On June 26, 1976, Oliver's Lounge opens in the Mayflower Park Hotel in downtown Seattle. Taking advantage of a change in regulations, Oliver's is the city's first "daylight bar," meaning passersby can...
On July 1, 1976, new forest practices rules that regulate logging and its impacts on the environment take effect. This is the first major change in the regulation of logging in 30 years. The regulatio...
On July 12, 1976, the Seattle City Council votes not to participate in two nuclear power plants and passes five resolutions adopting conservation as a long-term energy strategy. Mayor Wes Uhlman (b. 1...
On July 15, 1976, a release of water from the Mud Mountain Dam and a Puget Power diversion dam sends a surge of water roaring down the White River. Moving at six miles per hour, the five-foot tall wal...
On August 1, 1976, nurses at Group Health Cooperative begin a 28-day strike. They are organized within the Washington State Nurses Association. As employees of a nonprofit hospital, the nurses had gai...
On August 30, 1976, Harold McCluskey, a chemical operator at the Hanford nuclear weapons plant, becomes "The Atomic Man" when he survives accidental radiological contamination. McCluskey becomes so ra...
On September 13, 1976, Cutter and Bone, the fourth novel by Newton Thornburg (1929-2011), is published by Little, Brown, and Company. It's a tale of two lost souls looking for the big score, but it's ...
On September 23, 1976, Seattle Police Officer Dorian L. Halvorson (1946-1976) is fatally shot by Gary Horton, who then turns his gun on himself.
On October 13, 1976, the federal Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in its opinion in Concerned About Trident v. Rumsfeld, rules unambiguously that even military projects deemed cr...
On September 1, 1976, a consultant team for Group Health Cooperative delivers a report titled "Problems of Appointment Availability." Group Health commissioned this study after consumer problems in ma...
On November 2, 1976, Dixy Lee Ray (1914-1994), a conservative Democrat, wins election as the first woman to be governor of Washington. Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (1912-1983), who earlier in the ...
In December 1976, Michael Heizer (b. 1944) completes installation of his minimalist sculpture Adjacent, Against, Upon in Seattle's Myrtle Edwards Park. At the time of its unveiling, the set of three b...