University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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i buses replace electric trolleys. Pioneer Hotel opens and the 1 st Tucson YMCA begins. 1 935 Margaret Slee starts the first birth control clinic here. She later founded the Planned Parenthood movement. 1 951 State Leg. repeals the school segregation law, and Tucson District One becomes the first in the state to desegre- gate. 1953 First commercial tv station (Channel 13) begins broadcasting with call letters KOPO, later KOLD. 1960 Tucson ' s population leaps to 21 2, 892. 1970 UA enrollment sur- passes 25,000 students. Pima Community College opens. The Pioneer Hotel burns, killing 28 persons. It was the worst land disaster in the state ' s history. 1971 The $17.6 million Tucson Community Center opens. 1974 Gerald Ford becomes one of the half-dozen presidents to pass through Tuc- son. 1975 200 years, we made it!!! University diary: 1885 to today 1 885 What would become the University of Arizona was considered undesirable when the 13th Territorial Legislature awarded it to Tucson. The townspeople had sent money to woo the state capital to Tucson, but that prize went to Prescott. As a second choice, they wanted an insane asylum, which ended up in Phoenix. 1 887 Ground was broken for Old Main, the first building at UA. It is now in the National Register of Historic Places. The university ' s first motto was Come with us and we will do you good. 1891 UA begins first day of classes on Oct. 1 . 1 895 When the UA ' s first class of 1895 graduated, uni- versity administration urged the populace to come to the eve- ning festivities to see electric lights in operation at Old Main. Tucson had water and gas before it had electricity, (continued) ua 1 886 25

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Tucson s diary: 1775 to today 1775 Col. Hugo Oconor was sent by the viceroy of New Spain to relocate four military outposts, one of which he placed near the Santa Cruz River and named San Augustin deTuixon. 1783 The Franciscan Padres began their church, San Xavier del Bac, the White Dove of the Desert, which stands today. 1 797 This year in Tucson there were 79 civilian settlers outside the fort. 1862 The farthest west battle of the Civil War was fought at Picacho Peak. Five men were killed. 1863 President Abraham Tucson in 1884 (Az. Historical Society photo) Lincoln signed into law a bill creating the territory of Arizona. 1 867 Tucson became the capital of the state and remained so for ten years. 1 848 The Treaty of Gua- dalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexi- can-American War. The U.S. got, among other things, all of Arizona north of the Gila. 1 853 Col. James Gadsden completed arrangements with Mexico to purchase the land south of the Gila. 1877 In this year when Tucson became an incorpo- rated city it contained: two hotels, a courthouse, a jail, 15 general stores, two breweries, one bank, ten saloons, two flour mills, four livery stables, a public school with 300 students, two jewelry stores and several other small establishments. 1 880 Tucson nuns added further luster to the town by opening St. Mary ' s Hospital. 1883 The Tucson Police Dept. was established. 1907 A court ruled that cattlemen and miners would be allowed to wear their guns for two hours after their arrival in town, and that poker would be illegal only if played in public. 1912 Arizona was admit- ted to the union on Feb. 1 4. 1921 - - All through the year there was a financial Depres- sion. But in Tucson, the condi- tions were reported to be better than the rest of the country. 3,373 hobos were flushed out of SP freights in the Tucson divi- sion in one month alone. 1925 The city acquires 1280 acres for a military airfield that was to be named for two Tucsonans, Sam Davis and Oscar Monthan. 1927 More than 20,000 Arizonans greeted the Spirit of St. Louis, which, piloted by Charles Lindburgh, lands in Tucson. 1931 Gasoline-powered 24 tucson bicentennial

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