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The Father's Day Bank Massacre was a bank robbery and shooting that took place on Sunday, June 16, 1991, at the United Bank Tower (now the Wells Fargo Center) in Denver, Colorado, United States. The perpetrator killed four unarmed bank guards and held up six tellers in the bank's cash vault. An estimated $200,000 was stolen from the bank.
Defender. Officer Ashley Ferris. On December 27, 2021, a mass shooting occurred in downtown Denver and later moved to Lakewood, Colorado, United States where 47-year-old Lyndon McLeod fatally shot five people and wounded two others. [1] McLeod was fatally shot by Lakewood Police Agent Ashley Ferris, after the two exchanged gunfire.
The Holiday Blizzard I was an intense blizzard that covered the Colorado Front Range, the Colorado Eastern Plains and surrounding states. It began on December 20, 2006 with a powerful blizzard which crippled the region, forcing the closures of Interstate Highways 25, 76 and 70, as well as U.S. Routes 36 and 85.
The Colorado Mission was opened on December 15, 1896, with John W. Taylor as president. This mission was renamed the Western States Mission on April 1, 1907, then the Colorado-New Mexico Mission on June 10, 1970, then the Colorado Mission on October 10, 1972, and the Colorado Denver Mission on June 20, 1974.
Guadaloupe County was the first Colorado county to be renamed after only six days in 1861. 8. Las Animas County was the first new Colorado county to be created (in 1866) after the original 17 counties. 9. Greenwood County was the longest lived former Colorado county, existing four years from 1870 to 1874. 10.
The Marshall Fire was a destructive wildfire and urban conflagration that started on December 30, 2021, shortly after 11:00 a.m. MST, [3] as a grass fire in Boulder County, Colorado. [4] The fire killed two people and became the most destructive fire in Colorado history in terms of buildings destroyed, [quantify] surpassing the 2013 Black ...
December – The Regents of CU vote to rename the Denver Center to University of Colorado Denver. 1973 Patricia Schroeder becomes the first woman U.S. representative from Colorado when elected by Colorado's 1st congressional district. Denver Botanic Gardens acquires Chatfield Arboretum site in southern Jefferson County. 1974
Red Ball, is an annual charity fashion event for AIDS Awareness and in honor of World AIDS day held in Denver, Colorado. It is put on by the nonprofit Colorado Health Network (Formerly The Denver Colorado AIDS Project) [1] to "Ignite Awareness for World AIDS Day". [2] [3] [4] Held once a year, the event typically coincides with World AIDS Day ...