The Gazette & Colorado Springs
1960-1979
1960
Interstate 25 opens; about 8,5000 of the city's 1247,000 residents use the new highway daily.
1961
Charles Leaming Tutt, civic leader and chairman of the board of El Pomar Foundation and Broadmoor hotel enterprises, dies.
Yuri Gagarin first man in space.
1963
John F. Kennedy assassinated.
1964
Second Antlers Hotel razed.
1965
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs opens.
Massive floods in June and July kill two, wash away numerous bridges.
1966
NORAD complex, a city on springs, opens inside Cheyenne Mountain.
1968
Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Kennedy assassinated.
1969
Gazette circulation hits 50,000.
El Paso Community College opens, later known as Pikes Peak Community College.
Neil Armstrong first man on moon.
1970
Gazette publisher Harry Hoiles named Freedom chain president after death of his father, R.C. Hoiles.
1972
Gazette celebrates its 100th anniversary.
Colorado Springs celebrates its centennial.
Citadel mall opens.
Watergate break-in.
1973
Arab oil embargo.
1975
E. Roy Smith named publisher of the Gazette Telegraph.
District 11 teachers strike.
Vietnam War ends.
1977
Gazette starts morning edition.
1978
Olympic Training Center and U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters move to Colorado Springs.
The first National Sports Festival is held in city.
Colorado springs annexes five southwest suburbs, including affluent Broadmoor and Skyway areas.
1979
Gazette announces expansion plans to house a new high-speed offset press.
Bob Isaac city's first elected mayor.