6 March 1836
At 5.30a, Mexican forces make their final assault upon the mission-fortress Alamo.
The attacking force comprises 2,400 men with an assault force of 1,600 attacking.
The Texans and their Tejano allies inside the Alamo number about 188-240 men.
After about an hour, the battle is over. Mexican forces lose about 600 men and all
the Texians are killed. Their bodies are pulled out of Alamo, stacked in three separate
funeral pyres and burned.

47 years  ago...some brave souls proved freedom aint free.

http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1900/ - http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1918/ - 1918 - American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
1925 - Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1928/ - http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1963/ - 1963 - 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
1997 - The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television. They are now a hotly debated controversy.
http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/2003/ - http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/2008/ - 2008 - Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000.00 an ounce for the first time.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5251 - Hudson's Bay Company opens Fort Vancouver on March 19, 1825.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9780 - Virgil G. Bogue, James Gregg, Andy Drury, and Mattew Champion find Stampede Pass for the Northern Pacific Railroad on March 19, 1881.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=452 - Redmond beginnings: Melrose Post Office name changed to Redmond on March 19, 1883.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8940 - Washington State Legislature passes law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on the University of Washington campus in Seattle on March 19, 1895.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9067 - Ferndale incorporates on March 19, 1907.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9573 - Turman G. Wilson and Utah E. Wilson kidnap Jo Ann Dewey in Vancouver, Washington, on March 19, 1950.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9725 - Port of Poulsbo is established on March 19, 1951.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8264 - Nutty Narrows Bridge opens in Longview on March 19, 1963.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8187 - Trips Festival is held in Seattle Eagles Hall on March 19, 1967.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2989 - In ceremony originally scheduled for New Year's Eve, Carl Smool ignites fire sculptures at Seattle Center on March 19, 2000.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2989 - http://www.historylink.org/ - http://www.historylink.org/

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5035 - British explorer Captain James Cook names Cape Flattery on March 22, 1778.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8673 - The ship Tonquin out of New York City sights the mouth of the Columbia River on March 22, 1811.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5064 - Longshoremen strike the Tacoma Mill Company on March 22, 1886.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5405 - Edison agents turn on first central incandescent lighting plant west of the Rockies in Seattle on March 22, 1886.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=488 - Auburn beginnings: Christopher Post Office opens on March 22, 1887.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5471 - Washington abolishes the death penalty on March 22, 1913.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7734 - Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats lectures in Tacoma on March 22, 1920.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9798 - Electric generators at Grand Coulee Dam go online for the first time on March 22, 1941.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9059 - Hanford Engineer Works Village, a federal project to house workers on the Manhattan Project, breaks ground in Richland on March 22, 1943.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7421 - Group Health Cooperative dedicates Northgate Clinic on March 22, 1958.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5279 - Washington state ratifies Equal Rights amendment to U.S. Constitution (which fails nationally) on March 22, 1973.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4156 - Seattle Public Library's Radio Talking Book takes to the air on March 22, 1973.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7417 - Group Health Cooperative nurses walk out on March 22, 1995.

Note: All WA Today Events I post from this site http://www.historylink.org/ - http://www.historylink.org/   so if I say "Ibid" or no not give another specifications, it's from it.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=535 - Birch Post Office opens on March 23, 1892.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3725 - Alice Lord sparks Seattle waitresses to organize on March 23, 1900.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5085 - Tacoma City Light's Cushman Dam No. 1 on the Skokomish River delivers electricity on March 23, 1926.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8460 - A key part of the work to build the scenic Mountain Loop Highway linking Granite Falls to Darrington (Snohomish County) begins on March 23, 1936.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3722 - George McCormick walks around Vashon Island on March 23, 1938.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1990 - Helix, Seattle's first underground newspaper, debuts on March 23, 1967.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2034 - Seattle City Council appoints Floyd C. Miller as mayor of Seattle on March 23, 1969.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9505 - Seattle Public Health Commissioner demand for removal of houseboats is reported on March 24, 1922.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=135 - Jewish Chronicle is launched in Seattle on March 24, 1932.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1483 - University of Washington is said on March 24, 1948, to have more than 150 Communists or sympathizers.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3361 - Washington State Legislature passes Community College Act on March 24, 1967.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9667 - During the War of 1812, a North West Company vessel carrying supplies departs eastern Canada for the Columbia River on March 25, 1813.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5412 - Coal train runs on first railroad in Western Washington on March 25, 1872.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=508 - Fremont beginnings: Fremont Post Office opens on March 25, 1890.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2664 - Gale lashes Puget Sound on March 25, 1897.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8462 - The first ship calls at Port of Tacoma on March 25, 1921.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5728 - Governor Clarence Martin signs the Revenue Act of 1935 on March 25, 1935.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9114 - Seattle Master Builders Association and Seattle Post-Intelligencer sponsor first National Housing Exposition of the Pacific Northwest on March 25, 1939.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1376 - Experimental College (ASUW) begins registration on March 25, 1968.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2202 - Governor Dan Evans appoints first African American, Dr. Robert Flennaugh, to serve on UW Board of Regents on March 25, 1970.