History

The USS Arizona Memorial Gardens at Salt River honors those who were aboard the USS Arizona during the Pearl Harbor attack.

Miracle Mile Deli was founded in 1949 and has not only survived but thrived to become one of Phoenix’s classic dining institutions.

The on-premise cigar service industry started in Arizona. In 1995, Fumar Cigars began reaching out to the luxury hospitality world, providing rare and hard-to-find inventory and delivering the most-recognized and prized products in custom-made humidors designed for each location.

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.

In an effort to give a voice to those lost during those darkest of days in our history – the Holocaust – the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix, in partnership with over 50 Arizona nonprofits, schools and businesses, is proud to present Violins of Hope.