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The Albuquerque area was settled by the Tiwa people beginning around 1250. By the 1500s, there were around 20 Tiwa pueblos along a 60-mile (97 km) stretch of the middle Rio Grande valley. The region was visited by Spanish conquistadores beginning with the expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in 1540–41, and began to be settled by ...
Albuquerque (/ ˈ æ l b ə k ɜːr k i / ⓘ AL-bə-kurk-ee; Spanish: [alβuˈkeɾke] ⓘ), [a] also known as ABQ, Burque, and the Duke City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico, [5] and the county seat of Bernalillo County.
1922 – First National Bank Building (Albuquerque) constructed. 1924 – Sunshine Theatre opens. [26] 1925 – Santa Fe Railway Shops (Albuquerque) built. 1926 – Courthouse relocated to New Town from Old Town. [3] 1927 Rio Grande Zoo opens. KiMo Theater built. [27] 1928 Oxnard Field, Albuquerque's first airport, is constructed. KGGM radio ...
Ross Shepard, 29 years old and Ben Hanes, 27 years old, were taken to their death when a stairway they were fighting fire from collapsed. They were the first two deaths in the line of duty from the department and remain, to this day, the only two to have been killed in a structure fire since the department was founded in 1905. [4]
The most widely broadcast radio station since its founding in 1922 has been KKOB (AM) in Albuquerque. With 50,000 watts of transmitter power on a clear channel it reaches audiences in most of New Mexico and parts of neighboring states. [41] There are at least five television stations, based in Albuquerque, representing ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and Fox.
May 19—Regina Suazo, 61, was blind and intellectually disabled. But she loved celebrating holidays, going out to lunch and trips to the thrift store. For 40 years, she had a very active and full ...
Matthew Reisen, Albuquerque Journal, N.M. November 3, 2023 at 11:59 PM Gilbert Gallegos of the Albuquerque Police Department said the incident is being investigated as a "possible justifiable ...
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...