1927: Leo, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion, is en route from San Diego to New York when the Ryan monoplane — with its specially constructed cage of glass over steel bars — crashes in the Mogollon Rim, 60 miles north of Roosevelt Lake. Pilot Martin Jenson finds his way to the Apache Lodge and cowboys locate the wreckage and rescue Leo.
1929: For the first time the waters of the Coolidge Dam produce electric power when Supervisor Theodore Rose opens the gates into the turbine which starts the generators.
Also in 1929: University of Arizona students ban hazing on or off campus.
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