1. In 1847, the U.S. Army of the West under General Stephen W. Kearny arrived in Santa Fe, completing the conquest of New Mexico during the Mexican-American War.

2. On January 24, 1912, New Mexico was admitted to the Union as the 47th state, after a long struggle for statehood that lasted nearly six decades.

3. In 1961, Roswell native Robert Goddard was posthumously awarded the inaugural National Space Achievement Award for his pioneering work in rocketry, which laid the foundation for the Space Age.

4. The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science opened to the public on January 24, 1986, featuring exhibits on dinosaurs, fossils, geology, and astronomy.

5. On January 24, 2006, the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center was launched at the University of New Mexico, providing online access to historical documents and photographs from the controversial Indian boarding school that operated in Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1918.