History

Did you know that the Declaration of Independence wasn’t actually signed on the Fourth of July? That’s the day the document was formally dated, finalized and adopted by the Continental Congress, which had officially voted for independence on July 2.

On June 13, 1971, The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a collection of top-secret documents exposing the U.S. strategy in the Vietnam War. The papers serve as a United States Department of Defense timeline of the country’s political and military involvement in Vietnam.

The name of Yuma’s Kofa High School has an interesting evolution. The school, which has an enrollment of nearly 2,200 students in ninth through 12th grades, shares its name with the Kofa Mountains. The mountains were named after the rich King of Arizona gold mine, discovered in King Valley in 1896 and active 1897 to 1910.

During the Great Depression, a young entrepreneur named Vernon Rudolph purchased a unique recipe for fluffy doughnuts. In 1937, he opened shop in Winston-Salem, and the Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation was born.

“How pleasant then, if we’re going to fight them in the shade.” So said Spartan King Leonidas, when told Persian archers at Thermopylae were so numerous their arrows would blot out the sun.

The United States needs your help gathering information for the 2020 census. The Census Bureau is hiring 200,000 people to work in communities to accomplish census goals.

The Arizona Hotshots have begun play in the Alliance of American Football, a new football league.

Between 1854 and 1929, over 250,000 orphans and unwanted children were taken out of New York City and sent west to find new homes in the largest child migration in American history. Forty were brought to Clifton-Morenci, Arizona, in 1904.

Officially named Our Lady of Perpetual Help Mission Church, this Scottsdale property is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the federal government’s list of historic properties and archaeological resources considered worthy of preservation.

According to a report by the National Council for Home Safety and Security, Florence is the safest town in Arizona, overall.