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7969 - Puyallup Tribe of Indians accepts a $162 million settlement for lost land on March 25, 1990.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8138 - Kyle Huff shoots and kills six people at a rave afterparty in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood on March 25, 2006.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8674 - Hawaiian Islanders conduct traditional funeral for drowned countryman near mouth of Columbia River on March 26, 1811.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=760 - Yesler Sawmill cuts first lumber on March 26, 1853.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5190 - Native Americans attack Americans at the Cascades of the Columbia on March 26, 1856.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=509 - Boise beginnings: Boise Post Office opens on March 26, 1890.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=588 - Vashon Island beginnings: Cove Post Office opens on March 26, 1904.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9688 - Raymond mill workers join regional strike on March 26, 1912.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5414 - Seattle Metropolitan hockey team wins the Stanley Cup on March 26, 1917.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=953 - Sheriff's Dry Squad finds home brew at Stensland residence in Redmond on March 26, 1926.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8267 - Betty MacDonald's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is published on March 26, 1947.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1377 - Senator Robert Kennedy campaigns in Seattle on March 26, 1968.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1929 - Seattle Public Library's first fine-free day yields return of 9,000 overdue books on March 26, 1970.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2298 - Microsoft stock splits for the eighth time on March 26, 1999.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2252 - Kingdome stadium is imploded on March 26, 2000.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=469 - Women win school suffrage on March 27, 1890.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5437 - Public Accommodations Act takes effect on March 27, 1890.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5452 - Kitsap County school district hires Jane A. Ruley, first African American teacher in county, on March 27, 1897.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1079 - A falling log crushes a Monohon sawmill employee on March 27, 1907.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2928 - Gunjiro Aoki weds Gladys Emery in Seattle on March 27, 1909, after leaving states that prohibit mixed-race marriages.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2527 - Kingdome opens to a crowd of 54,000 on March 27, 1976.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3800 - Evicted tenant stabs to death King County Police Detective Michael L. Raburn on March 27, 1984.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7677 - Woodinville residents celebrate incorporation on March 27, 1993.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1197 - Seattle First National Bank building is dedicated on March 28, 1969.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10019 - Spokane environmental group Friends of the Falls unveils its Conceptual Plan for the Spokane River Gorge on March 28, 2002.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3740 - Historic Boeing 307 Stratoliner ditches into Elliott Bay on March 28, 2002.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9641 - Somali TV on Seattle Cable Access Network releases a video explaining Census 2010 to Somali American viewers on March 28, 2010.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8826 - Fire destroys the Mission and School of St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church at Tulalip on March 29, 1902.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9090 - Railroad workers lay the last rail of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway's line at Snoqualmie Pass on March 29, 1909.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2663 - Georgetown votes to annex to Seattle on March 29, 1910.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9104 - Marguerite Motie becomes the first Miss Spokane on March 29, 1912.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5411 - Longview Bridge (later renamed Lewis and Clark Bridge) spanning the Columbia River opens on March 29, 1930.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9845 - B'nai B'rith Lodge No. 1220 and its women's auxiliary are instituted in Walla Walla on March 29, 1936.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4280 - War Department asks Children's Orthopedic Hospital Guilds to assist secret movement of Hawaii evacuees on March 29, 1942.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9488 - U.S. Air Force B-36 crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base, killing seven airmen and injuring three others, on March 29, 1954.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1378 - College and high school students sit-in at Seattle's Franklin High on March 29, 1968.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8580 - Mountlake Terrace High School announces plans to return to traditional educational model, abandoning experimental "small schools" program, on March 29, 2008.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2691 - Frank Osgood tests Seattle's first electric streetcars on March 30, 1889.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1065 - Waiters establish Seattle union on March 30, 1900.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=589 - Rainier Valley and Hillman City beginnings: Hillman Post Office (later Hanford) opens on March 30, 1904.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5574 - Thomas Prosch, Virginia Prosch, Margaret Lenora Denny, and Harriet Foster Beecher die in a car accident on March 30, 1915.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9678 - Marshal Joseph Joffre of France rededicates the Peace Arch in Blaine on March 30, 1922.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=951 - Deputy sheriffs confiscate and destroy slot machines in downtown Seattle on March 30, 1925.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2593 - U.S. Supreme Court in Tulee v. Washington upholds some Native American treaty fishing rights on March 30, 1942.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8277 - Bainbridge Island's Japanese American residents become the first to be interned under Executive Order 9066 on March 30, 1942.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5027 - Tacoma City Light's Mayfield Dam on the Cowlitz River generates electricity on March 30, 1963.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2731 - Lake City Wastewater Treatment Plant stops discharging treated sewage into Lake Washington on March 30, 1967.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9849 - Helen Thayer begins journey that will make her the first woman to solo to magnetic North Pole on March 30, 1988.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2790 - David "Doc" Maynard arrives at Alki Point on March 31, 1852.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1970 - Electric trolley line in Seattle begins regular service on March 31, 1889.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7705 - Charles Hopkins, the "Tattooed Bandit," is captured at Van Horn, Washington, on March 31, 1914.