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 * On August 13, 2020, the Cameron Peak Fire ignited which would surpass the Pine Gulch Fire to become the most extensive wild fire in Colorado history.
 * On March 13, 2020, a woman in El Paso County became the first person in Colorado to die from the COVID-19 virus.
 * On July 31, 2020, lightning ignited the Pine Gulch Fire which would surpass the Hayman Fire of 2002 to become the most extensive wild fire in Colorado history.
 * On October 14, 2020, the East Troublesome Fire ignited which would also surpass the Pine Gulch Fire to become the second most extensive wild fire in Colorado history. Experts say the onslaught of 2020 Colorado wild fires was aggravated by climate change.
 * On December 30, 2021, the Marshall Fire killed two people and destroyed 1,084 homes and seven businesses and damaged another 149 homes and 40 businesses
 * U.S. President James Buchanan signed the organic act creating the free Territory of Colorado on February 28, 1861.
 * The Union Pacific Railroad was completed west to Julesburg on November 18, 1867.
 * Deer Trail hosted the world's first organized rodeo on July 4, 1869.
 * The first of what would become the Colorado State Fair opened in Pueblo on October 9, 1872, four years before Colorado became a state.
 * U.S. President Ulysses Grant signed the presidential declaration admitting the State of Colorado to the Union on August 1, 1876.
 * Katherine Lee Bates wrote America the Beautiful after a trip to the summit of Pikes Peak in the summer of 1893.