HISTORY MOMENTS The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history: The massacre of the Alexander Ward party on August 20, 1854, near present-day Middleton was the culmination of Indian activities that led to the closing of Fort Boise and Fort Hall by Hudson's Bay Company. Only two members of the Ward wagon train of twenty managed to escape. The site is now a small park with a commemorative monument managed by the Canyon County Historical Society. During a visit to Hartford, Connecticut on August 22, 1902, Theodore Roosevelt became the first United States president to ride in an automobile. Nearly 200 people gathered in 106-degree heat at Mountain Home Air Force Base on August 21, 1969, to greet four Apollo 14 astronauts who landed in Idaho to "explore" the Craters of the Moon. Women gained the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on August 18, 1920. Acting Idaho Territorial Governor Clinton DeWitt Smith, while on tour of the territory, suddenly died from the effects of "a dismal and melancholy disease" on August 19, 1865, at Rocky Bar.