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Featured article Firefighting team near the Frye Fire The Frye Fire was a wildfire that burned 48,443 acres (19,604 ha) in Graham County, Arizona, United States, from June 7 to September 1, 2017. The fire was ignited by a lightning strike on Mount Graham, within the Coronado National Forest, and spread rapidly until it was mostly contained on July 12. The fire destroyed three buildings and briefly threatened the Mount Graham International Observatory. It cost $26 million (equivalent to $32 million in 2023) to contain and suppress, and involved more than 800 firefighters. There were no fatalities, but 63 firefighters were quarantined with strep throat. During seasonal rains beginning in July, ash and debris from the Frye Fire's burn scar washed off the mountain slopes, then clogged creeks and damaged infrastructure within Graham County. The fire particularly impacted the endangered Mount Graham red squirrel, whose remaining habitat on Mount Graham was devastated. (Full article...) Recently featured: Titanis Battle Birds Laysan honeycreeper Zimmerman Telegram Zimmerman Telegram On February 24, .. 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announced the Gregorian calendar. 1803 - Marbury v. Madison established judicial review in the U.S. 1917 - The Zimmermann Telegram was delivered, complicating World War I. 1999 - Arizona executed German national Karl LaGrand. Recent days: February 23 - February 22 More events in history... Did you know ...? Nikolay Cherkasov as Ivan the Terrible ... that Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible (scene pictured) has been named as both one of the worst films and one of the greatest films of all time? ... that Olympian Sydney Francisco was named after the city where her mother competed at the Olympics? ... that the December 2010 Christchurch earthquake caused Boxing Day sales events six weeks later? ... that a judge compared the bankruptcy fraud of an Ohio TV station to a 1601 English court case? ... that the surviving copies of the Kitab-ı Bahriye contain a total of more than 5,700 maps? ... that the 1920 foxtrot song "I'll See You in C-U-B-A" was an example of Cuba being perceived as "America's playground"? ... that 30 royal portraits of Korean kings were completely destroyed in a 1954 fire in Busan, South Korea? ... that Babydog is "a fixture in West Virginia politics"?	In the news Mil Mi-8 helicopter A Mil Mi-8 helicopter (aircraft pictured) crashes in Kamchatka, Russia, leaving 22 people dead. The Summer Paralympics open in Paris, France. More than four hundred people are killed in an Islamist militant attack in Barsalogho Department, Burkina Faso. The Islamic State claims responsibility for a mass stabbing that killed three people at a festival in Solingen, Germany. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war timeline Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Hvaldimir Linda Deutsch Abu Shujaa Bob Carr Rodolfo Hernández Suárez Danelle Barrett Holidays {{Holidays}} Obituaries Italian cyclist Marco Pantani died suddenly at a hotel in Rimini, Italy on February 14. Former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was killed in an apparent car bomb explosion on February 13. Former leader of the Canadian liberal party, Claude Ryan, died from stomach cancer on February 9 at age 79. More recent deaths...
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