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3552 - City of Bellevue is incorporated on March 31, 1953.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3387 - The Weekly begins publication in Seattle on March 31, 1976.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2250 - Bogle & Gates, one of Seattle's largest and oldest law firms, dissolves on March 31, 1999.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2424 - Cedar River Watershed Education Center groundbreaking ceremonies held on March 31, 2000.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5017 - Nicolas Delin begins construction of a sawmill at the head of Commencement Bay on April 1, 1852.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5019 - Promoter Morton Matthew McCarver arrives at Eureka, later Tacoma, on April 1, 1868.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=568 - Dell Post Office opens on April 1, 1901.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8643 - Congregation Keneseth Israel organizes as Spokane's first Orthodox Jewish congregation on April 1, 1901.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1094 - Shingle weavers strike Ballard shingle mills on April 1, 1906.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2316 - Seattle City Light becomes an independent department on April 1, 1910.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2539 - Charles Chaplin appears at Seattle's Empress Theatre beginning April 1, 1912.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2535 - Seattle takes over ownership and operation of the streetcar system on April 1, 1919.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7233 - Governor Roland H. Hartley appoints J. Webster Hoover as State Highway Engineer on April 1, 1925.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1931 - Homeless men in Seattle refuse to leave shelter on April 1, 1939.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3875 - Magnolia Station, The Seattle Public Library, opens on April 1, 1943.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9289 - The Ephrata Army Air Base switches from heavy bomber training to fighter pilot training on April 1, 1944.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4168 - Washington establishes an office for clearing the route of the Seattle Freeway (Interstate 5) on April 1, 1957.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8188 - Seattle's First Be-In is held in Cowen Park on April 1, 1967.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2017 - Black Arts/West theater opens in Central Area on April 1, 1969.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2177 - Seattle Aquarium receives highest achievement award for engineering excellence on April 1, 1977.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7759 - Washington Legislature enacts Growth Management Act on April 1, 1990.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8927 - Antiwar activists spoof the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on April 1, 1991.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9850 - Helen and Bill Thayer set out for their year in the Arctic Circle to study the gray wolf on April 1, 1994.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9593 - Fire razes blocks of downtown Dayton on April 2, 1882.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1722 - William Jennings Bryan campaigns in Seattle against imperialism, trusts, and the Gold Standard on April 2, 1900.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=569 - Medford Post Office opens on April 2, 1901.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1070 - Sheet metal workers in Seattle strike on April 2, 1902.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8457 - Charles Hamilton demonstrates airplane flight in Spokane on April 2, 1910.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9579 - Coupeville voters approve city incorporation on April 2, 1910.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3698 - Airliner crash into Puget Sound kills five on April 2, 1956.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8515 - Legislative leaders John Bagnariol and Gordon Walgren are charged in Gamscam case on April 2, 1980.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9141 - The Tulalip Tribes dedicate a new fish hatchery on April 2, 1983.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2532 - U.S. and Canada sign the Skagit River Treaty on April 2, 1984.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9717 - Explosion and fire at the Tesoro Refinery in Anacortes kills seven refinery workers on April 2, 2010.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5285 - Saint Joseph's Mission at Ahtanum Creek is founded in the Yakima Valley on April 3, 1852.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1956 - First contingent of Denny party relocates to site of Seattle on April 3, 1852.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9679 - Marshal Joseph Joffre of France visits Seattle's Pike Place Market on April 3, 1922.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2231 - Chicago Seven defendant Tom Hayden speaks at University of Washington on April 3, 1970.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9818 - Top of the Ocean Restaurant, a Tacoma landmark, is destroyed by arson on April 3, 1977.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7318 - West Seattle Branch, The Seattle Public Library, reopens after remodeling on April 3, 2004.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5259 - Island County's first Commissioners' meeting takes place in Coveland on April 4, 1853.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3398 - Women organize Seattle's first charity, The Ladies Relief Society, on April 4, 1884.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5427 - Seattle Seminary -- later Seattle Pacific University -- opens doors to 34 students on April 4, 1891.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3756 - Armed robbers kill King County Sheriff's Deputy Robert C. Scott on April 4, 1920.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2173 - Contract for construction of Cedar River Pipeline Number Three awarded on April 4, 1922.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4256 - Vessel Fresno burns in Meydenbauer Bay on April 4, 1923.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5187 - Columbia Theatre in Longview opens on April 4, 1925.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9982 - First section of Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct opens on April 4, 1953.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3145 - Christopher P. Higgins purchases first land from federal government in Seattle's future Crown Hill neighborhood on April 5, 1871.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9326 - Fort Vancouver is renamed Vancouver Barracks on April 5, 1879.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5266 - Kaiser shipyard in Vancouver launches its first escort aircraft carrier on April 5, 1943.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9532 - Washington State charters The Royal Esquire Club, a private African American men's club, on April 5, 1948.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4248 - Church leaders close African American Grace Presbyterian Church on April 5, 1953.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2170 - Seattle City Council grants preliminary approval to Ballard site for new aquarium on April 5, 1971.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8099 - A severe tornado strikes Vancouver, Washington, killing six and injuring more than 300, on April 5, 1972.