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 * The 2013 Colorado floods struck the northeastern Front Range region beginning September 11, 2013, causing extensive flood damage.
 * On June 8, 2002, a U.S. Forest Service technician accidentally started the Hayman Fire which became the most extensive wild fire in Colorado history.
 * U.S. Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton signed an order elevating the national monument to Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve on September 13, 2004.
 * President George W. Bush defeated Colorado native John Kerry in the November 2, 2004 election for President of the United States.
 * Senator Barack Obama accepted the nomination of the Democratic National Convention for President of the United States in Denver on August 28, 2008.
 * The population of Colorado first exceeded five million in 2009.
 * Workers uncovered a trove of mammoth, mastodon, and other Pleistocene fossils near Snowmass Village on October 14, 2010.
 * President Barack Obama issued a proclamation creating Chimney Rock National Monument on September 21, 2012.
 * The Black Forest fire began on June 11, 2013, destroying 486 homes, the most in Colorado history
 * Colorado became the first state to legalize cannabis for recreational use on January 1, 2014.
 * President Barack Obama issued a proclamation creating Browns Canyon National Monument on February 19, 2015.