassen County in California is named for him. t.co/Th4WFnMg8b Article from the May 18, 1859 National Democrat out of Marysville, CA.

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Cool UNLV Digital Collections plat map of Goldfield, NV dated Apr 25, 1907, close to Goldfield's peak population. t.co/gk9gLlodfb Note: I tried to overlay where Hwy 95 goes through currently in red.

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Frenchman John Millain (or Millian or Milain) was hanged in Virginia City, NV on Apr 24, 1868 for the Jan 1867 murder of popular local prostitute Julia Bulette. His conviction in Jul 1867 was upheld on appeal. He maintained that he did not kill her. t.co/9HrL9AohCB

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Irene and Jim Haw opened their Country Cousings Grocery Store near the Pittman Post Office in Henderson, NV in 1956. Henderson Libraries has a couple of photos of the inside of the store from Apr 25, 1956. t.co/UaTw4Rg1f6 Last photo is owner Jim Haw from Apr 24, 1958.

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Believed extinct since 1950, specimens of the Relict Leopard Frog were discovered on Apr 24, 1991 at two springs near Lake Mead. t.co/nOuNjlsKye Note: Repopulation efforts placed Leopard Frogs in Goldstrike Canyon, near Boulder City, where I took this picture in 2016

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Pioche was almost left without a schoolhouse when the residents voted simultaneously against a tax to build a new one, and just barely, by 2 votes, against selling the current one, according to the Apr 25, 1873 Pioche Record. bit.ly/2HYzliC

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Newton Crumley signed the first big name entertainer to perform in Nevada. Popular bandleader Ted Lewis debuted in the lounge at the Commercial Hotel in Elko, NV on Apr 26, 1941. bit.ly/2zsn85z Ad from the Apr 25, 1941 Daily Free Press out of Elko, NV.

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Las Vegas News Bureau photo of Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, and Eddie Cantor at the Tropicana Pool in Las Vegas, NV from Apr 25, 1957. bit.ly/3aFaO1B

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Arrived in Nevada in 1863, Nevada Governor (1891-95) during some very lean years for our state, and Superintendent of the Carson City Branch of the US Mint (1898-1911), Roswell Keyes Colcord was born Apr 25, 1839 in Searsport, ME. bit.ly/34h7BQs bit.ly/2IVuNMs

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Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr arrived in Las Vegas on Apr 25, 1964. He stayed at the Sands, where he would not have been allowed a few years earlier. King spoke on the 1964 Civil Rights Act at the Las Vegas Convention Center the following day. bit.ly/2oJKvfZ

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Arrived in Nevada in 1882, prominent Yerington, NV merchant Marcus Segal was born on Apr 25, 1863 in Poland. Image is one of his ads in the Lyon County Times (this one: Sep 3, 1904). bit.ly/2GHdlKb Note: The Segals named one of their Nevada-born children, Silver Segal.

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Made her Las Vegas debut at the Riviera Casino (opening for Liberace) in 1963, regular Las Vegas headliner Barbra Streisand was born on Apr 24, 1942 in Brooklyn, NY. t.co/EpMxf8qkvK t.co/GIBkWi3ZP6

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Passed her exam in 1893, the first woman licensed to practice law in Nevada (though there is no evidence that she actually did), Laura May Tilden was born on Apr 24, 1872 in Sacramento, CA. t.co/maJNzU8eIy Note: She did actually practice law in California and Colorado.

