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The New York Giants defeat the New England Patriots. [221] In Phoenix, Squaw Peak is renamed Piestewa Peak, in honor of the first Native American woman killed in combat, Lori Piestewa. [221] 2009 Phoenix Civic Space Park opens. Freeport-McMoRan Center built in Phoenix. Arizona Cardinals lose to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII. [221]
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 ...
The New York Giants defeat the New England Patriots. [70] Squaw Peak renamed Piestewa Peak, in honor of the first Native American woman killed in combat, Lori Piestewa. [70] 2009 Phoenix Civic Space Park opens. Sculpture Her Secret Is Patience installed. Freeport-McMoRan Center built. Arizona Cardinals lose to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super ...
On June 25, six firefighters were killed in a burn over. Including the first female wildland firefighter killed in Arizona. It was Arizona's worst forest fire in history at the time. Lightning Ponderosa Pine / Pine-Oak woodland Coconino 28,000 ac 44 sq.mi. 11,331 ha 63 6 0 1994 Rattlesnake Fire Scorched the peak of Chiricahua Peak in Douglas ...
1947 New York City smallpox outbreak: disease 2 [172] 1929 1929 Yankee Stadium stampede: mass unrest 2 [173] 1835 Great Fire of New York: fire 2 [174] 2020 2020 New York City Subway fire: rail 1 [175] 2019 2019 New York City helicopter crash aircraft 1 [176] 2007 2007 New York City steam explosion: explosion 1 [163] 1995 Williamsburg Bridge ...
New York Harbor: 33 people killed in first fire, four people killed in second fire several days later 37 1976 American Airlines Flight 625: Accident – aircraft Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands: 37 1994 USAir Flight 1016: Accident – aircraft Charlotte, North Carolina: 36 1846 USS Somers (1842) Accident – shipwreck Off Veracruz
The Arizona Territory is admitted to the union of the United States, as the 48th U.S state. [1] George W. P. Hunt is elected the first governor of Arizona. [2] November 5 – 1912 United States presidential election in Arizona. [3]