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3778 - Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley dies on April 5, 2002.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7808 - Jochin Henry Timmerman is executed in Goldendale for the murder of William Sterling on April 6, 1888.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2796 - City Council appoints William D. Wood as Mayor of the City of Seattle on April 6, 1896.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5286 - Timber companies organize Washington Forest Fire Association on April 6, 1908.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9410 - Voters approve creation of Port of Vancouver on April 6, 1912.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5731 - U.S. Congress declares war on Germany and enters World War I on April 6, 1917.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=948 - Seattle police arrest an Austrian, a German, and a Hungarian for defaming flag shortly after U.S. declares war on April 6, 1917.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=962 - Civil War veteran offers his services for World War I on April 6, 1917.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=363 - U.S. Army flyers depart Sand Point Airfield for first aerial circumnavigation of the globe on April 6, 1924.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7444 - Pasco celebrates first Air Mail delivery in the Columbia Basin on April 6, 1926.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8205 - City Council committee names first Seattle Women's Commission members on April 6, 1971.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3419 - Seattle Mariners play their first baseball game in Seattle on April 6, 1977.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1098 - Shingle weavers strike 12 Ballard shingle mills on April 7, 1913.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=939 - Seattle responds to U. S. entry into World War I on April 7, 1917.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8239 - Ex-convicts Claude H. Ryan and Walter Seelert kill Lewis County Deputy Sheriff Seth R. Jackson on April 7, 1937.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9701 - Asotin County Commissioners authorize formation of a port district on April 7, 1958, paving the way for the Port of Clarkston.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1380 - Washington state mourns the death of Rev. Martin Luther King on April 7, 1968.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7836 - Robert Schenkkan's The Kentucky Cycle, first produced at Intiman Theatre in June 1991, is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama on April 7, 1992.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2133 - Seattle Public Library opens reading room in the Occidental Building on April 8, 1891.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5164 - Radio station KIT begins broadcasting on April 8, 1929.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3477 - Governor Martin pardons two police officers on April 8, 1939, for killing an African American.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4023 - North End Branch, King County Public Library opens on April 8, 1944.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1022 - Pilots play their first Major League baseball game on April 8, 1969.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9880 - Castle Apartments (Gaches Mansion) in LaConner burns on April 8, 1973.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7920 - County Council unanimously approves new King County Comprehensive Plan on April 8, 1985.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2701 - Workers complete primary excavation of downtown Seattle transit tunnel on April 8, 1988.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5149 - Tacoma City Council approves Click! Network on April 8, 1997.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5406 - U. S. Senate ratifies purchase of Alaska from Russia on April 9, 1867.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1114 - Carnation Milk Company workers strike on April 9, 1917.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7862 - Peach post office closes in preparation for the town's inundation by the rising waters of Roosevelt Lake on April 9, 1939.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3569 - Prototype Boeing 737 short-range passenger jet makes its maiden flight on April 9, 1967.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8207 - Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman proposes a city Division on Aging on April 9, 1971.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8152 - Oregon volunteers battle Yakamas and Klickitats along Satus Creek on April 10, 1856.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3801 - Ex-convict Richard H. Lee murders Officer Thomas L. Roberts on April 10, 1898.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3797 - Robbery suspects murder Kent town marshal Harry E. Miller on April 10, 1908.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2305 - Hooverville (in Seattle) burns down on April 10, 1941.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7950 - Some 15,000 Latinos and others march in Seattle to protest House Bill 4437 on April 10, 2006.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2061 - Civil War ends on April 9 and news reaches Olympia on April 11, 1865.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5428 - U.S.S. Oregon is first battleship to dock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton on April 11, 1897.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=570 - Seattle Beginnings: Brighton Post Office opens on April 11, 1901.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1115 - Seattle iron workers strike on April 11, 1917.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3530 - Seattle-inspired legislation proposing 15-cent coin is introduced to Congress on April 11, 1918.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4274 - Children's Orthopedic Hospital moves from Queen Anne to Laurelhurst in an elaborate, all-volunteer operation on April 11, 1953.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9347 - Operation Mother Goose begins to distribute Canada geese across the state starting on April 11, 1968.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1023 - Pilots play their first home game at Sicks' Stadium in Seattle on April 11, 1969.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1423 - King Gustav proclaims Seattle's Ballard Avenue Historical District on April 11, 1976.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8991 - Local investors buy Seattle's historic Immigration and Naturalization Service Building on April 11, 2008.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=587 - Tukwila Beginnings: Tukwila Post Office opens on April 14, 1904.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4191 - Bothell incorporates as a city of the fourth class on April 14, 1909.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4016 - Frances Farmer wins award for essay titled "God Dies" on April 14, 1931.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1404 - President Bill Clinton appoints Filipino American community activist Robert Santos as HUD representative on April 14, 1994.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9402 - Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Co. moves from longtime Pioneer Square location to Capitol Hill and reopens on April 14, 2010.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7731 - Washington Territorial Legislature creates Sawamish (Mason) County on April 15, 1854.