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1871 – Great Michigan Fire of 1871 was a series of simultaneous fires, the most prominent of which was the Port Huron Fire, which killed over 200 people in Port Huron, Michigan. 1871 – The Urbana fire destroyed central Urbana, Illinois, on October 9. 1872 – Great Boston Fire of 1872, destroyed 776 buildings and killed at least 20 people.
In February 1903, U.S. Senator Hamilton Kean spoke against Arizona's statehood. He said Mormons who fled from Idaho to Mexico would return to the U.S. and mix in the politics of Arizona. [44] In 1912, Arizona almost entered the Union as part of New Mexico in a Republican plan to keep control of the U.S. Senate. The plan, while accepted by most ...
30th June: 19 members of the Prescott Fire Department were killed fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire. [262] Population in Phoenix estimate of 1,513,367. [263] 2014 – Cubs Park opens in Mesa. 2015 January 1: The Lowell Discovery Telescope, constructed with funding from the Discovery Channel, and owned by Lowell Observatory becomes fully ...
Black people killed at courthouse and as prisoners afterwards. [22] Coushatta massacre: 1874 Aug Coushatta: Louisiana: 11–26 Six whites, remainder black killed as political intimidation. [23] [24] Election riot of 1874: 1874 Nov 3 Eufaula: Alabama: 8 70 injured. White League Democrats drove African American Republicans from the polls. Hamburg ...
The fires killed 44, injured at least 185 people, and destroyed 5,700 homes. The deadliest was the Tubbs Fire, which alone killed 22 people. 43 1900 Tacoma streetcar disaster: Accident – railroad Tacoma, Washington: 43 1915 1915 Ardmore gas explosion Accident – railroad Ardmore, Oklahoma: $1,250,000
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The five children who d ied in an Arizona house fire over the weekend were unsupervised after the father of four of them left to go holiday shopping, police said.. The children were not identified ...
Herrin massacre: [30] Thirty-six people are killed, 21 of them non-union miners, during a coal-mine strike at Herrin, Illinois. July 1922 (United States) Great Railroad Strike of 1922. [30] 15 November 1922 (Ecuador) A three-day general strike in Guayaquil ends after police and military kill at least 300 strikers. 1 September 1922 (United States)