Canyonlands National Park protects a vast stretch of red-rock desert in southeastern Utah, centered on the place where the Colorado and Green rivers meet and carve deep canyons into the Colorado Plateau. Congress created the park in 1964, largely thanks to the advocacy of Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, and President Lyndon Johnson signed the bill. The land is divided by the rivers into three districts: Island in the Sky, a high mesa with sweeping overlooks, the Needles, known for its banded sandstone spires, and the remote Maze. The park also holds rock art left by Ancestral Puebloan and earlier peoples, and it was later enlarged to take in more of the surrounding canyon country.
Before and after
- from 2 August 1964 to 4 August 1964Gulf of Tonkin incident
- 8 August 1964Birth of Giuseppe Conte
- 27 August 1964Release of Mary Poppins
- 2 September 1964Birth of Keanu Reeves
- 12 September 1964Establishment of Canyonlands National Park
- 15 September 1964Birth of Robert Fico
- 17 September 1964Construction of National Museum of Anthropology
- from 25 September 1964 to 8 September 1974Mozambican War of Independence
- 20 October 1964Death of Herbert Hoover
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