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Seattle Mariner Alex Rodriguez signs with Texas Rangers for $252 million on December 11, 2000.

On December 11, 2000, Seattle Mariner shortstop and superstar hitter Alex Rodriguez signs with the Texas Rangers for $252 million over 10 years. Rodriguez exercises his rights as a free agent to leave...

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Train and house collide in Auburn on December 23, 2000.

On the night of December 23, 2000, a chartered Amtrak train smashes through a house that had stalled on the tracks during transport through Auburn. The freak accident occurs at 11:15 p.m. on a Burling...

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Mysterious monolith materializes in Seattle's Magnuson Park on January 1, 2001.

On the morning of January 1, 2001, Magnuson Park visitors discover a metalic monolith atop Kite Hill. The oblong object measures approximately three feet wide by nine feet tall and appears to be hollo...

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University of Washington Husky football team wins 34-24 in its 14th Rose Bowl matchup on January 1, 2001.

On January 1, 2001, the University of Washington Huskies defeat the Purdue Boilermakers 34-24 in the annual Rose Bowl game in Pasadena, California. The Rose Bowl pits a football team from the PAC-10 c...

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Federal government imposes stringent new salmon-conservation rules on January 8, 2001.

On January 8, 2001, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), a federal agency based in Seattle, implements sweeping regulations intended to protect Puget Sound's dwindling chinook runs. The new "...

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Barry Ackerley sells Seattle SuperSonics to an investment group led by Howard Schultz (Starbucks) on January 11, 2001.

On January 11, 2001, Barry Ackerley, owner of the Seattle SuperSonics NBA franchise, reaches an agreement to sell the team to an investment group led by Starbucks Corporation founder Howard Schultz. T...

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Truck accidentally destroys Seattle's historic Pioneer Square pergola on January 15, 2001.

On January 15, 2001, the historic iron and glass pergola at Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle collapses when a truck strikes it around 5:45 a.m. The pergola and the nearby Tlingit totem pole (which i...

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Duwamish Tribe wins federal recognition on January 19, 2001, but loses it again two days later.

On January 19, 2001, the Duwamish Tribe wins federal recognition. However, fewer than 48 hours later, the tribe learns that President George W. Bush has suspended a batch of President Clinton's 11th-h...

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Seattle's historic Coe Elementary School burns on January 21, 2001.

On January 21, 2001, just after midnight, historic Franz H. Coe Elementary School on Queen Anne Hill burns to the ground. The three-story wood building dating from 1907 is being heavily remodeled when...

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Fat Tuesday violence in Seattle's Pioneer Square kills one man on February 27, 2001.

On February 27, 2001, in Seattle's Pioneer Square, Fat Tuesday revelers turn violent, killing one man (20-year-old Kristopher Kime of Kent died from injuries sustained in a beating) and injuring 71 ot...

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Earthquake registering 6.8 on Richter Scale jolts Seattle and Puget Sound on February 28, 2001.

At 10:54 a.m. on February 28, 2001, a deep earthquake centered near the Nisqually Delta northwest of Olympia startles the entire Puget Sound region and causes more than $1 billion in damage to area bu...

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Des Moines Police Officer Steven J. Underwood is shot and killed on March 7, 2001.

On March 7, 2001, at approximately 1:20 a.m, Des Moines Police Officer Steven J. Underwood is shot and killed on Pacific Highway S. Charles Sydney Champion Jr., age 19, is charged with the crime. In J...

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