On March 9, 1971, voters in the Shoreline School District defeated a school levy which, if passed, would have provided the school district with nearly $6 million. Many considered the levy too high, co...
On the morning of March 30, 1971, Jerry Baldwin (b. 1942), Gordon Bowker (b. 1942), and Zev Siegl (b. 1942) flip on the lights and set a sandwich board outside their new coffee shop at 2000 Western Av...
On April 5, 1971, the Seattle City Council gives preliminary approval to a controversial site for a new Seattle Aquarium at Meadow Point, just north of Golden Gardens Park in Ballard, northwest of dow...
On April 6, 1971, Seattle City Council's Personnel Committee names 14 city residents to serve on the new Women's Commission, an advisory body that Mayor Wes Uhlman (b. 1935) created the year before. ...
On April 9, 1971, Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman proposes that the city establish a Division on Aging, one of the nation's first. The agency will be part of the city's new Office of Human Resources and wil...
On April 16, 1971, real-estate agents Bob McDonald and Jim Youngren put the words, "Will the last person leaving SEATTLE -- Turn out the lights" on a billboard at S 167th Street and Pacific Highway S ...
In the early morning on Sunday, April 25, 1971, fire sweeps through the Seventh Avenue Apartments in downtown Seattle, killing 12 people and injuring 11. The Seattle Fire Department is on scene within...
On April 30, 1971, the Union Pacific Railroad discontinues passenger service to Union Station in Seattle.
On May 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) signs an executive order authorizing the protection of the nation's cultural and historical sites as specified by the National Environmental Poli...
On May 10, 1971, Washington state's House of Representatives passes the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA). Inspired by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 -- which was promoted by...
In 1971, the L. T. Murray family (owners of the Northwest timber firm Murray Pacific) presents the Tacoma Art Museum with an elegant three-story building at 12th Street and Pacific Avenue. Built in 19...
On June 1, 1971, the Seattle City Council approves ordinance No. 99982, establishing the Seattle Arts Commission. Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman (b. 1935), who has strongly supported the formation of such a...