| HISTORY MOMENTS The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history: The first airmail service arrived in Boise on April 6, 1926. The route serving Nevada, Idaho and Washington inaugurated speedier mail between the east and the northwest. The return flight carried a precious package to President Calvin Coolidge in Washington, D.C.—two of the finest Idaho baking potatoes that could be found in the state for a White House dinner. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died unexpectedly of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, 1945, at Warm Springs, Georgia. On April 8, 1913, the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, requiring the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than by the state legislators. At the annual conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 6, 1855, President Brigham Young called twenty-seven elders of the Church to establish the first settlement of Mormons in what is now Idaho. They arrived at their destination, about twenty miles south of present-day Salmon, on June 15 and named the new home Fort Limhi, after a king in the Book of Mormon. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1968 Civil Rights Act on April 11. |