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=858 - Lincoln is assassinated and Olympia and Seattle mourn on April 15, 1865.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1735 - Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad Company is incorporated on April 15, 1885.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1063 - Cigar makers form a Seattle local union on April 15, 1887.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8087 - Spokane's first streetcar takes its inaugural trip from downtown to Browne's Addition on April 15, 1888.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7237 - Joseph M. Snow takes office as Washington's first Highway Commissioner on April 15, 1905.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8399 - Fire strikes the Grand Theatre in Centralia on April 15, 1924.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5469 - Walter Dubuc, age 17, youngest person to be executed in Washington, is hanged on April 15, 1932.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3742 - Blue Moon tavern opens in Seattle's University District on about April 15, 1934.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3565 - The YB-52 prototype, the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, takes its first flight on April 15, 1952.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9478 - U.S. Air Force B-36 Peacemaker crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base, killing 15 airmen and injuring two others on April 15, 1952.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5136 - Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8030 - Umatilla Bridge spanning the Columbia River opens on April 15, 1955.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8181 - Seattle newspapers settle legal dispute, extending their Joint Operating Agreement, on April 15, 2007.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=591 - Taylor Beginnings: Taylor Post Office opens on April 16, 1904.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7285 - The Mahoney Trunk Murder occurs on April 16, 1921.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8121 - Fire burns more than 35 square miles on and east of the Sammamish Plateau in King County starting on April 16, 1939.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5119 - Tacoma's Cheney Stadium hosts first baseball game on April 16, 1960.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9905 - Senator Henry M. Jackson conducts the first U.S. Senate hearing on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 16, 1969.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2130 - Grand jury indicts Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) leaders on April 16, 1970, for conspiracy to riot in planning February demonstration.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1287 - Billboard reading "Will the Last Person Leaving SEATTLE -- Turn Out the Lights" appears near Sea-Tac International Airport on April 16, 1971.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7673 - Group Health Cooperative debates violence as a public health issue and bans weapons at all Group Health facilities on April 16, 1994.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5472 - Washington State establishes recognition days in honor of Mother Joseph and Marcus Whitman on April 16, 1999.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4159 - Seattle designates the 1962 Monorail as an historic landmark on April 16, 2003.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7316 - Fremont Branch, The Seattle Public Library, reopens after renovations on April 16, 2005.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5617 - Washington State Highway Board holds its first meeting on April 17, 1905.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4188 - Postal clerk horsewhips Bothell publisher for a critical editorial on April 17, 1909.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2652 - Seattle's Roxy Theater becomes target of attempted bombing on April 17, 1933.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8824 - George A. McIntyre shoots and kills four people in Pullman on Easter Sunday, April 17, 1949.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5262 - Ferry Rhododendron enters service on April 17, 1954.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=722 - Seattle holds groundbreaking ceremony for the Space Needle on April 17, 1961.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1221 - Boeing wins design contract for AWACS on April 17, 1969.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8250 - Fire devastates Cheney on April 18,1889.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=510 - Redmond beginnings: York Post Office (later Derby, later Redmond) opens on April 18, 1890.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2056 - Author Henry James visits Seattle on April 18, 1905.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3741 - First Seattle production of Hair debuts at the Moore Theater on April 18, 1970.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1696 - China-U.S. trade resumes as M.V. LIULINHAI docks at Port of Seattle on April 18, 1979.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8637 - One of Western Washington's latest lowland snowfalls on record begins on April 18, 2008.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2166 - Contract for construction of Cedar River Pipeline Number One awarded on April 19, 1899.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3745 - Gisell Herzog founds first Seattle chapter of Hadassah on April 19, 1923.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4012 - Fox (Music Hall) Theatre opens in Seattle on April 19, 1929.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=720 - Seattle's Monorail is christened on April 19, 1962, just two days before Century 21 opens.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3715 - Stokely Carmichael speaks to 4,000 at Seattle's Garfield High School on April 19, 1967.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2153 - Seattle Radical Women hold what is likely the nation's first women's liberation demonstration on April 19, 1968.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1384 - Seattle City Council approves open housing ordinance on April 19, 1968.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8514 - The Washington House of Representatives votes to restrict pay toilets on April 19, 1977.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9089 - Democratic State Senator Sid Snyder shocks Legislature by resigning from office to protest GOP tactics on April 19, 1997.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1443 - Space Needle officially becomes a City of Seattle historic landmark on April 19, 1999.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3225 - State Senate adopts Resolution 8675 honoring the sesquicentennial of the landing of the Denny Party on Alki Beach on April 19, 2001.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4164 - Seattle pioneer Doc Maynard's gravestone in Seattle's Lake View Cemetery is rededicated on April 19, 2003.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7301 - King County is renamed in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 19, 2005.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=311 - Japanese Americans are ordered to evacuate Seattle on April 21, 1942.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3186 - Northgate Shopping Mall (Seattle) opens on April 21, 1950.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5396 - Century 21 World's Fair opens in Seattle on April 21, 1962.

