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1989 1st U.S. private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight (NM)

1986 KOB-TV in Albuquerque NM's final transmission

1984 Mai Shanley, 21, (NM), crowned 33rd Miss USA

1982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, New Mexico

1982 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands, NM

1967 Kent Jones, Portales, New Mexico, golfer, NM State Amateur-1990-91

1957 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)

1956 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM

1954 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM

1951 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico

1949 V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km

1946 U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

1946 1st U.S. launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km alt

1918 Nilda Pinto, [NM Geerdink-Jesurun P], Curacao writer, Nanzi

1916 Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12

1854 Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million



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