On November 3, 1981 voters re-elect Charles Royer (b. 1939) as mayor of the City of Seattle.
On November 23, 1981, Group Health Cooperative and University of Washington School of Medicine sign the nation's first formal affiliation agreement between an HMO and a university medical school. The ...
On November 28, 1981, the City of Issaquah honors Julius Boehm (1897-1981) for his contributions as a civic leader and founder and longtime proprietor of Boehm's Candies in the city by proclaiming tha...
In 1982, the Seattle-King County Convention and Visitors Bureau adopts "The Emerald City" as an epithet for Seattle and incorporates it into a logo to promote tourism. (An epithet indicates some quali...
In 1982, Flo Ware Park is named for an African American community activist. Located on the southeast corner of 28th Avenue S and S Jackson Street, it is a miniature park of 21,600 square feet. Florasi...
On January 17, 1982, Seattle historian and photographer Paul Dorpat (b. 1938) publishes his first "Now & Then" column in The Seattle Times: Pacific Magazine. The column compares two photographs, "...
On January 20, 1982, Seattle's first general interest newspaper for the Chinese community, His Hua Pao or Seattle Chinese Post, appears. The Seattle Chinese Post, Inc., headed by Assunta Ng, publishes...
On January 25, 1982, the 7,200-square-foot Polynesia Restaurant on Seattle's Pier 51, which prospered during the Century 21 World's Fair and for years after, is lifted onto a large barge and moved to ...
On March 7, 1982, the Washington House of Representatives votes overwhelmingly to tear down or cover over murals by Michael Spafford (1935-2022) called Twelve Labor of Hercules, which were commissione...
On May 23, 1982, The Four Seasons Olympic hotel reopens after being shut down for almost two years for a major renovation and restoration campaign. Built in 1924, the hotel had undergone many changes ...
On May 29, 1982, the downtown Seattle Waterfront Streetcar makes its inaugural run between Pioneer Square and Pier 70. The event caps an eight-year crusade by Seattle City Council Member George Benson...
On June 24, 1982, King County Department of Public Safety Detective Sgt. Samuel A. Hicks is killed by a man with a rifle. Sgt. Hicks and his partner were investigating a homicide and followed a suspec...
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...