The first person to introduce the ragtime influence to gospel accompaniment as well as to play the piano on a gospel recording was Ms. Arizona Dranes.

She was believed to be of both African-American and Mexican descent, but recent research by Michael Corcoran for the book / CD " He Is My Story: the Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes " ( Tompkins Square ) disproves Mexican heritage.

The first recorded gospel sanctified barrelhouse piano player, Arizona Dranes, was blind, as was Al Hibbler and Ray Charles, one of the most important figures in the creation of soul music.

On November 2, 1889, while transporting Apache Indian prisoners to Yuma State Prison, he and Deputy Sheriff Williams Holmes, were overpowered outside of Kelvin, Arizona and killed by them.

Warner Leroy Baxter ( March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951 ) was an American actor, known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona ( 1929 ), for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1928 – 1929 Academy Awards.

* Canyon Diablo Train Robbery, Arizona ( 1889 )

On 5 August 2011, the first sanctioned bout in the United States since 1889 took place at Fort McDowell Casino in Arizona between Rich Stewart of New Castle, Delaware and Bobby Gunn, with Gunn emerging as the victor.

Remington's Cavalry in an Arizona Sandstorm ( c. 1889 )

Born at Fort Apache, Arizona, Upham was appointed to the United States Naval Academy on 6 September 1889 and graduated on 2 June 1893.

17 History of Arizona and New Mexico 1530-1888 ) ( 1889 )

He once again served as district attorney for Pinal County, Arizona in 1889 and 1890.

He received an appointment in the Department of the Interior in 1885, as special Indian agent in Arizona and Nevada, and he served until 1889.

* 1871 – The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.

* Pick Up Stix – California, Arizona and Nevada

The Falcons would go on to lose in the wild-card round of the 2008 NFL playoffs to the eventual NFC champion Arizona Cardinals, 30 – 24.

Arizona had postseason victories over the St. Louis Cardinals ( 3 – 2 in the NLDS ) and the Atlanta Braves ( 4 – 1 in the NLCS ) to advance to the World Series where, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City, they beat the three-time reigning champions, the New York Yankees, 4 to 3, to become the youngest expansion franchise to win the World Series ( in just their fourth season of play ).

* Arcosanti. org – Official Webpage for a prototype arcological development in Arizona

* 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

During Selig's terms as Executive Council Chairman ( from 1992 – 1998 ) and Commissioner, new stadiums have opened in Arizona, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Arlington, St. Louis, Washington, D. C., New York City ( Flushing, Queens and the Bronx ), Minneapolis, and Miami.

Daniel Barringer ( 1860 – 1929 ) was one of the first to identify an impact crater, Meteor Crater in Arizona ; to crater specialists the site is referred to as Barringer Crater in his honor.

However, the Panthers ' season came to a crushing end, as they lost to the Arizona Cardinals 33 – 13 at Bank of America Stadium in the NFC Divisional playoff game.

After a 4 – 1 start, the club lost its next eight games and struggled to a 77 – 85 record, finishing only ahead of the expansion Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL West.

The Rockies trailed the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres for most of 2007 Major League Baseball season – however – by August, Colorado showed a steady series of wins, while the Division-leading Dodgers began to struggle.

That pushed the Rockies ' combined late-season ( September 16 and after ) and post-season run to 20 wins and just 1 loss, the single loss coming against Arizona on September 28, 2007 – the 160th game of the regular season.

The fourth game of the NLCS was won by the Rockies by a score of 6 – 4, completing a four-game sweep of Arizona.

For the years 1942 – 1943 Alston was stationed in the army at Fort Huachuca in Arizona.

Gailey led the team to two playoff appearances with a 10 – 6 record in 1998 and an NFC East championship, but the Cowboys were defeated in the playoffs by the Arizona Cardinals 20-7 ; after an 8 – 8 season in 1999 ( during which Irvin suffered a career-ending spinal injury in a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles ) ending in another playoff loss ( this time to the Minnesota Vikings 27-10 ), he was fired and became the first Cowboys coach who did not take the team to a Super Bowl.

In 2008 the rivalry became more intense when in the last game of the year in which both teams could clinch a playoff spot with a victory, the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Cowboys 44 – 6, and clinched a playoff spot, where they would go to lose the NFC Championship game to the Arizona Cardinals.

* 1962 – The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.

* 1912 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th U. S. state.

* 1863 – Arizona is organized as a United States territory.

* 1917 – World War I: The U. S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.

* 1999 – The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.

* Rawghlie Clement Stanford ( 1879 – 1963 ), 9th governor of Arizona

In 1962 and 1963, Wilder lived twenty months in the small town of Douglas, Arizona, apart from family and friends.

He made the Court a power center on a more even base with Congress and the presidency especially through four landmark decisions: Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ), Gideon v. Wainwright ( 1963 ), Reynolds v. Sims ( 1964 ), and Miranda v. Arizona ( 1966 ).

In the summer of 1962, he was promoted to the position of territorial manager for California, Nevada, and Arizona, and moved to San Francisco ; and in the spring of 1963 to Los Angeles.

The U-2s were relocated to Davis – Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, Arizona, in July 1963, and Laughlin's mission transitioned to the Undergraduate Pilot Training mission in the T-37 and T-38 aircraft.

* On October 29, 1963, two Aeronautical Chart and Information Center cartographers, James A. Greenacre and Edward Barr, at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, manually recorded very bright red, orange, and pink colour phenomena on the southwest side of Cobra Head ; a hill southeast of the lunar valley Vallis Schröteri ; and the southwest interior rim of the Aristarchus crater.

Stewart believed that the majority on the Warren Court had adopted readings of the First Amendment Establishment Clause ( Engel v. Vitale ( 1962 ), Abington School District v. Schempp ( 1963 )), the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination ( Miranda v. Arizona ( 1966 )), and Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of Equal Protection with regard to voting rights ( Reynolds v. Sims ( 1964 )) went beyond the framers ' intention.

That case extended to minors the right to be informed of rights and the right to an attorney, which had been granted to adults in Miranda v. Arizona ( 1966 ) and Gideon v. Wainwright ( 1963 ), respectively.

These institutions started as a joint project with the Laboratory of Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Arizona in 1963 to develop methods of desalinization of sea water.

Graduated from Ponaganset High School ( North Scituate, Rhode Island ) in 1963 ; received a bachelor of science degree in General Engineering from the United States Military Academy in 1967 and a master of science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1974.

Rawghlie Clement Stanford ( August 2, 1879 – December 15, 1963 ) was the fifth Governor of Arizona and served from 1937 to 1939.

He was then elected to the Phoenix City Council of Phoenix in 1960, and a Judge of the Superior Court of Arizona in 1963.

DeConcini received his Bachelors Degree from the University of Arizona in 1959 and his LLD from the University of Arizona in 1963.

In 1963, he and Webb flew to Arizona ; he appeared at a newspaper publishing convention inebriated and / or manic.

* Dance Daughters ,-Yuma Art Center, Yuma, Arizona, 1963

They failed to halt development and in 1963 efforts to arrange a land exchange failed in the Arizona State legislature.

Educated in Poland, Wisniewski moved in 1963 to the USA to work an astronomy professor at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson Arizona.

After graduating Compton High School, Williams enrolled at Arizona State University and won the NCAA championships in 440 yd in 1963 and 400 m in 1964.

Even then Arizona continued to dispute its water allotments until a 1963 Supreme Court decision settled the issue.

Pericles Plantagenet James Casati Wyatt ( born 1963 ), became an owner and operator of water parks and recreational-vehicle camps in Arizona ;< ref >