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1964 |
February 9: The Beatles performed on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. 73 million viewers tuned in.
July 2: President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, abolishing racial segregation in the United States.
December 10: Martin Luther King Jr. became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. |
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1965 |
June 28: Ground broke on the IBM plant along the Boulder-Longmont Diagonal, which triggered ongoing growth in the area.
October 16: Anti-war protesters drew 100,000 in 80 cities around the world, including several in the United States.
December 9: A Charlie Brown Christmas debuted on CBS and became an annual tradition.
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1967 |
January 15: First Superbowl game played.
May 18: Tennessee governor repealed the "Monkey Law."
June 1: The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a.k.a. the soundtrack to the Summer of Love.
June 12: The U.S. Supreme Court declared all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
August 30: Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
October 21: Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters marched in Washington D.C. Allen Ginsberg symbolically chanted to "levitate" the Pentagon.
Louis Winterberger took over managerial duties for the Hotel Boulderado. He and his wife, Gwen, encouraged permanent residents at the hotel to compensate for the drop-off in guests. One of these was an elderly Mr. Lawry, whose only source of income was his pension from the Spanish-American War.
Boulder residents voted to allow the sale of liquor, wine, and full-strength beer.
Boulder became first in the nation to impose a 0.4% sales tax to acquire, maintain, and manage areas of open space, leading to a greenbelt around the community.
Regularly scheduled railroad passenger service ended in Boulder. |
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1968 |
January 30: The Tet Offensive began as Viet Cong forces launched a series of surprise attacks across South Vietnam.
April 4: Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis.
September 7: 150 feminists protested the Miss America Pageant as exploitative of women.
November 14: Yale University announced it will accept female students.
Interstate-70 opened through the Mt. Vernon Canyon. |
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1969 |
February 8: After 147 years, the last issue of The Saturday Evening Post hit stands.
June 28: The Stonewall Riots in New York City marked the start of modern gay rights movement.
July 20: Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
September 2: First ATM machines installed in the United States.
August 15-18: Woodstock Music Festival
The Catacombs Bar opened in the basement of the Hotel Boulderado.
Celestial Seasonings was founded in Boulder.
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1970 |
March 18: U.S. Postal Service workers in New York City went on strike. The strike spread to other cities across the United States (including Denver) and lasted two weeks.
April 22: First Earth Day celebrated in the United States.
April 29: The United States invaded Cambodia to hunt out Viet Cong. Widespread large anti-war protests occur across the United States.
The University of Colorado's Regent Hall occupied by youthful anti-war demonstrators.
The Boulder Chamber of Commerce moved from the Hotel Boulderado into its own building on Canyon Boulevard.
Celestial Seasonings introduced one of their most popular teas, Sleepytime Herb Tea, along with the Sleepytime Bear.
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1971
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Boulder placed a height restriction on new buildings to protect its views of the foothills.
Penfield William Tate II became the first African-American city council member in Boulder. |
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1972 |
February 5: U.S. airlines began mandatory inspections of passengers and baggage.
March 22: U.S. Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
Summer: Beat writers William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg regularly met for drinks in Le Bar at the Hotel Boulderado.
June 15-18: The first U.S. Libertarian Party National Convention was held in Denver.
August 12: The last U.S. ground troops were withdrawn from Vietnam.
November 29: Atari released Pong, the first game to achieve commercial success.
The turnpike interchange at 28th Street in Boulder was occupied by anti-war demonstrators.
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1973 |
January 27: U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords.
April 3: First handheld cellular phone call was made.
April 4: The World Trade Center officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
November 17: President Nixon told the press "I am not a crook". amidst the Watergate scandal.
December 15: The American Psychiatric Association recognized that homosexuality was not a mental illness.
The Boulder Bookstore opened on Pearl Street with just ten bookcases.
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1974 |
August 9: President Nixon resigned to avoid being removed by impeachment for his involvement in the Watergate scandal.
Pro-basketball team Denver Rockets renamed the Denver Nuggets.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche founded Naropa University in Boulder.
Penfield William Tate II elected mayor of Boulder and became the first African-American mayor of a major city in Colorado.
World population reached 4 billion. |
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1975
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Boulder's Fiske Planetarium dedicated.
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1976 |
April 1: Apple Computer Co. formed.
July 4: U.S. Bicentennial
July 31: The Big Thompson River in northern Colorado flooded, destroying over 400 cars and houses.
August 1: Colorado's Centennial.
November 26: Microsoft was trademarked.
William Brantmeyer took over ownership and managerial duties for the Hotel Boulderado. He would remove the guest rooms on the second floor to make room for the Mezzanine lounge.
The Pearl Street Mall in downtown Boulder closed to automobile traffic and re-opened as a pedestrian mall.
Boulder became one of the first communities to institute curbside recycling.
The Fiske Planetarium added laser shows to dazzle its visitors.
IBM introduced the first laser printer, the IBM 3800.
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1977 |
May 25: Star Wars opened in cinemas and broke the record for the highest-grossing film of all time.
August 6: The Pearl Street Pedestrian Mall was officially dedicated.