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http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10092 - Belgian waffles are introduced in America at the Seattle World's Fair on April 21, 1962.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5154 - Tacoma Dome opens its doors on April 21, 1983.

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http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9441 - David Thompson concludes first scientific survey of the Columbia River and departs Kettle Falls for Montreal on April 22, 1812.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5181 - American customs inspector seizes the British ship Albion, whose crew is cutting timber at Discovery Bay, on April 22, 1850.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8202 - Duncan Hunter files a homestead claim in the future Lynnwood on April 22, 1889.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1080 - Cigar makers union in Seattle strikes on April 22, 1907.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1099 - Wireless operators strike the entire Pacific Coast on April 22, 1913.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8811 - Chaplin look-alike contest is held in Seattle on April 22, 1916.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8241 - Hoko River Bridge, located in Clallam County on the Olympic Peninsula, collapses when a 40-ton log truck drives over it on April 22, 1947.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7426 - Group Health Cooperative expresses solidarity with Boeing machinists by granting them membership on a deferred-dues basis during their strike that begins on April 22, 1948.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3553 - Aeronautical Machinists Union strikes Boeing on April 22, 1948.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=706 - Seattle Jewish Archives Committee is created on April 22, 1968.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2233 - Earth Day first observed in Seattle on April 22, 1970.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9910 - Senator Henry M. Jackson is cheered and heckled during speeches about the environment at the University of Washington and Washington State University on the first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7670 - Group Health Cooperative holds its first Health Fair on April 22, 1978.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=765 - Suquamish, first diesel-powered ship built on Puget Sound, is launched on April 23, 1914.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9928 - Construction crews place the last concrete slab of Seattle's Alaskan Way seawall on April 23, 1936.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3819 - Bank robber murders Seattle Police Officer Dale E. Eggers on April 23, 1985.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8158 - Douglas B. MacDonald takes office as Washington Secretary of Transportation on April 23, 2001.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8988 - James Hakel ends his tenure as official Historylink director of libations on April 23, 2009.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5290 - Alfred A. Plummer and Charles Bachelder settle on the site of future Port Townsend on April 24, 1851.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7727 - First post office in Mason County is established at Oakland on April 24, 1858.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9439 - General Howard meets with Smohalla, Wanapum spiritual leader, on April 24, 1877.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8289 - Main administration building of the State Normal School at Cheney burns down on April 24, 1912.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3882 - Mary Davenport-Engberg debuts Seattle Civic Symphony Orchestra in concert at Metropolitan Theatre on April 24, 1921.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8418 - Two women die in an airplane crash at Pearson Field in Vancouver on April 24, 1927.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4244 - CHECC (Choose an Effective City Council) holds debut press conference in Seattle on April 24, 1967.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1223 - Bees disrupt protest at UW campus on April 24, 1969.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7637 - Legislature approves a $8.5 billion transportation tax package, which will survive a ballot challenge, on April 24, 2005.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2097 - Maggs water system in Seattle is granted rights on April 26, 1899.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2288 - Methane gas explosion kills seven coal miners at Black Diamond on April 26, 1907.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7244 - Washington receives its first federal highway grant, to pave a portion of Pacific Highway in Thurston County, on April 26, 1917.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9154 - Two inmates kill employee Benjamin Marshall in an attempted escape from the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe on April 26, 1951.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1386 - UW students participate in national student strike on April 26, 1968.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1387 - Citizens numbering 2,000 march in protest of Vietnam War on April 26, 1968.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8147 - Communications Department faculty open 50-year-old time capsule and find bawdy items at University of Washington in Seattle on April 26, 2007.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=385 - West Seattle Beginnings: Alki Post Office opens on April 29, 1854.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9892 - Steamer Cortez reaches Portland on April 29, 1861, with news of the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4195 - Gilman (later Issaquah) incorporates on April 29, 1892.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5124 - Bellingham's Mt. Baker Theatre opens on April 29, 1927.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9555 - A bomb explosion fatally injures Spokane pioneer aviator Major John T. Fancher during an air show in East Wenatchee on April 29, 1928.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2064 - Earthquake hits Puget Sound area on April 29, 1945.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3037 - Goldfish survives bizarre earthquake experience on April 29, 1965.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1986 - Earthquake rattles Western Washington on April 29, 1965.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1389 - T. A. Wilson becomes president of Boeing on April 29, 1968.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3600 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline begins on April 29, 1974.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9793 - Nastymix Records' party marks Gold Record awarded to Sir Mix-A-Lot's SWASS album on April 29, 1989.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4203 - Puget Sound Regional Council amends the Regional Airport System Plan to support a third runway at Sea-Tac International Airport and development of a major supplemental airport on April 29, 1993.