On June 30, 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Initiative 350, a 1978 voter-approved measure banning mandatory busing for desegregation, is unconstitutional. The ruling represents a victory for t...
In July 1982, Mayor Charles Royer withdraws Seattle from planning for nuclear war. Royer calls Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) plans to evacuate the population of Seattle to east of the Cas...
On July 15, 1982 two teenage boys, who live in nearby Kent, spot a body in the Green River floating against the Meeker Street Bridge. The body is recovered and the cause of death is determined to be m...
On August 11, 1982, a new and exciting type of beer has its official debut at Jake O'Shaughnessy's, a popular Seattle restaurant and bar. It will prove to be a pivotal event, helping to launch a craft...
On August 12, 1982, Frank Linard discovers the body of a woman floating in the Green River, yards from the Kent slaughterhouse where he works. The remains are identified as those of Debra Lynn Bonner,...
On August 26, 1982, President Ronald Reagan signs into law the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Act. Along with several cosponsors, U.S. Representative Don Bonker, a Democrat who repre...
On the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, September 4, 1982, the Seattle Symphony performs at the dedication of Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks Park in Kent, in south King County. The design for the park -- ...
On September 7, 1982, the King County Council adopts the Conservation Futures Tax to fund the county's Farmland Preservation Program. Proceeds from the Conservation Futures property tax can be used to...
From September 24 to October 2, 1982, civic activists try to stimulate a dialogue on doomsday with "Target Seattle," a week-long symposium on the dangers of nuclear war, in what Mayor Charles Royer ca...
At 10:14 in the morning of October 22, 1982, the fish-processing ship Al-Ind-Esk-A Sea, which is on fire at its anchorage less than a mile off the Port of Everett, sinks 200 feet or more into Port Gar...
On November 2, 1982, Democratic Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (1912-1983) wins re-election to his sixth term as a U.S. Senator and Democrats regain the majority in the state legislature. Initiatives fail t...
On November 2, 1982, King County voters defeat the PRO/Parks bond issue at the polls. The bond asked for $188 million for city and county park acquisitions and improvements. It was thought to have the...
In December 1982, the Great Western Malting Company, located since 1935 on land leased from the Port of Vancouver, starts generating heat and electricity with an on-site, gas-turbine cogeneration plan...
On December 14, 1982, Washington red wines burst onto the national scene when a Cabernet Sauvignon from Walla Walla's Leonetti Cellar is named the best in the nation. The award is the result of a blin...
In the early morning darkness on December 15, 1982, three buses loaded with VIPs cross the new Glenn L. Jackson Bridge over the Columbia River from Vancouver to Portland and return. Other than constru...
In January 1983, Harry A. Pryde (1930-2009), former president of the Home Builders Association of Greater Seattle, assumes leadership of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). It is a diffi...
In 1983, the Wallingford Center, a retail center with upstairs apartments, opens. Located in the business district of Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood at the corner of Wallingford Avenue N and N 45t...
On January 26, 1983, Group Health Cooperative's Board of Trustees creates the Center for Health Studies.The center formalizes Group Health's internal research activities, which track outcomes of speci...
On February 19, 1983, three armed men enter the Wah Mee Club, a gambling club in Seattle's Chinatown International District, to carry out a bold heist. They leave behind 13 dead, one eyewitness, and a...
On February 19, 1983, race-car driver Cheryl Linn Glass (1961-1997) marries Richard Allan Lindwall (b. 1957), the head mechanic on her racing team, in an elaborate $50,000 ceremony at St. Mark's Episc...
On March 23, 1983, the U. S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms designates the Yakima Valley as the first federally recognized wine grape growing region in Washington and the first north of Cali...
On April 2, 1983, leaders of the Tulalip Tribes celebrate the opening of a modern, $7.2 million fish hatchery on the Tulalip Reservation west of Marysville in Snohomish County. The hatchery, located w...
On April 14, 1983, F. W. Langguth Winery unveils its first vintage of Washington wines at the annual KCTS Festival of Wines in Seattle. Langguth, a German winemaking behemoth, is the first major forei...
On April 21, 1983, the Tacoma Dome opens its doors as one of the largest wood domed structures in the world. It is owned and operated by the City of Tacoma's Public Assembly Facilities Department and ...