On September 13, 2001, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) adds Seattle's Duwamish Waterway to its National Priority List of polluted sites. As much as four feet of sediment at the mouth of...
On September 14, 2001, more than 2,000 citizens converge on downtown Seattle's Westlake Park as part of a national "Day of Remembrance" and participate in a world-wide moment of silence following the ...
On September 18, 2001, Seattle City Attorney Mark Sidran (b. 1951) and Metropolitan King County Council member Greg Nickels (b. 1955) garner more votes in the primary election than Mayor Paul Schell (...
On October 2, 2001, the Cedar River Watershed Education Center is dedicated at the entrance to the watershed overlooking Rattlesnake Lake. The $6.8 million education center is intended to serve 30,000...
On October 7, 2001, the Seattle Mariners play their last regular game of the 2001 season, losing to the Texas Rangers by a score of 4-3. However, with the Mariners' victory over the Rangers the night ...
On October 8, 2001, Dr. Leland H. Hartwell (b. 1939), president and director of Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, is named as a recipient of the Nobel Prize for "Physiology or Medicine...
On November 2, 2001, Mountlake Terrace police arrest a 36-year-old man and two teenage boys on charges associated with an early morning attack on the Masjid Omar al-Farooq Mosque. Police said the thre...
On November 6, 2001, Metropolitan King County Council member Greg Nickels (b. 1955) narrowly defeats City Attorney Mark Sidran to win election as mayor of Seattle. Because of the high number of absent...
On November 7, 2001, the FBI raids the Maka Mini Mart and Halal Meats and the businesses sharing its space as part of an investigation into one of those businesses, Barakat Wire Transfer Service. The ...
On November 13, 2001, the Southwest Seattle Historical Society and Alki Community Council stage a re-enactment of the arrival of Seattle's founding settlers 150 years earlier. More than 300 brave citi...
On November 23, 2001, at 10:00 a.m., Santa Claus opens the doors to the new Library Connection @ Crossroads, the King County Library System's new library space in the Crossroads Mall. This begins a da...
On November 30, police arrest Gary Leon Ridgway as a suspect in the Green River Killer case. The case is one of the nation's worst unsolved serial murder cases, involving the murders of at least 49 yo...