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1806 Pike expedition: During his second exploratory expedition, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike
sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains
(it was later named Pikes Peak in his honor).
1861 Colorado is organized as a United States territory
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1864 Indian Wars
: Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 400 Cheyenne
and Arapahoe noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado (where they had been given permission to camp).
1876 Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state
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1893 Colorado women are granted the right to vote.
November Local Government Act given second reading in House of Commons
1903 Colorado Governor James Hamilton Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.
1940 U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division
(previously a National Guard Division in Arizona
, Colorado, New Mexico
, and Oklahoma
), activated and ordered into federal service for one year to engage in a training program in Ft. Sill and Louisiana
prior to serving in World War II
.
1949 February 22 - Series of winter storms in Nebraska
, Wyoming
, South Dakota
, Utah
, Colorado and Nevada
- winds of up to 72 mph - tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish
1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower
authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
1970 The Wichita State University football team's "Gold" plane crashes in Colorado, killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with Utah State University.
1972 The first U.S. Libertarian Party National Convention is held in Denver, Colorado.
1972 The first Rainbow Gathering held in Colorado.
1994 Fourteen firefighters die in the South Canyon wildfire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado. The event inspired the 1999 book ''Fire on the Mountain''.
1996 Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States
rules, in ''Romer v. Evans'', against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of homosexuals
.
1999 Columbine High School massacre: Two Littleton, Colorado teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, open fire on their teachers and classmates. The teenagers kill 12 students and one teacher, and then themselves.
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