On November 9, 1984, Seattle Parks Superintendent Walter Hundley (1929-2002) announces the resignation of Seattle Aquarium director Ronald Glazier. Glazier cites frustration with Parks Department mana...
On November 15, 1984, a British Airways Concorde supersonic airliner pays its first visit to Seattle. The slender delta-winged SST lands at Boeing Field bearing a cargo of just-bottled Beaujolais nouv...
On December 8, 1984, Robert Jay Mathews, founder of the violent white-supremist group The Order, is killed in a house fire near Smuggler's Cove on Whidbey Island after a 35-hour standoff with the Fede...
On December 18, 1984, Seattle Police Officer Nicholas N. Davis is murdered by Michael Robert Trott, an unemployed drifter later determined to be suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. Davis had stoppe...
On December 31, 1984, in the early morning hours, Everett’s oldest church building, the Lowell Community Church (5216 S. 2nd Avenue), is destroyed by fire. The structure dates back to 1892, its land...
In 1985, the Seattle Foot, a prosthetic device for lower limb amputees, is introduced by Prosthetics Research Study Lab. The revolutionary device can be used while performing extremely vigorous activi...
On March 2, 1985, the Mansfield Branch Line owned by the Burlington Northern Railroad (previously the Great Northern Railway) terminates service to and from Mansfield, ending 76 years of boxcar and pa...
On March 2, 1985, the first tenants occupy the 76-story Columbia Center, the tallest building in the Pacific Northwest. Constructed at a cost of $200 million amid controversy over its architectural va...
On April 8, 1985, all nine members of the King County Council vote to approve a new Comprehensive Plan to replace the document that has guided land use and development in the county since 1964. The un...
On April 8, 1985, the Lower Green River Valley and four other county Agricultural Production Districts are designated in the new Comprehensive Plan adopted by the King County Council. The Lower Green ...
On April 23, 1985, Seattle Police Officer Dale E. Eggers is murdered during a bank robbery.
On April 27, 1985, Group Health Cooperative holds its first membership meeting outside Seattle, in Tacoma Dome, and soundly defeats an attempt to ban abortions at Group Health facilities. The meeting ...