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UNLV Digital Collections has this image of a "Masonic caravan" of vehicles arriving on the shore of the Colorado River in Black Canyon at the site of what would become the Hoover Dam dated Apr 23, 1932. tinyurl.com/3hkdy3we

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Amy Dansie and Donald Tuohy of the Nevada State Museum Anthropology Department went public on Apr 24, 1996 with the find of the so-called Spirit Cave Mummy from 1940. t.co/Me56OtOvMK

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Professional boxer (51-6 including 18-1 in Nevada), PE Teacher at Rancho High School in Las Vegas, Nevada State Boxing Commissioner, and Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame inductee (2016), Freddie Little was born on Apr 24, 1936 in Picayune, MS. bit.ly/2QnR2gV

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A "new informal picture" of then US Senator for Nevada Pat McCarran in Washington, DC taken on Apr 24, 1939. bit.ly/2S3Xevm

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A strong earthquake struck Reno, NV on Apr 24, 1914. The 6.1 quake caused cracked walls and fallen chimneys, and "people rushed into the streets." bit.ly/2oYbSXa bit.ly/1Fkq3b6 Note: Mentioned in the Elko Independent the next day.

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Canadian-born bodybuilder and co-founder of the International Federation of Bodybuilders (IFBB) Joe Weider married model Betty Brosmer at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las #Vegas, NV on Apr 24, 1961. They remained marred up to Joe's death in 2013. VID: bit.ly/12k2ABu

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The Apr 23, 1869 Alta California, via the Inland Empire paper, included Nevada updates mostly from the White Pine District where in Hamilton, NV "over 30 stone and frame buildings" were being erected and "many canvas houses were blown down..." t.co/9060Ajq4R1

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Born in 1827 in NY, prominent Comstock lawyer and the first US Senator for Nevada (1865-75, 1887-1905), William Morris Stewart, 81, died on Apr 23, 1909 in Washington, DC. He was cremated and his ashes kept at Laurel Hill Cemetery in San Francisco, CA. t.co/QJ5dPSjPAH

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Las Vegas NAACP President, civil rights advocate, and Nevada's first black dentist, Dr James B McMillan, 82, passed away on Mar 20, 1999. t.co/RkoTcwwH1F Dr McMillan was memorialized by the Nevada Legislature on Apr 23, 1999. PDF: t.co/WITTiBzz7R

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A federal Works Progress Administration Grant (WPA) of $14,121 was approved on Apr 23, 1941 for improvements to the Humboldt County General Hospital in Winnemucca, NV. t.co/Kj2th55BF2

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Beginning in the summer of 1858, mail was carried on Overland Mail routes by stage coach between California and the eastern states across what is now Nevada. The largest load by Overland Mail left California on Apr 23, 1859 with 500 lbs of letters. t.co/p6AxsszfwJ

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A man from Gold Hill prospecting in Treasure Hill, NV in the White Pine District reported negatively of that place to the Gold Hill News, printed in Gold Hill, NV on Apr 23, 1869, "things are terrible here - nothing to do and everybody very hungry." t.co/k5A9Xw5l0p

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Born in Toledo, OH in 1939, arrived in Las Vegas about 1959, longtime owner of the Silver Bell Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, NV, James "Jim" Leonard Duszynski passed away from cancer on Apr 23, 2015. t.co/vUNNkg57vM "Never had a bad day in my life."

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I do enjoy the manner in which the Pioche Record described skirmishes in Pioche in the 1870s, like this mismatch that made it into the Apr 23, 1873 edition. t.co/GmABzcXAhX

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Arrived in Nevada in 1885, opened the first drug store in Ely, NV, Nevada Assemblyman (1905-07) and the first mayor of Ely (where Clark St is named for him), Fred M Clark was born on Apr 23, 1867 in Columbia Falls, ME. t.co/VgHGloeR3Z His store bottles are collectibles.

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His first Las Vegas contract signed the week prior, Elvis Presley made his Las Vegas Strip debut on Apr 23, 1956, the first day of a two week stint as an "Extra Added Attraction" at the New Frontier's Venus Room. bit.ly/gLn62s Note: Local critics were not impressed.

