DENVER – One of Colorado’s darkest days will be remembered in a series of events, including a dedication of a memorial honoring the victims and first responders of the 1955 United Flight 629 plane bombing which killed 44 people.

This Saturday evening will mark 70 years since a Denver man packed 25 sticks of dynamite into his mother’s suitcase in an effort to collect life insurance money.

The United Airlines flight, a 4-engine DC 6, took off from Denver’s Stapleton airport on November 1, 1955 and was only minutes in the air headed to Portland when the explosion – at around 7:03 p.m. – destroyed the airliner and killed the 44 people onboard, raining down wreckage onto the Weld County beet fields. The 44 victims of the Flight 629 tragedy.

The Denver City Council on Monday evening issued

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