1893: A Phoenix court reporter invents and applies for the patent on a center space bar, which would be operated by the thumb for typewriters.
1921: The postmaster at Ruby, Arizona, and his wife are murdered by bandits.
1936: A Parker high school, completed five days earlier, is struck by lightning and burns to the ground.
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