On November 19, 1971, Washington Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (1912-1983) announces his campaign for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination. Speaking in the Old Senate Office Building with hi...
On the dark and stormy Thanksgiving Eve of November 24, 1971, a skyjacker calling himself "Dan Cooper" commandeers a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 shortly after it takes off from Portland, Oregon, for...
In 1971, the first lot of books comprising the personal library of British literary figures Leonard (1880-1969) and Virginia (1882-1941) Woolf arrives at Washington State University's Holland Library....
On December 16, 1971, Vice President Spiro Agnew (1918-1996) awards the Medal of Honor to Robert R. Leisy (1945-1969) posthumously. Leisy's parents, Arthur A. Leisy (1905-1984) and Josephine Leisy (19...
On December 17, 1971, eight months after voting to approve a site in north Ballard for the new Seattle Aquarium, the Seattle City Council votes to reverse itself and to bar the aquarium from being loc...
On January 1, 1972, Seattle heart surgeon Lester R. Sauvage (1926-2015) and his associates at the Reconstructive Cardiovascular Research Center publish Prosthetic Replacement of the Aortic Valve, summ...
On January 25, 1972, Pacific Car and Foundry Co. becomes PACCAR Inc. The name change reflects the evolution of the company since it first began manufacturing logging trucks on tideflats in Humphrey (W...
In a special election on February 8, 1972, Seattle voters endorse the City Council's cancelation of the R. H. Thomson Expressway, a planned third north-south highway through Seattle (in addition to St...
In 1972, Tacoma joins in construction of two nuclear power plants under construction by the Washington Public Power Supply System -- WPPSS -- in Hanford and at Satsop in Grays Harbor County. The move ...
In the spring of 1972, Seattle Rape Relief, the first rape crisis center in the United States, begins work.
In the spring of 1972, Sagemoor manager John Pringle begins planting 280 acres of Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, and Riesling vines on two of Sagemoor's vineyards, Sagemoor and Bacchus, situated...
At about 12:51 p.m. on April 5, 1972, a severe (category F3) tornado strikes the eastern part of Vancouver, Washington. The tornado demolishes the Peter Skene Ogden Elementary School, then sweeps thr...