2012 Event The brother of Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1982 Nobel Prize of Literature recipient, announces he suffers from Dementia and can no longer write 2011 Event Columbian voters participate in local gubernatorial and mayoral elections which include Medellin, Cali and Bogota 2010 Event FARC guerilla leader Victor Julio Suarez Rojas, known as 'Mono Jojoy' is killed in a Columbian Armed Forces military operation 1893 Event 1st Ferris wheel premieres at Chicago's Columbian Exposition 1893 Event World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago 1893 Event Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized 1852 Event Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R
