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Scheduled service on the Northern Pacific Railroad between New Tacoma and Kalama begins on January 5, 1874.
Big snow startles Puget Sound beginning on January 5, 1880.
An Everett News reporter takes a death-defying ride down the log chute at a Lowell sawmill and lives to write about it on January 5, 1892.
Typhoid erupts among prisoners in filthy Seattle jail on January 5, 1901.
Green Lake streetcar jumps the track on January 5, 1920, killing one passenger and injuring 70.
Leaky Coliseum roof halts Seattle SuperSonics-Phoenix Suns game, the first National Basketball Association contest called on account of rain, on January 5, 1986.
Washington resumes the death penalty by hanging Westley Allan Dodd on January 5, 1993.
Four firefighters die in Pang arson fire in International District on January 5, 1995.
Miss Columbia is declared Queen of the Carnival at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle on August 19, 1909.
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle celebrates Elks Day, Port Townsend Day, W.C.T.U. Day, and Baker City Day on July 28, 1909.
Saint John the Evangelist Parish (Seattle)
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