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1943 – POW Camp Albuquerque established. 1946 – U.S. military Sandia Base (nuclear weapons installation) active. [28] 1947 – Old Town Historical Society established. [31] 1948 – Ernie Pyle House/Library branch established. 1949 – Old Town annexed to city. [28] 1954 – Simms Building constructed. 1956 – Albuquerque Petroleum Club ...
The history of Albuquerque, New Mexico dates back up to 12,000 years, beginning with the presence of Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers in the region. Gradually, these nomadic people adopted a more settled, agricultural lifestyle and began to build multi-story stone or adobe dwellings now known as pueblos by 750 CE.
Edward Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on July 27, 1938, into a family with a long history in New Mexico.His mother, Delphine Garcia, was indigenous to New Mexico and one of the first major female Mexican political activists in New Mexico.
The First National Bank Building housed the clinic from 1923 to 1950.. The clinic was established in 1922 by William Randolph Lovelace (1883–1968) [3] and his brother-in-law Edgar T. Lassetter (1875–1948), [4] both of whom had originally moved to New Mexico to recover from tuberculosis. [5]
In 1970, New Mexico Army National Guard soldiers were involved in an incident where they stabbed students at the University of New Mexico with their bayonets during protests. During the 1983–1989 time frame the New Mexico Army National Guard began a complete modernization program to gain high technology type units.
The University of New Mexico Hospital is the largest hospital in New Mexico with 628 licensed beds and is the primary teaching hospital for the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, the state's only medical school. It provides the state's only residency training programs, children's hospital, burn center, and level I pediatric and adult ...
The Albuquerque Veterans Administration Medical Center, at 2100 Ridgecrest, SE, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was built in 1932. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing included 16 contributing buildings and a contributing structure on 40 acres (16 ha).
The first newspaper in New Mexico was El Crepusculo de la Libertad ("The Dawn of Liberty"), a Spanish-language paper founded in 1834 at Taos. The Santa Fe Republican, founded in 1847, was the first English-language newspaper. By 2000 the state had 18 daily newspapers, 13 Sunday newspapers, and 25 weekly newspapers.