2023 in Utah

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The following is a list of events of the year 2023 in Utah.

Incumbents

State government

• Governor:Spencer Cox (R)

Events

• 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

• 2023 in the United States

References

1. "Utah Man Kills Wife, Five Children and Mother-in-Law, Police Say". The New York Times. January 4, 2023.
2. "This is Utah's new flag — and here's why more states are mulling redesigns". The Washington Post. March 21, 2023.
3. France-Presse, Agence (2023-08-11). "Man who threatened Biden shot dead". The Manila Times. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
4. "North Dakota state senator, his wife and 2 kids killed in Utah plane crash". AP News. 2023-10-02. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
5. "Second OMG cosmic ray particle breaks physics again". cosmosmagazine.com. 2023-11-24. Retrieved 2024-12-16.