On January 26, 1993, Rosa Gourdine Franklin (b. 1927) is sworn in as Washington state’s first African American woman senator. Franklin has just completed two years of her first term as a State R...
On January 27, 1993, the state Transportation Commission names Sid Morrison (b. 1933) as Secretary of Transportation to replace retiring Secretary Duane Berentson (1928-2013). Morrison, a Zillah resid...
On February 1, 1993, the King County Library System (KCLS) opens a 15,000-square-foot library at 17105 Avondale Road NE in Woodinville in northeast King County. Although it isn't Woodinville's first l...
On February 28, 1993, the city of Burien incorporates. Residents had voted two to one in favor of incorporation on March 10, 1992. Burien becomes Washington's 22nd-largest city, behind Lynnwood, but ...
In March 1993, the Muckleshoot Indian tribe puts forth a plan for it to control the 151-acre surplussed naval property at Sand Point near Warren G. Magnuson Park.
On March 27, 1993, residents of Woodinville celebrate their incorporation as a city. The vote to incorporate, which occurred on May 19, 1992, was the third effort at incorporation in 11 years and aff...
On April 1, 1993, the Covington Library opens at 27100 164th Avenue SE in the city of Covington. One of the busiest libraries in the King County Library System, it will be expanded in 2008 by more tha...
On April 29, 1993, the Puget Sound Regional Council's General Assembly adopts Resolution A-93-03 amending the 1988 Regional Airport System Plan on the basis of a three-year Flight Plan study concluded...
On May 1, 1993, Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the United States, opens its first store in Washington in Omak (population 4,120). The 93,188-square-foot retail center on State Route 97 overlooking ...
On May 7, 1993, chimpanzee Washoe (1965-2007) and her family members, Loulis, Moja, Dar, and Tatu, move into the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute, their newly constructed home at Central W...
The Seattle Times reports on May 25, 1993, that pioneering computer-game company Sierra On-Line, Inc., owned and operated by Roberta (b. 1953) and Kenneth (b. 1954) Williams, will soon move its corpor...
On May 29, 1993, a farmers market opens in Seattle's University District neighborhood at the University Heights Community Center at the corner of NE 50th and University Way NE. The University District...