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...
On December 17, 2001, a three-alarm fire destroys a three-story commercial building housing Masins Furniture and other businesses in the 10200 block of Main Street in Old Bellevue. No one is injured, ...
On December 18, 2001, Amgen, Inc. agrees to buy Immunex Corp., Seattle's largest biotech firm, for $16 billion in stock and cash. Amgen, based in Thousand Oaks, California outside Los Angeles, is the ...
On December 28, 2001, Washington State Ferries concludes the celebration of its first 50 years with the sealing and placement of a time capsule inside the Colman Clock case at Colman Dock on the Seatt...
On January 4, 2002, Sergeant First Class Nathan Ross Chapman (1970-2002) of Puyallup is killed in eastern Afghanistan. He is the first U.S. casualty of enemy fire in the Afghanistan War. Sergeant Firs...