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8649 - Schuyler and Eliza Saunders settle at future site of Chehalis on May 1, 1850.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3142 - Charles Terry homesteads site of Alki business district on May 1, 1852.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8327 - Mary Low Sinclair arrives in Cadyville (future Snohomish City) on May 1, 1865.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=924 - Seattle citizens begin work on their railroad, the Seattle & Walla Walla, on May 1, 1874.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2148 - Seattle City Council bans tents in fire area on May 1, 1890.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7586 - May Day picnic celebrates first irrigation water reaching Sequim Prairie on May 1, 1896.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5526 - First Washington Volunteer Infantry Regiment musters for the Spanish American War on May 1, 1898.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1093 - Brewery workers in 11 Puget Sound towns strike on May 1, 1905.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8982 - Grading crews finish work on the Rainier Vista (designed for Seattle's A-Y-P Exposition on the UW campus) on May 1, 1908.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7235 - Governor Roland Hartley fires J. Webster Hoover as State Highway Engineer and on May 1, 1927, appoints Samuel J. Humes.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9500 - Port of Willapa Harbor holds its first commission meeting on May 1, 1928.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2159 - Seattle Teachers' Credit Union is chartered on May 1, 1936.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9406 - Seattle opens Service Men's Club on May 1, 1941.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5474 - Salishan Housing Project in Tacoma opens for war workers on May 1, 1943.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9967 - Seattle docks and piers are given new designations on May 1, 1944.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1281 - Jim Whittaker, REI sales manager, becomes first American to reach Mount Everest summit on May 1, 1963.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7944 - King County's Home Rule Charter takes effect on May 1, 1969.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2308 - Weeks of protests erupt in Seattle beginning on May 1, 1970, against U. S. entry into Cambodia and to protest the killing of four Kent State students.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9940 - Nisqually Delta Association is founded on May 1, 1970.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2433 - Seattle is first major city to legislate a police shooting policy on May 1, 1978.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9907 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Environmental Impact Statement for a proposed Methow Valley ski resort is adequate on May 1, 1989.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3054 - Rioting erupts in Seattle following verdicts in Rodney King beating on May 1, 1992.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8169 - Wal-Mart opens its first store in Washington at Omak on May 1, 1993.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9851 - Helen and Bill Thayer begin a 1,600-mile walk across the Gobi Desert on May 1, 2001.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7980 - Thousands march streets of Seattle and Yakima in support of immigrants' rights on May 1, 2006.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5706 - The United States signs the Louisiana Purchase Treaty and buys Louisiana Territory from France on May 2, 1803.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5248 - American settlers in Oregon declare a provisional government on May 2, 1843.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9893 - Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Colonel George Wright receives orders on May 2, 1861, to send soldiers from Fort Vancouver to San Francisco.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3907 - Firland Sanatorium, Seattle's municipal tuberculosis hospital, opens as Henry Sanatorium on May 2, 1911.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2636 - Women anti-war protesters disrupt R.O.T.C. parade at University of Washington on May 2, 1922.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2810 - Voters elect Edwin J. Brown as mayor of the City of Seattle on May 2, 1922.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2533 - First women are elected to Seattle City Council on May 2, 1922.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8445 - DAR places a monument in Mukilteo in remembrance of the 1855 Point Elliott Treaty on May 2, 1931.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9631 - Voters in Franklin County create Port of Pasco on May 2, 1940, to provide facilities for grain barges on the Columbia River.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2873 - Victory Square is dedicated in Seattle on May 2, 1942.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9741 - County Grange sponsors meeting on May 2, 1966, to promote formation of Wahkiakum County's second port district.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8191 - Quarrels and scuffles in Sehome end with Abner Dunn shooting Frank Mahoney on May 3, 1862.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2214 - Seattle doubles in size by annexing north-of-downtown communities on May 3, 1891.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=558 - Seattle beginnings: Dunlap Post Office opens on May 3, 1894.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3316 - City of Seattle annexes the Town of South Park on May 3, 1907.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3321 - City of Seattle annexes Columbia City on May 3, 1907.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7091 - Columbia River Bridge at Kettle Falls opens to traffic on May 3, 1941.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3256 - Seattle University installs Fr. William J. Sullivan, SJ, as its 20th president on May 3, 1976.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7876 - About 200 WSU students and others riot in Pullman on May 3, 1998.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7932 - Several dozen fishermen drown off the mouth of the Columbia River on May 4, 1880.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9324 - Everett incorporates on May 4, 1893.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3175 - Seattle Steel Co. begins manufacturing steel products on May 4, 1905.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4160 - First bookmobile in Seattle takes to the road on May 4, 1931.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3620 - John M. Nelson becomes superintendent of Seattle City Light on May 4, 1963.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1229 - Thousands protest planned freeway through Seattle's Arboretum on May 4, 1969.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5133 - Expo 74 Spokane World's Fair opens on May 4, 1974.

