When was yosemite declared a national park

Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. On October 1, , in New York's final game of the regular season, Yankees slugger Roger Maris hits his 61st home run, becoming the first player in Major League Baseball to hit more than 60 in a season.

He tops former Yankees great Babe Ruth, who hit 60 home runs in Carter was raised a devoted Southern Baptist and graduated from the In an novel called Looking Backward: , author Edward Bellamy imagined a scene in which a time-traveler from reacts to a technological advance from the early 21st century that he describes as, "An arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, Carson went on to host The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for three decades, becoming one of the biggest figures in entertainment in the 20th century.

An earthquake in Whittier, California, kills 6 people and injures more on October 1, The quake was the largest to hit Southern California since , but not nearly as damaging as the Northridge quake that would devastate parts of Los Angeles seven years later. Since Los Angeles Times publisher Harrison Otis, a virulent opponent of unions, believed that the bomb was directed at him, Polly Klaas is abducted at knifepoint by an intruder in her Petaluma, California, home during a slumber party with two friends.

Despite a massive manhunt and national attention, there was no sign of the missing year-old or her abductor for two months. This picture of a Sierra Nevada red fox in December was the first confirmed detection in Yosemite in nearly a century. Photo by National Park Service. Photo by Phillip Abrams www. Photo by Kenny Karst.

Photo of one of the tobaggan runs at Yosemite. Climber Tom Clancey takes a stroll through the Tuolumne skyline at Yosemite. Photo courtesy of Lena Chang carolenabird. On one trip to Tuolumne Meadows, Muir together with Robert Underwood, editor of Century Magazine , came up with the idea to launch a campaign to make Yosemite a national park.

The U. S Cavalry assumed jurisdiction of the new national park lands learn more about the buffalo soldiers who served in the Sierra Nevada here. When Muir took President Theodore Roosevelt on a camping trip in Yosemite in , he was able to convince the president of the importance of preserving more of the Sierra Nevada as federal land. McChesney and John Swett, and photographer J.

Reilly all became early confidants. The prolific writer became particularly concerned about natural landscape preservation. During the s, he focused his attention on the destruction of natural resources in areas surrounding the state-administered Yosemite Grant, set aside in Muir convinced Johnson that the area could only be saved if it was incorporated into a national park.

Congress that proposed creating a new federally administered park surrounding the old Yosemite Grant. Yosemite National Park became a reality in Muir married Louisa Strentzel in The wedded Muir continued to pursue his scientific study with fervor, and just three months after his marriage, he traveled to Alaska as a correspondent for the San Francisco Bulletin and again the following year with the Bulletin team to look for the lost naval exploration ship USS Jeanette.

Continuing adventures out of state, Muir achieved an historic ascent of Mount Rainier in Washington in and numerous journeys to Alaska. He lobbied successfully for the creation of Yosemite Park in and then asked for additional protections when he toured President Theodore Roosevelt in the park in His published writings were also instrumental in the creation of Grand Canyon and Sequoia national parks.

This was reportedly the first major battle of the environmental movement.