2023 in Utah
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The following is a list of events of the year 2023 in Utah.
Incumbents
[edit]State government
[edit]Events
[edit]- January 4 – Killing of the Haight family: Three adults and five children are found dead inside a home in Enoch, after police conduct a welfare check.[1]
- March 21 – Utah adopts a new flag after the governor officializes it. It came into official use in March 2024.[2]
- August 9 – A man in Provo who made threats against President Joe Biden is shot and killed by FBI agents.[3]
- October 1 – North Dakota state senator Doug Larsen and his family are killed in a plane crash in Grand County.[4]
- November 24 – Astronomers at the Telescope Array Project observe the second largest cosmic ray ever detected, the so-called Amaterasu particle, with an energy of 244 EeV.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Utah Man Kills Wife, Five Children and Mother-in-Law, Police Say". The New York Times. January 4, 2023.
- ↑ "This is Utah's new flag — and here's why more states are mulling redesigns". The Washington Post. March 21, 2023.
- ↑ "Man who threatened Biden shot dead". The Manila Times. Agence France-Presse. August 11, 2023. Retrieved December 16, 2024.
- ↑ "North Dakota state senator, his wife and 2 kids killed in Utah plane crash". AP News. October 2, 2023. Retrieved December 16, 2024.
- ↑ "Second OMG cosmic ray particle breaks physics again". cosmosmagazine.com. November 24, 2023. Retrieved December 16, 2024.