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Luckily, the fire was subdued before it reached the park boundary. 1980: 10,063 acres (4,072 ha) Emerald Lake fire: White River National Forest: Largest wildfire in Colorado history at the time. 1988: 15,438 acres (6,248 ha) I Do fire: South of Sunbeam, Colorado, Moffat County. Surpassed the Emerald Lake fire as largest in the state's history.
Fort Logan was a military installation located eight miles southwest of Denver, Colorado.It was established in October 1887, when the first soldiers camped on the land, and lasted until 1946, when it was closed following the end of World War II. [2]
The Second Battle of the Odon began as part of the Battle of Normandy. The Battle of Nietjärvi began. German submarine U-319 was depth charged and sunk in the North Sea by a B-24 of No. 206 Squadron RAF. Born: Jan-Michael Vincent, actor, in Denver, Colorado (d. 2019) Died: Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, 53, French aviator (died from torture by the Gestapo)
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Hartford Circus Fire: More than 100 children die in one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States. World War II: At Camp Hood, Texas, future baseball star and 1st Lt. Jackie Robinson is arrested and later court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of a segregated U.S. Army bus. He is eventually acquitted.
1944 was a leap year ... 1944. Battle of Leyte Gulf between United States and Japan, October 23, 1944. October 2 – WWII: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising. ...
Denver Union Station is extensively damaged by fire. March 14: The Denver City Police and Arapahoe County Deputy Sheriffs barricade Denver City Hall to prevent the Colorado State Infantry from seizing the building in the City Hall War of 1894. February 7: The City of Denver annexes the Town of South Denver. [70] January 10: The Town of Aguilar ...
Scouting parties of the 291st discovered 17 survivors of the Malmedy massacre on 17 December 1944. [ 3 ] : 202 After nearly a month of grueling counter measures against the initial Panzer forces led by Joachim Peiper , the battalion's C Company returned to Malmedy to discover the bodies of 86 murdered US GIs frozen under a thick blanket of snow ...