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Park Van Tassel makes the first balloon flight in New Mexico Territory on July 4 at New Town. [12] 1883 Germania club founded. [13] Ladies' Library Association active. 1885 New town of Albuquerque chartered. [14] Henry Jaffa elected mayor of new town. [1] 1889 – University of New Mexico founded. 1890 – Population: 3,785. [4]
The history of Albuquerque, New Mexico dates back up to 12,000 years, beginning with the presence of Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers in the region. Gradually, these nomadic people adopted a more settled, agricultural lifestyle and began to build multi-story stone or adobe dwellings now known as pueblos by 750 CE.
A total of 103 executions have been recorded in New Mexico: four during the Spanish Colonial era (1598–1821), none during the Mexican era (1821–1846), 51 during the Territorial era (1846–1913), 20 by the U.S. Military during the Taos Rebellion (1847), 27 between 1913 and 1960, when the death penalty was removed except for the murder of a police officer, and one since 1976, when the death ...
This makes New Mexico the fifteenth state in the U.S. to abolish capital punishment. Since the death penalty was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 (in the case of Gregg v. Georgia), only one person has been executed in New Mexico. This was Terry Clark, who was put to death in 2001, by lethal injection, for the murder of a child.
Due to a rising rate of violent crime, gunman Milt Yarberry was appointed the town's first marshal that year. New Albuquerque was incorporated as a town in 1885, with Henry N. Jaffa its first mayor. It was incorporated as a city in 1891. [24]: 232–233 Old Town remained a separate community until the 1920s, when it was absorbed by Albuquerque.
Aug. 4—Two people are being connected to a May fatal shooting of a 22-year-old Farmington woman. D'Jali Smith, 24, is charged with an open count of murder, shooting at/from a vehicle (great ...
National Register of Historic Places in Albuquerque, New Mexico (131 P) Pages in category "History of Albuquerque, New Mexico" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Aug. 24—The Albuquerque Police Department is investigating the death of a person in Southeast Albuquerque. APD spokesperson Rebecca Atkins said homicide detectives responded to a call of a ...