Sunday, May 28
On this date in 1909, two bankers who wrecked the First National Bank in Bisbee were given the minimum sentence of five years in prison.
On this date in 1910, the Pima County Board of Supervisors offered $500 for the arrest and conviction of the killers of stage line operator and rancher Oscar Buckalew.
On this date in 1910, Red Springs, a community located eight miles north of Globe and considered a suburb of Miami, was practically wiped out by fire which destroyed 19 of the 23 houses in town.
On this date in 1912, Executive Order 1538 set aside the Ak Chin Reservation for the Maricopa Indians.
On this date in 1918, Matthew B. Rivers, a Pima Indian, became the first Arizonan to be killed in action in World War I. He died in Catigny, France as a member of Company K, 28th Infantry.
Monday, May 29
On this date in 1856, Camp Moore in the Sonoita Valley was renamed Fort Buchanan.
On this date in 1873, a troop of the 5th Cavalry established a camp on the San Carlos River near Gila. It became the headquarters for the military government of the San Carlos Indian Agency.
On this date in 1895, the University of Arizona held its first commencement with three graduates.
On this date in 1998, former Sen. Barry Goldwater, who served five terms as a U.S. senator for Arizona and who lost a bid for the presidency in 1964, dies at age 89 at his home in Paradise Valley.
On this date in 2011, the Wallow Fire breaks out in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest and goes on to become at the time the largest wildfire in Arizona. The fire was caused by a campfire started by two cousins.
Tuesday, May 30
On this date in 1864, a group of residents along Granite Creek met and established the town of Prescott, named after historian William Hickling Prescott.
On this date in 1910, President William Howard Taft signed Proclamation 1043, establishing Rainbow Bridge National Monument.
On this date in 1910, Richard Gird, partner of Ed and Al Schiefflin in the founding of Tombstone, and known in later years as the “father of the California beet sugar industry,” died.
On this date in 1935, the governors of Arizona and Utah met at Boulder City to unveil a memorial plaque dedicated to the 89 men killed during construction of Boulder Dam.
Wednesday, May 31
On this date in 1910, the Maricopa Reservation was quarantined because of an outbreak of whooping cough and measles.
On this date in 1923, Pipe Spring, a Mormon settlement, fort and site of the first telegraph station in Arizona territory, was made a national monument.
On this date in 1929, Lady Mary Heath, British aviatrix, stopped in Yuma during her aerial tour of the United States.
Thursday, June 1
On this date in 1868, the eighth and final treaty between the Navajo Nation and the United States was concluded at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. This treaty included the establishment of the present Navajo Indian Reservation.
On this date in 1906, the mule-drawn street car made its last run to the gates of the University of Arizona beside the electric car which had gone into operation five days before.
On this date in 1910, fire destroyed the stable of the Pioneer Transfer Co. in Phoenix. Four horses were burned to death.
Friday, June 2
On this date in 1913, Sarah Greenway, sister of John C. Greenway, lit a fire in the new 3,000 ton Calumet & Arizona smelter at Douglas. A big community celebration marked the dedication of what was then the largest and most modern smelter in the United States.
On this date in 1930, radio station KTAR brought the first national broadcast network to Arizona through its affiliation with NBC.
On this date in 1935, three carloads of dynamite were detonated to open the New Cornelia mine site at Ajo and 400,000 tons of rock were dislodged.
On this date in 1976, a bomb exploded beneath the car of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles in a parking lot of a Phoenix hotel. Bolles died 11 days later.
Saturday, June 3
On this date in 1901, Richard McCormick, first territorial secretary and second territorial governor of Arizona, died.
On this date in 1913, stockholders of the African Land and Irrigation Co. decided to construct a two-story building in Tucson as headquarters for the organization of Southern Arizona Negroes.
On this date in 1936, a convict at Florence State Prison attempted to escape and elude prison bloodhounds by swimming 16 miles through irrigation canals to Picacho Lake, towing his lunch in a gallon milk pail.
On this day in 1996, record temperatures were reported in Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff and Wilcox. The mercury in Phoenix hit 111, just one degree hotter than the record for June 3, which was set in 1987 and tied in 1990. The temperature at Tucson International Airport reached 107 degrees, tying a 1990 record. Flagstaff hit 86 degrees, matching a record set in 1988, and in Wilcox, the mercury rose to 102 degrees, the hottest for a June 3 since 1956.
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