On April 27, 1983, the Group Health Cooperative Board of Trustees approves the hiring of 10 midwives on a permanent basis. The Group Health Women's Caucus first proposed the use of natural childbirth...
On May 18, 1983, Group Health's 1,200 nurses vote to replace the Washington State Nurses Association with District 1199 Northwest as their bargaining agent. District 1199 Northwest is a unit of the Na...
On May 23, 1983, the first issues of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to be printed on presses at The Seattle Times are delivered, inaugurating the Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) between the two newspa...
In June 1983, the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle bars Gus Hall, general secretary of the American Communist Party, from speaking at the East Madison YMCA, saying the principles o...
On Sunday, August 21, 1983, a Lockheed Model L-18 Learstar operated by Landry Aviation, Inc. takes off from Arlington Municipal Airport carrying two pilots and 24 parachutists who plan to perform a co...
On September 1, 1983, U.S. Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (1912-1983) dies in Everett of a heart attack. Jackson represented Washington in the House of Representatives and in the Senate for 42 years...
On Monday, September 5, 1983, legendary Pacific Northwest animation-art savant/pioneer Bruce Bickford (1947-2019) premieres a preliminary cut of his years-in-the-making Prometheus' Garden at the Bumbe...
In September 1983, Group Health Cooperative's View magazine sounds its first alarm on a new disease dubbed Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). View reports that, as of early August, six cases h...
On September 15, 1983, the first Costco discount warehouse opens on 4th Avenue S in Seattle. The warehouse offers food, appliances, clothes, office supplies, and other goods at prices below general re...
On September 16, 1983, it is officially established that the University of Washington's prestigious School of International Studies (as based in the campus's old Thomson Hall) is to be rededicated as ...
On September 26, 1983, five Puget Sound Women's Peace Camp protesters are arrested inside the Kent Boeing Aerospace Center's cruise missile facility. Susan James, Kristen Delaney (1961-1985), Tammy Jo...
On September 26, 1983, The Evergreen State College's Tacoma Program holds the first day of classes as an official part of The Evergreen State College. This first day follows the Council for Post-Secon...