Before the Fall: On http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9324 - May 4, 1893 , the city of http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?displaypage=output.cfm&file_id=7397 - Everett incorporated. Local residents didn't have much time to celebrate, as the New York http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?displaypage=output.cfm&file_id=1972 - stock market tumbled the next day, sending the nation into a deep economic depression that would last four years.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5067 - U.S. President Benjamin Harrison visits Tacoma on May 6, 1891.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9847 - Helga and Clara Estby begin walking from Mica Creek, Spokane County, to New York City on May 6, 1896.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5470 - Washington State carries out its first execution on May 6, 1904.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8696 - Women's University Club of Seattle holds its first meeting on May 6, 1914.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=318 - Ferry Peralta (rebuilt as Kalakala) burns down on May 6, 1933.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8170 - Fire destroys the Weiser Lumber Company in Marysville on May 6, 1955.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10104 - Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov visits Seattle's Century 21 Exposition on May 5 and May 6, 1962.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1449 - Black Student Union presents demands to University of Washington on May 6, 1968.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1230 - Seattle City Councilman Paul Alexander dies on May 6, 1969.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9909 - President Richard M. Nixon signs Executive Order 11593 authorizing the protection of the nation's cultural and historical sites as specified by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) on May 6, 1971.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9785 - Avista Utilities, the Sierra Club, and the Center for Environmental Law & Policy work out a dam-relicensing agreement to restore full-time flows to Spokane's Spokane Falls on May 6, 2009.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5050 - Captain Robert Gray enters Grays Harbor on May 7, 1792.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8491 - Aviator Fred J. Wiseman makes the first powered flight in Snohomish County in Snohomish on May 7, 1911.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9704 - Kitsap County Board of Commissioners on May 7, 1923, sets the date for a special election to form the Port of Manchester.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7749 - FBI arrest William Dainard, mastermind of the Weyerhaeuser kidnapping, in San Francisco on May 7, 1936.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9247 - Floatplane piloted by adventurer Bradford Washburn crashes upon landing at Lake Union and two drown on May 7, 1938.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2309 - Seattle Police vigilantes assault citizens on May 7, 1970.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7622 - Washoe and family move into the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute at Central Washington University (Ellensburg) on May 7, 1993.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5147 - Tacoma sells its portion of coal-fired steam plant near Centralia on May 7, 2000.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5291 - Captain George Vancouver names Port Townsend on May 8, 1792.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5374 - Seattle's Lake Washington Ship Canal is completed on May 8, 1917.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1279 - President Truman announces V-E Day, victory-in-Europe, on May 8, 1945.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9690 - Mukilteo incorporates on May 8, 1947.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3033 - Ferry Kaleetan rams the Seattle Ferry Terminal on May 8, 1968.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1231 - Washington State Legislature approves income tax, pending voter approval, on May 8, 1969.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3519 - Seattle Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) is chartered on May 8, 1970.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9442 - Ship Beaver reaches the Columbia River on May 9, 1812.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1626 - Seattle women hold Apron Festival on May 9, 1872.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8206 - New Whatcom City Hall opens on May 9, 1893.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8199 - Columbia River Quarantine Station at Knappton is established on May 9, 1899.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=579 - Hobart Beginnings: Hobart Post Office opens on May 9, 1903.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=372 - Boeing Airplane Co., formerly Pacific Aero-Products, is officially incorporated on May 9, 1917.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1278 - Longshoremen and maritime workers strike West Coast and Seattle on May 9, 1934.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9138 - Tulalip Tribal member Maria Sneatlum sings in a Boston recital on May 9, 1952.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1280 - Food and Drug Administration approves birth control pill on May 9, 1960.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7607 - Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson dedicates Ice Harbor Dam on May 9, 1962.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8242 - About 450 Canadians invade Blaine on May 9, 1970.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3773 - Washington State Supreme Court rules against Seattle landmark designation of First United Methodist Church on May 9, 1996.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9894 - Acting Governor Henry McGill issues a proclamation on May 10, 1861, calling on citizens to organize themselves into a civilian militia.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8016 - Worst coalmine disaster in Washington history kills 45 miners at Roslyn on May 10, 1892.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1069 - Cooks and waiters at Seattle's Hotel Butler strike on May 10, 1902.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3643 - Seattle's King Street Station opens on May 10, 1906.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9563 - Seattle City Council initiates condemnation process to acquire site for future Seward Park on May 10, 1909.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3785 - Seattle Police Officer Fred Ivey is shot and killed by a robbery suspect on May 10, 1928.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3618 - Eugene R. Hoffman becomes superintendent of Seattle City Light on May 10, 1939.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5250 - Federal Theatre Project enacts Flotilla of Faith historical pageant on the Columbia River at Vancouver on May 10, 1939.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3697 - Astronaut John Glenn visits the Seattle World's Fair on May 10, 1962.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9737 - Washington's State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) is approved on May 10, 1971.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8496 - Ice Age mammoth tusk is discovered at Moxee on May 10, 2001.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8762 - The Madrona-Sally Goldmark Branch, The Seattle Pubic Library, reopens on May 10, 2008.