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New Mexico - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 9th May, 2011 - 5:50pm
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New Mexico Culture
The capital of New Mexico is Santa Fe and the State was admitted to the Union on: January 6, 1912. Feel free to add what you know about the Culture and Traditions of this State.
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Within the 1900s New Mexico has:
* 1910 New Mexico Constitution drafted in preparation for statehood.
* 1912 New Mexico admitted to the Union as the 47th state.
* 1916 Pancho Villa raids Columbus, New Mexico.
* 1920 Adoption of the 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote.
* 1922 Secretary of State Soledad Chacon elected first woman to hold statewide office.
* 1923-24 Oil is discovered on the Navajo Reservation.
* 1930-43 Great Depression. Federal New Deal funds provide employment for many and causes numerous public buildings to be constructed.
* 1942-45 New Mexico soldiers serving in the 200th Coast Artillery during World War II are captured by the Japanese and forced to endure the Bataan Death March. Secret atomic laboratories established at Los Alamos.
* 1945 World's first atomic bomb detonated at Trinity Site in southern New Mexico after its development at Los Alamos.
* 1948 Native Americans win the right to vote in state elections.
* 1950 Uranium discovered near Grants.
* 1966 New state capital building, the "Roundhouse" is dedicated.
* 1969 Proposed new state constitution is rejected by voters.
* 1982 Space shuttle Columbia lands at White Sands Space Harbor on Hollomon Air Force Base near Alamogordo.
* 1992 New Mexico observes Columbus Quincentenary, welcomes Cristobal Colon XX.
* 1995 New Mexico begins to prepare for its Quatercentenary in 1998.
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Spring Snow Creates Hazardous Driving Conditions
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The New Mexico transportation department says a spring storm has created difficult driving conditions on some northern New Mexico highways.Interstate 25 from Raton to Raton Pass has one to two ...
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Case Of 4 Teens Killed In DWI Crash Goes To Trial
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The man accused of crashing into and killing four teenagers while driving drunk will go on trial this week.Police said Scott Owens was drunk when he slammed into a car full of teens 22 months ago. ...
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Unfinished homes attract vandals, frustrate neighbors
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Posted at: 04/18/2011 8:44 AM By: Jeff Maher, KOB Eyewitness News 4 A group of residents in southwest Albuquerque are fed up with a cluster of unfinished homes they say are attracting ...
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3-Year-Old Didn't Die From Mom's Abuse, Grandmother Says
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The grandmother of the late Leland Valdez said his mother never did anything to harm the 3-year-old.Valdez died in a hospital room in January. Investigators called it a severe case of child abuse, ...
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Suspected mobile meth lab closes Albuquerque street
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Posted at: 05/02/2011 7:55 AM By: Kurt Christopher, KOB.com The Albuquerque police bomb squad closed Rio Grande Boulevard for about an hour Monday morning. Police tell KOB Eyewitness ...
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9/11 Survivor Finds Closure In Bin Laden's Death
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An Albuquerque woman who was buried alive as the World Trade Center collapsed on Sept. 11 shared her story of survival, and said she finally may be able to put that horrible past behind her.Tiffany ...
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