On the afternoon of July 26, 1970, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) headlines a concert at Seattle's venerable outdoor ballpark, Sicks' Stadium. The all-day festival is billed as a "Concert on the Ground," bu...
On July 28, 1970, Mayor Wes Uhlman (b. 1935) tells the U.S. Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations that for the past 16 months, "Seattle has the dubious distinction" of the highest number of bom...
On the consecutive nights of July 28 and 29, 1970, the cutting-edge device officially marketed as the "Buchla 100 Modular Electronic Music System" debuts in Seattle at a demonstration event promoted a...
On August 9, 1970, after nearly half a decade in the making, the King County Library System's Newport Way Library is dedicated in Bellevue's Eastgate neighborhood. The attractive, 8,025-square-foot bu...
On August 23, 1970, lightning ignites fires in the Wenatchee National Forest that consume 122,000 acres. The fires, called the Entiat Burn, will burn for 15 days before they are contained and rain beg...
On September 8, 1970, Seattle Transit launches the first express bus service between Northgate and downtown Seattle. The "Blue Streak" will serve as a model for dozens of additional park-and-ride rout...
On September 9, 1970, Tacoma Police arrest 60 persons during a confrontation over Native American rights to fish. When state officers attempt to remove a fish net set in the river by tribal members, f...
On September 15, 1970, Tacoma voters recall five members of the city council, leaving Mayor Gordon Johnston, the presiding officer of the council, and the remaining three council members without the n...
On September 15, 1970, Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (1912-1983) easily wins the Democratic Senate primary by defeating peace candidate Carl Maxey (1924-1997), a Spokane attorney and civil rights l...
On September 18, 1970, the U.S. Department of Justice under President Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) files suit to stop the state of Washington from preventing or restricting Native American tribes "fro...
On September 18, 1970, Seattle-born rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix dies of suffocation after ingesting barbiturates in London, England, at the age of 27. His remains are returned to the United States and...
On October 1, 1970, rock legend Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is mourned at his Seattle funeral and wake and buried in Renton. Hendrix had died on September 18, 1970, at age 27 while asleep in London, not ...