When the Manhattan Project was undertaken in Los Alamos NM, they created a new county (Los Alamos County) which was barely larger than the town itself. It was originally part of Sandoval County, which is where I live.
So I’m saying the Manhattan Project, even though Los Alamos was technically no longer part of Sandoval County. It’s the closest thing we have to a newsworthy event, unless you count a supervolcano exploding a couple of million years ago, creating the Valles Caldera.
Well, I was trying to find historical items rather than murders, of which we have so many. Long ago, I worked in a downtown law office & met several murderers–nobody famous. And I once met Dr Hill’s widow.
Clifford Irving’s Daddy’s Girl documents a couple of murders committed by a guy (& his girlfriend) who hung out at Rudyard’s–as I did. I never knew him because he seemed like a loser.
The Poe Elementary School Bombing, September 15, 1959, happened at a school in the nice area near Rice University; six people died. One student later “felt angered and betrayed by society for its seeming lack of compassion for the Poe victims, some of whom already suffered from generalized atomic bomb angst.” I knew him as a young man; then he went out to California & eventually to Guyana.
I was raised on the coastal prairie between Houston & Galveston, so the Battle & the Disasters happened near “my” home. Despite all the death, those stories seem less grim than the murders…
The 1968 Democratic National Convention?
The 2008 Presidential Election victory celebration?
I attended Jennie Katharine Kolter Elementary, named after one of the teachers who died in the Poe bombing. Her niece was one of my teachers. We were told the story of Ms. Kolter’s bravery during the first assembly of the school year.