2023 in Utah

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Last updated March 04, 2025

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]

References

↑ "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.

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[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] "Man who threatened Biden shot dead". The Manila Times. Agence France-Presse. August 11, 2023. Retrieved December 16, 2024.

[4] "North Dakota state senator, his wife and 2 kids killed in Utah plane crash". AP News. October 2, 2023. Retrieved December 16, 2024.

[5] "Second OMG cosmic ray particle breaks physics again". cosmosmagazine.com. November 24, 2023. Retrieved December 16, 2024.

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2023 in Utah

Contents

Incumbents

State government

Events

See also

References