On September 28, 1983, the Group Health Board of Trustees incorporates the Foundation of Group Health Cooperative. The foundation is established to generate funds for research and special programs and...
On September 30, 1983, Mill Creek incorporates. After a failed attempt at development in the late 1960s, the community blooms during the latter half of the 1970s as a planned, country-club community. ...
In October 1983, Seattle SuperSonics owner Sam Schulman agrees to sell Seattle’s NBA (National Basketball Association) franchise to Barry Ackerley, a billboard magnate originally from Des Moines...
On October 12, 1983, the Orion Multi-Service Center opens in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. A safe haven for homeless youth, the center occupies 6,800 square feet in a converted clothing warehouse a...
On November 8, 1983, Seattle restaurateur and celebrity Ivar Haglund (1905-1985) is unintentionally elected to a six-year term on the Seattle Port Commission, after he files to run as a publicity gag.
On November 8, 1983, former Governor Daniel J. Evans (b. 1925) wins a special election to complete the term of Senator Henry M. Jackson (1912-1983), who died two months earlier. Evans defeats Democrat...
On December 13, 1983, Pacific Northwest Ballet premieres a new production of Nutcracker. The ballet is choreographed by Pacific Northwest Ballet artistic director Kent Stowell (b. 1939) with sets and ...
On January 15, 1984, hundreds of singing and chanting people walk from Seattle's Mount Zion Baptist Church to the intersection of E Cherry Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way. For the diverse crowd,...
On January 26, 1984, the Love Israel Family, Washington's largest and best-known countercultural commune, gives up all its Seattle properties in an out-of-court settlement. Founded on Queen Anne Hill ...
In March 1984 the charter members of the Washington State Software Industry Development Board gather to conduct their initial organizational meeting. The meeting takes place at the Seattle offices of ...
On March 5, 1984, the Seattle City Council passes Ordinance 111571, in reparation to municipal employees fired during World War II because of their Japanese ancestry. The ordinance is introduced by Co...
On March 27, 1984, a man being evicted from an apartment fatally stabs King County Sheriff's Detective Michael L. Raburn.