William Brantmeyer commissioned artist Marie Garcia to restore the lobby ceiling to it's original glory by replacing the Plexiglas with stained glass. The process took her three months, and she and her husband lived in the Boulderado during this time.
The Boulder Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board recommended the Hotel Boulderado be recognized as a city landmark.
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1978 |
July 25: World's first test-tube baby born in the United Kingdom.
September 17: The Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt were signed.
Burt Bortles took over managerial duties for the Hotel Boulderado. |
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1979 |
March 4: Margaret Thatcher became prime minister of England, a position she held for 11 years.
June 2: Pope John Paul II visited his native Poland, the first Pope to visit a Communist nation.
August 10: Michael Jackson released Off the Wall and it went on to sell seven million copies.
November 4: The Iran hostage crisis began when Iranian radicals took 90 hostages, 53 of whom were American.
The first Bolder Boulder marathon run through the streets of Boulder.
Two physics professors from the University of Colorado brewed the first batch of Boulder Beer in a goat shed. The Boulder Beer Company would become Colorado's first microbrewery.
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1980 |
May 18: Mount St. Helen's erupts in Washington, killing 57 and causing $3 billion in damage.
June 1: CNN launched.
Frank Day and Boulderado Hotel Ltd. took over ownership of the Hotel Boulderado. |
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1981 |
January 20: Minutes after Ronald Reagan succeeded Jimmy Carter as U.S. President, Iran released over fifty American hostages who had been held for 444 days.
June 5: The Center for Disease Control reported the first recognized case of AIDS.
July 29: Lady Diana Spencer married Charles, Prince of Wales. An estimated 750 million people watched the proceedings on TV.
August 12: The original Model 5150 IBM PC was released in the United States with a price tag of $1565.
September 25: Sandra Day O'Connor took her seat as the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet visited Denver. |
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1982 |
June 30: The Equal Rights Amendment fell short of the 38 states needed to pass.
September 19: First emoticon posted :)
November 13: Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington DC.
November 30: Michael Jackson released Thriller, the biggest-selling album of all time.
December 26: Time Magazine's Man of the Year was given to a nonhuman for the first time. The computer won the award.
The Boulder Ballet was founded by Barbara Demaree and Wanda Tierney.
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1983 |
January 1: The first annual Polar Bear Plunge took place at the Boulder Reservoir, sparking a tradition for locals looking for a "clean start" to the New Year.
December 13: The Denver Nuggets and Detroit Pistons combine for an NBA record 370 points, with Detroit winning 186-184 in triple overtime. |
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1985 |
January 28: The charity single "We Are the World" recorded to raise money to fight ongoing famine in Ethiopia.
March 4: The Food and Drug Administration approved a blood test for AIDS, which will be used to screen all future blood donations.
August 31: Titanic wreck found.
September 19: First addition of the North Wing of the Hotel Boulderado opened, adding more guest rooms to the hotel inventory. |
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1986 |
February 9: Comet Halley visible from Earth.
April 26: In Ukraine, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
Autumn: First Farmer's Market was organized in Boulder.
October 28: Centennial of Statue of Liberty's dedication celebrated.
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1987 |
World population reached 5 billion. |
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1989 |
June 4: Tiananmen Square massacre took place in Beijing, and the final standoff was covered on live television.
July 5: Seinfeld premiered on NBC.
November 10: Celebrating Germans began tearing down the Berlin Wall.
Second addition of the North Wing of the Hotel Boulderado opened, featuring the new Events Center and even more guest rooms and suites, bringing the total to the current 160.
Tom Cech, a University of Colorado professor, and Sidney Altman, a graduate of the University of Colorado, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
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1990 |
February 11: Nelson Mandela released from prison.
April 24: Hubble Space Telescope placed into orbit.
May 17: The World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its list of diseases.
August 2: Iraq invaded Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
October 3: East and West Germany reunify into a single Germany. |
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1991 |
January 16: Operation Desert Storm began.
February 26: Saddam Hussein announced the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
March 3: Amateur video captured LAPD beating Rodney King.
June 17: South African Parliament repealed the Population Registration Act, which had required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
December 26: The Supreme Soviet met and formally dissolved the Soviet Union.
The Boulder Bookstore remodeled, using feng shui fundamentals to best utilize the space.
eTown launched by Nick and Helen Forster in Boulder.
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1992 |
Rocky Flats plant near Boulder discontinued production of nuclear-based weapons after officials decide it is no longer needed since the fall of the Soviet Union. |
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1993 |
April 30: World Wide Web born.
November 1: European Union established.
Colorado Rockies baseball team established.
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1994 |
May 10: Nelson Mandela inaugurated as South Africa's first Black president.
July 6: Fourteen firefighters died in a South Canyon wildfire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado. The event inspired the 1999 book, Fire on the Mountain. |
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1995 |
February 27: Denver International Airport opened.
April 19: A bombing at the Oklahoma City Federal Building killed 168 people.
June 5: A professor from the University of Colorado, Carl Wieman, and an employee from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Eric Cornell, created the Bose-Einstein condensation.
September: DVD announced as the newest media format.
