1. In 1937, the ruins of an ancient city called Pueblo Bonito were discovered in Chaco Canyon. This site is thought to have been built by the Ancestral Pueblo people over 1,000 years ago.

2. On June 11, 1883, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway completed its line through Albuquerque, connecting the city to the rest of the country by rail. This helped spur growth and economic development in the region.

3. The Trinity Test, the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, took place on July 16, 1945, but preparations for the test began weeks earlier in New Mexico. On June 11, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory began assembling the bomb's plutonium core.

4. In 2013, a wildfire in the Gila Wilderness became the largest in New Mexico history, burning over 300,000 acres of forest. The fire, which began on May 16, was not fully contained until July 10.

5. On June 11, 1996, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp honoring the Navajo code talkers, who played a crucial role in World War II by developing a code based on their native language that helped the Allies communicate securely in the Pacific theater. Many of these code talkers were from New Mexico.