1. The first Colorado Day was celebrated on March 8, 1877 when President Rutherford B. Hayes signed the bill which created the Colorado territory.

2. In 1914, an International Women's Day rally was held in Denver to demand women's suffrage. The rally ended with participants marching to the state capitol where they were met by a crowd of about 500.

3. On March 8, 1917, Colorado became the first state west of the Mississippi to grant women the right to vote in all elections, not just school elections. This was three years before the 19th Amendment was ratified by Congress.

4. In 1933, on March 8, the famous train robbery of the Great Western Railway occurred in Colorado. A group of robbers stole money and gold from a train in the middle of the night.

5. On March 8, 2000, the Colorado State Capitol was closed due to a bomb scare. The scare turned out to be a false alarm, but the building was closed for several hours as a precautionary measure.