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Wellington Scrapbook- The 1910 Avalanche Disaster

Today in Washington History

Plats filed for Town of Seattle on May 23, 1853.

Beer drivers in Seattle unionize on May 23, 1901.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt visits Seattle and Fort Lawton on May 23, 1903.

Great White Fleet visits Seattle on May 23, 1908.

Municipal League of Seattle is founded on May 23, 1910.

Laundry workers strike all Everett plants on May 23, 1910.

Taxicab drivers strike Seattle Taxicab Company on May 23, 1917.

Dance Marathon/Walkathon in Spanaway closes when organizers are arrested on May 23, 1931.

Bremerton NAACP branch is founded on May 23, 1943.

Fire partially destroys lumber mill at Monohon site on May 23, 1944.

Truck overturns, spilling elephants, in Seattle's Phinney Ridge neighborhood on May 23, 1958.

Kenno Carlos is arrested for flag desecration on May 23, 1968.

Ferry Yakima enters service on May 23, 1968.

University of Washington endorses Black Studies curriculum on May 23, 1968.

Bombings in Seattle move President Nixon to cancel nerve-gas shipments through Puget Sound on May 23, 1970.

Following renovation, Seattle's Olympic Hotel reopens as the Four Seasons Olympic on May 23, 1982.

Joint Operating Agreement between The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer goes into effect on May 23, 1983.

Port of Seattle and Puget Sound Council of Governments launch Flight Plan study on May 23, 1989.

U.S. District Court Judge William Dwyer blocks timber sales to protect the northern spotted owl on May 23, 1991.

Town of Forks shuts down to protest owl restrictions on May 23, 1991.

The U.S.S. Missouri (BB-63) departs Bremerton en route to Pearl Harbor on May 23, 1998.

New Central Library opens in downtown Seattle on May 23, 2004.

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Jones, Robert C. (b. 1930)

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Early edit of Bruce Bickford's epic animated film Prometheus' Garden debuts in Seattle on September 5, 1983.

Bartell, George David (b. 1951)

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