October 3: OJ Simpson acquitted in double murder case.
The Quebec Nordiques hockey team moved to Colorado to become the Colorado Avalanche.
The Hotel Boulderado was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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1996 |
June 10: The Colorado Avalanche won their first Stanley Cup in their first season based out of Denver.
July 5: Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, was born.
August 28: The Prince and Princess of Wales are formally divorced.
December 26: JonBenet Ramsey found murdered in her parent's basement in Boulder.
The city of Boulder became the first municipality in the nation to mandate a residential green code.
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1997 |
June 2: In Denver, Timothy McVeigh was convicted for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
August 31: Princess Diana died after a car accident in Paris. Her funeral six days later was watched by more than two billion people worldwide.
September: Work began on 13th Street to erect the Dushanbe Teahouse, a gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikistan.
December 19: Titanic premiered and went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time.
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1998 |
January 25: Denver Broncos won the Superbowl against the Green Bay Packers.
February 23: Osama bin Laden published a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Christians.
May: The Boulder-Dushanbe Teahouse opened.
August 7: Bombings at U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya killed 224. They were later linked to Osama bin Laden.
December: Grade school children in Aurora, Colorado collected $35,000 to purchase and free slave children in the Sudan.
December 19: President Bill Clinton impeached by the House of Representatives but was later acquitted of any wrongdoing.
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1999 |
January 1: The euro established as currency.
January 31: Denver Broncos won their second Superbowl in a row.
April 20: Two students opened fire on their classmates and teachers at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.
July 25: Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France.
World population reached 6 billion. |
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2000 |
January 1: The world entered the year 2000 without widespread computer failure.
April 25: Vermont legalized civil unions for same-sex couples.
November 2: Presidential election results remain unknown because of disputed votes in Florida. "Hanging chad" comes into common usage for a brief time.
December 13: The U.S. Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount, effectively giving the state and presidency to George W. Bush. |
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2001 |
June 9: The Colorado Avalanche won their second Stanley Cup.
September 11: Four planes hijacked in a terrorist attack on the United States, crashing into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania.
October 23: Apple unveiled the first iPod.
October 26: President Bush signed the Patriot Act into law.
Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell received the Nobel Prize for physics for their work with the Bose-Einstein condensation.
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2003 |
March 12: The World Health Organization issued a global alert on SARS.
March 19: First American bombs dropped on Baghdad after Saddam Hussein doesn't comply with President Bush's 48-hour mandate demanding his exit from Iraq.
April 14: Human Genome Project completed, with 99% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.
June 26: U.S. Supreme Court declared sodomy laws to be unconstitutional. |
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2004 |
May 17: Massachusettes legalized same-sex marriage.
May 29: National World War II Memorial dedicated in Washington D.C.
June 4: Marvin Heemeyer destroyed many local buildings with a homemade tank in Granby, Colorado.
December 26: Devastating tsunami, the result of a 9.3 magnitude earthquake, hit southeast Asia, killing 186,983 and displacing tens of thousands of others. |
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2005
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Robin and Kathy Beeck presented the first Boulder International Film Festival to a crowd of 5,000 people.
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2007 |
January 4: Nancy Pelosi became the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives.
March 28: An F3 level tornado hit Holly, Colorado, killing two residents and causing millions of dollars worth of damage.
July 21: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows released and became history's fastest-selling book.
October: The Colorado Rockies won the National League Pennant.
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2008 |
August 17: Michael Phelps won eight Gold Medals at the Beijing Olympics, the most won by an athlete in a single Olympics.
August 27: Barack Obama accepted the presidential nomination in Denver at the Democratic National Convention.
September 23: Boulder's gift to its sister city of Dushanbe, a Friendship Cyber Cafe, was dedicated ten years after the Boulder-Dushanbe Teahouse opened. |
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2009 |
January 1: Hotel Boulderado Centennial.
January 20: Barack Obama inaugurated and became the first black U.S. President.
February 10: Boulder's Sesquicentennial
June 25: News of Michael Jackson's death triggered a massive slowdown of the Internet.
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2010
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January 4: The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa, opened officially in Dubai. It measures 2,127 feet tall.
January 12: A 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti, devastating the capital of Port-au-Prince and killing over 230,000 people, making it one of the deadliest on record.
April 20: An oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and resulted in an oil spill. The scope and duration of the oil spill, along with its impact on the surrounding environment and eco systems, made it the largest in recorded history and prompted international debate on the merits of off-shore drilling.
July 25: Wikileaks, an online publisher of anonymous, covert, and confidential documents, released 90,000 internal reports about the War in Afghanistan.
October 13: Thirty-three Chilean miners who had been trapped in a mine for 69 days were rescued. |
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2011
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January 14: The Tunisian government fell after a month of increasingly violent protests, kicking off the Arab Spring.
March 11: A 9.1 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the Japanese coast, killing 15,840. Four nuclear power plants were affected, raising concerns about nuclear safety around the world.
April 29: Two billion people tuned in to watch the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
May 1: U.S. President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed during an American military operation.
December 15: The U.S. formally declared an end to the Iraq War. |
