1. In 1890, Wyoming became the 44th state in the USA. This marked the end of a long struggle for statehood, which had begun over 20 years earlier.

2. On February 10, 1909, the state of Wyoming passed legislation that made it the first in the country to grant women the right to vote. This was a major milestone in the fight for women's suffrage in the USA.

3. In 1936, the town of Douglas, Wyoming set a world record for the coldest temperature ever recorded in a town with a population over 1,000 people. On February 10 of that year, the temperature dropped to -62 degrees Fahrenheit.

4. In 1941, the US Army established the Heart Mountain Relocation Center near Cody, Wyoming. This internment camp held thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II, and was the site of numerous protests and acts of resistance by the prisoners.

5. On February 10, 1986, Wyoming native J. Craig Venter became the first person to sequence a living organism's entire genome. Venter's ground-breaking work paved the way for numerous advancements in bioengineering and biotechnology.