The Colorado Rockies have won one National League championship ( 2007 ).

Colorado won the first game in Philadelphia, 4 – 2.

Using Stroessner's National Constitution, Rodríguez orchestrated a political campaign with the Colorado Party and won the presidency in an election held on May 1989 in which the Colorado Party dominated the Congress.

The one silver lining was Tony Gwynn's eighth and final National League batting title, won in the final days of the season after a down-to-the wire duel with the Colorado Rockies ' Larry Walker.

Colorado Party leader Julio María Sanguinetti won the presidency and served from 1985 to 1990.

National elections were held in 1984 ; Colorado Party leader Julio María Sanguinetti won the presidency and, following the brief interim Presidency of Rafael Addiego Bruno, served from 1985 to 1990.

The Colorado and National Parties continued their legislative coalition, as neither party by itself won as many seats as the 40 % of each house won by the Broad Front coalition.

Although Perot easily won the nomination, his victory at the party's national convention led to a schism, as supporters of his opponent, former Governor Richard Lamm of Colorado, accused him of rigging the vote to prevent them from casting their ballots.

Notable athletes are Whitehorse born hockey players Bryon Baltimore, who made it to the Los Angeles Kings in 1974, and Peter Sturgeon who played for the Colorado Rockies in 1974, Whitehorse born olympic cyclist Zachary Bell, Whitehorse raised olympic weightlifter Jeane Lassen who won medals in several world competitions, Whitehorse born basketball players Aaron Olson, and 1984 Olympics centre for Team Canada Greg Wiltjer.

Harkin won caucuses in Idaho and Minnesota while Jerry Brown won Colorado.

In 1996 – 97, Colorado won the Pacific Division, as well as the Presidents ' Trophy for finishing the regular season with the best record in the league: 49 – 24 – 9 for 107 points.

In the following season, Colorado won the Pacific Division with a 39 – 26 – 17 record for 95 points.

Despite a slow 2 – 6 – 1 start, Colorado finished with a 44 – 28 – 10 record for 98 points, won the Northwest Division and finished second in the Western Conference.

Colorado had a 3 – 2 lead after five games, but lost Game 6 at home 2 – 0 and then the Red Wings won the deciding game at Detroit, 7 – 0.

In the playoffs, Colorado won the Western Conference Quarterfinals against the Dallas Stars in five games, but lost in the Western Conference Semifinals against the San Jose Sharks in a six games.

In 1996, the Colorado Avalanche met the Detroit Red Wings in the Western Conference Finals and won the series 4 – 2.

Suffering their worst season since 1977 – 78 the subsequent year, Keenan was fired midway through and replaced with Marc Crawford ( who had won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 1996 ).

In an interesting playoffs, all the bottom seeds won in the first round so the Ducks faced the seventh seed Colorado.

This was the only time between 1995 and 2003 that a team other than the New Jersey Devils, Colorado Avalanche, and Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup.

In one of the better showings by a third-party candidate in U. S. history, Weaver received over a million popular votes, and won four states ( Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, and Nevada ) and 22 electoral votes.

Seventy years later, the first gaseous condensate was produced by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman in 1995 at the University of Colorado at Boulder NIST-JILA lab, using a gas of rubidium atoms cooled to 170 nanokelvin ( nK ) ().

The Diamondbacks ' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50, 179.

Boulder, Colorado is legendary with bouldering opportunities and fierce clean climbing ethic, particularly in the Crown Rocks area featuring notable first bouldering ascents by John Gill, Chuck Pratt and Pat Ament.

In 1995 the first gaseous condensate was produced by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman at the University of Colorado at Boulder NIST – JILA lab, using a gas of rubidium atoms cooled to 170 nanokelvin ( nK ) ().

Notable former Indians broadcasters include Tom Manning, Jack Graney ( the first ex-baseball player to become a play-by-play announcer ), Jack Corrigan ( now with the Colorado Rockies ), Jimmy Dudley who received the Ford Frick Award in 1997, Ken Coleman, Joe Castiglione, Van Patrick, Joe Tait, Bruce Drennan, Jim " Mudcat " Grant, Harry Jones, Rocky Colavito and Herb Score, who called Indians ' baseball for 34 seasons.

This made Colorado only the third team in the last half-century, and the first in the National League since the 1936 New York Giants, to have a 20 – 1 stretch at any point of a season.

Colorado responded by winning 10 of their first 11 games in September, including a 9 – 1 home stand.

On October 17, 2007, a week before the first game of the 2007 World Series against the Boston Red Sox, the Colorado Rockies announced that tickets would be made available to the general public via online sales only, despite prior arrangements to sell the tickets at local retail outlets.

He was probably the first president to release information about his health and medical records while in office, On September 24, 1955, while vacationing in Colorado, he had a serious heart attack that required six weeks ' hospitalization, during which time Nixon, Dulles and Sherman Adams assumed administrative duties and provided communication with the President.

After defeating the St. Louis Blues, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Colorado Avalanche in the first three rounds, the Wings went on to beat the Philadelphia Flyers in four straight games in the Stanley Cup Finals.

The following season, the Wings looked poised to " three-peat " for the first time in franchise history, acquiring three-time top blueliner Chris Chelios from his hometown Chicago Blackhawks in March 1999, but they would end up losing the Western Conference Semifinals to Colorado in six games.

Although the Colorado Agricultural College was founded in 1870, the first classes were held in 1879.

The first commercial oil well in the Rocky Mountains was drilled near Canon City, Colorado in 1862.

His first major recognition came with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado ; his new stature led to his selection as chief architect for the John F. Kennedy Library in Massachusetts.

The Kansas City Wiz played their first game on April 13, 1996, defeating the Colorado Rapids at Arrowhead Stadium.

In the first round of the playoffs, the Wizards lost to the last-seeded Colorado Rapids.

In the first round, the Wizards would defeat the Colorado Rapids in the aggregate goal series, 3 – 1.

* 2001 – 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

In May 1993, Colorado Party candidate Juan Carlos Wasmosy was elected as Paraguay's first civilian president in almost 40 years in what international observers deemed fair and free elections.

The team continued this run of success with wins over the Colorado Rockies in the NLDS ( 3 games to 1 ) and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS ( 4 games to 1 ), to become the first Phillies team to win back-to-back pennants and the first National League team since the 1996 Atlanta Braves to have an opportunity to defend their World Series title.

After going 7 – 5 in his first stint in 2007 with the Giants, he exploded onto the scene this year winning four straight before losing his 1st game of the year on April 29, 2008, to the Colorado Rockies.

The first US Nationals were held later that same year in Colorado Springs, CO on Prospect lake, hosted by Tommy Phillips.