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Radio and television personality "New York" Vinnie Richichi was hosting a morning show on Sports Radio 950 KJR AM in 1995 when the Seattle Mariners shocked the New York Yankees in the American League ...
Pat O'Day, a legendary Seattle disc jockey and arguably the city's best-known voice, died on August 4, 2020, at age 86. O'Day was program director and DJ at KJR in the 1960s when Channel 95 had rating...
HistoryLink.org is the first encyclopedia of community history created expressly for the Internet. The free encyclopedia was the vision of local historian, author, and civic activist Walt Crowley (194...
Lawrence Matsuda (b. 1945) is an award-winning poet, author, and educator who in 1969 started the first Asian-American history course in Washington public schools. Matsuda was born in the Japanes...
Marvin Klegman, an 11-year-old crossing guard at Lowell Elementary School in Tacoma, shielded a 6-year-old boy from falling bricks during a 7.1-magnitude earthquake on April 13, 1949. In saving kinder...
Irvine Robbins, who started scooping ice cream as a kid in his family’s Seattle and Tacoma stores, used his entrepreneurial spirit to create Baskin-Robbins, the world’s best-known ice crea...
This history of Catharine Blaine School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building used by ...
This history of Crown Hill School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building used by the di...
This history of David T. Denny Middle School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building use...
This history of Edward S. Ingraham High School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building u...
This history of Franklin High School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building used by the...
This history of Garfield High School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building used by the...
This history of Gatewood School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building used by the...
This history of Georgetown School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building used by the di...
On March 10, 1873, The Weekly Intelligencer in Seattle writes of "An Astounding and Inexplicable Affair," alleging that Seattle Mayor Corliss P. Stone has swindled $15,000 of his business pa...
On November 27, 1901, Seattle Mayor Thomas J. Humes signs ordinances to repeal actions by the Seattle City Council that would have created 120-foot boulevards on the north and south sides of what beca...
On October 10, 1943, Shirley Belle Robbins marries Burton Baskin at Glendale Golf and Country Club near Seattle. A decade later, Shirley's older brother Irvine will re-brand his Snowbird ice cream sho...
On July 14, 1954, 21-year-old Edmund Andrew Marmur (1932-2014) boards a Douglas DC-3 at Sea-Tac International Airport, demands to be flown to Africa, and fires two shots near a frightened flight atten...
On November 7, 1975, Garfield and Bishop Blanchet high schools face off for the Seattle Metro League football championship before a record-setting crowd of 12,951 at Memorial Stadium. Blanchet is the ...
On May 6, 1978, Barbara "Bonnie" Beers graduates as the first fulltime professional woman firefighter in the 89-year history of the Seattle Fire Department. Beers, who first applied for a firefighter ...
On February 10, 1980, 8-year-old Brian Ingram (b. 1969) is smoothing sand for a campfire on the Washington side of the Columbia River when he comes across three deteriorating packs of $20 bills still ...
On the morning of Monday, April 2, 2007, the deranged ex-boyfriend of University of Washington employee Rebecca Jane Griego (1981-2007) kills her at the UW's Gould Hall before fatally shooting himself...
On the evening of September 23, 2016, Arcan Cetin (1996-2017) walks into the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Skagit County, armed with a Ruger 10/22 rifle, and kills five random victims inside Macy's. Cet...
At 12:17 a.m. on Monday, February 4, 2019, the State Route 99 tunnel replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct opens to traffic. The 1.7-mile route under downtown Seattle is North America's largest bored tunn...
On June 28, 2021, the third day of a withering heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, the temperature in Seattle soars to 108 degrees, an all-time record. The reading is recorded at nearby Seattle-T...