May 18, 1904
“Ladies Day” at Lander bowling alley.
May 18, 1917
A month after the U.S. entry into World War I, Wyoming’s U.S. senators Francis E. Warren and John B. Kendrick and Congressman Frank Mondell vote for the Selective Service Act, establishing the draft.
May 18, 1946
John Milliken, Jr., of Hanna is killed accidentally by a bullet from the gun of Carbon County Sheriff’s deputy Claude Simmons at the Garden Spot Pavilion, a dance hall in Elk Mountain, when Simmons is trying to break up a brawl.