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The Apr 22, 1874 Gold Hill News noted shade trees were being planted at Mound House, a milling area and Virginia & Truckee railroad station halfway between Virginia and Carson cities. These were planted by L T McClain of the Mound House Saloon. t.co/awEAS1grSW

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A Post Office opened at the mill town of New Boston, NV on Apr 22, 1879. It only lasted for a month and a half. New Boston was a mill town in Mineral County, north of Mina, NV, and was named for the old Boston in Massachusetts. t.co/bArzOBxUm8

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Purchased Bill & Effie's Truck Stop (1968) and renamed it Boomtown Casino, University of Nevada Regent (1979-82), Nevada Lieutenant Governor (1983-87), and Mayor of Reno (2002-14), Bob Cashell was born on Apr 22, 1938 in Longview, TX. Mayor Cashell passed away on Feb 11, 2020.

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Arrived in Nevada about 1959, former Nevada Test Site worker, community leader, and longtime Reno, NV pastor, William C Webb was born on Apr 22, 1934 in Arkansas. t.co/W7ebBFfsBe

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The Nevada Alpha chapter of fraternity Phi Delta Theta, ΦΔΘ, was founded at the University of Nevada in Reno, NV on Apr 22, 1972. t.co/2m8G8Y9aTR t.co/h0F15jIImp

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The Library of Congress has a panorama image of Beatty, NV in Nye County with a copyright date of Apr 22, 1907. That is the aptly named Beatty mountain in the middle in the background. t.co/0PRxYeU4Ld Note: This view is from the west looking east. Google streetview from 2008 also attached.

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The last four F-117 Stealth Fighter Jets were retired to their original base for Type 1000 storage at the Tonopah Test Range, near Tonopah, NV, on Apr 22, 2008. bit.ly/1eYd97i

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Eldest of the Dann sisters of the Nevada Shoshone, Central Nevada rancher and activist, Mary Dann, 82, died on her ranch in Crescent Valley, NV on Apr 22, 2005, "with her boots on and hay in her pocket." t.co/eifUN7gVZE t.co/tb2iq2i7GH

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Born in Fremont, CA in 1976, NFL Football pro (Cardinals) and US Army Ranger, Pat Tillman died in Afghanistan on Apr 22, 2004. t.co/3etCaOflsA The Hoover Dam by-pass bridge includes his name as the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge.

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On Apr 22, 1952, atomic test Charlie, part of Operation Tumbler-Snapper, was detonated at Yucca Flat at the Nevada Test Site. It was the first Nevada nuclear test to be broadcast live on TV. bit.ly/e90awe DOE photo with copyright to Joy Garnett.

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The Pioche Record of Apr 22, 1873 reported that some boys were enjoying racing four "well trained" dogs on lower Main St in Pioche, NV, "desecrating the Holy Day" of Easter Sunday. bit.ly/2vG1Hfe

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Though given special workmen's passes by Boulder Dam construction engineer Ralph Lowry, a group of Black people were refused tour entry by an elevator operator at Boulder Dam on Apr 22, 1936. The group was led by NAACP Director of Branches William Pickens. bit.ly/3aFnAxj

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The Fallon Wild-Life Refuge in Churchill County was created by President Herbert Hoover Executive Order dated Apr 22, 1931 (amended to the Fallon National Wildlife Refuge in 1940). It is managed as part of the Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge Complex. bit.ly/2yxv5pU

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Another grand photo of Virginia & Truckee Railroad locomotive #5, this one in Reno, NV passing the railroad turntable on Apr 21, 1950. t.co/P92ccf0Xwe

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Started in 1931, defense contractor whose expertise includes high speed photography and trigger technology for nuclear weapons, Edgerton, Germeshausen, & Grier was incorporated in 1947. Their North Las Vegas plant opened in 1976, pictured on Apr 21, 1976. t.co/VYq9XK9X85

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The US Air Force F-117 Stealth Fighter was put on public display for the first time at #Nellis Air Force Base in North Las Vegas, NV on Apr 21, 1990. t.co/4149Oc0496

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If you happen to be in Pioche, NV in 1874, and know the whereabouts of one James Gagan, please tell the Pioche Record. The Apr 21, 1874 edition says his brother is looking for him. t.co/5xol8GNtKl Note: Jacob City was a mining town southwest of Salt Lake City in Utah.

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