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The Bighorn Fire was a wildfire in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, Arizona. [3] It burned 119,987 acres (48,557 ha) until it was finally put out on July 23, 2020.
Tucson is a 1949 American drama film directed by William F. Claxton, written by Arnold Belgard and starring Jimmy Lydon, Penny Edwards, Deanna Wayne, Charles Russell, Joe Sawyer and Walter Sande. It was released on April 27, 1949 by 20th Century-Fox .
It was moved to Tucson in 1775 where Hugo O'Conor, an Irishman working for the Spanish crown, officially founded Presidio San Augustin del Tucson. [2] The Spanish stayed in the area, fighting down repeated attacks on the fort by Apache warriors. In 1821, Tucson became part of the new state of Sonora in Mexico, who had won independence from Spain.
March 1: First day of Ramadan (2025); Disability Day of Mourning; Saint David's Day; Independence Day in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Longtaitou Festival in China (2025); Yap Day in Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia
1732 – Mission San Xavier del Bac founded by Jesuits near present-day Tucson. [1] 1776 – Presidio San Augustin del Tucson (military outpost) established. [1] 1779 – December 6: First Battle of Tucson. 1782 May 1: Second Battle of Tucson. December 25: Third Battle of Tucson (1782). 1784 – March 21: Fourth Battle of Tucson, Sonora, New Spain.
The film provides insight into the controversy surrounding the Mexican-American Studies (MAS), or Raza studies, program in Tucson, Arizona. In 1997, the Tucson Unified School District's governing board unanimously voted to create a Hispanic Studies Department in all of their schools, with the goal of lowering the Latino dropout rate.
The Tucson Film and Music festival launched in 2005, with a screening of the Tucson music documentary High and Dry, and the 20th anniversary of the Club Congress, the long-running nightclub west of the Mississippi. Over 40 local bands, many of whom were reuniting for the first time in years, played the Labor Day weekend festivities and the new ...
Media related to Barack Obama Tucson memorial speech at Wikimedia Commons; Tragedy in Arizona Video and transcript on the White House web site. "President and First Lady Honor Victims" video of memorial on C-SPAN.org "Obama's Tucson speech transcript: Full text of prepared remarks". The Washington Post. January 13, 2011.