CAMILLE BOHANNON
CAMILLE BOHANNON
Devils Tower in 1890.
On this day in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed
Devils Tower, a massive rock formation in Wyoming, the
country’s first national monument.
He called the “lofty and isolated rock” a “natural wonder.”
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt Jr.
(October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919)
Devils Tower today draws more than half a million visitors
a year.
Charles James Kirk (October 14, 1993 – September 10, 2025)




On August 9, 1945, a second atomic bomb is dropped on
Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally
in Japan’s unconditional surrender.