On September 15, 1990, Metro Transit buses begin regular service in the new downtown Seattle transit tunnel. The route is used by new "dual-mode" buses which switch from diesel to electric power upon ...
On September 28, 1990, the leaders of both houses of the state Legislature, Democratic House Speaker Joe King and Republican Senate Majority Leader Jeannette Hayner (1919-2010), sign a letter proposed...
On October 1, 1990, the University of Washington's Tacoma Campus begins classes for 176 students in the Perkins Building at 1103 A Street. The temporary location is designed to serve approximately 400...
On October 1, 1990, the University of Washington (UW) opens its Bothell Branch with 155 juniors and seniors. The location at the Canyon Park Business Center is temporary until construction of a perman...
On October 8, 1990, E. Donnall Thomas, M.D. (1920-2012) is named as a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine. The award honors the Bellevue resident for some 40 years of research on bone marrow tran...
On October 14, 1990, in Seattle's Nisei Veterans Hall, the United States government officially apologizes to five Japanese Americans, ages 100 and over, who had been unjustly incarcerated during the i...
On Monday, October 22, 1990, a fresh band composed of veteran Seattle rock musicians -- and a new singer named Eddie Vedder (b. 1964) recently recruited from California -- debuts at the Off Ramp Cafe ...
On November 6, 1990, Washington voters reject an initiative to limit growth. Republicans retain control of the state Senate and the Democratic majority in the House slips. Voters in five counties reso...
On November 16, 1990, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA - 25 U.S.C. §3001 et seq.) passes the 101st Congress. The law addresses the rights of lineal descen...
On November 16, 1990, playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) moves to Seattle. He is in the midst of composing his monumental, 10-play cycle chronicling African American life in the twentieth century, w...
On November 25, 1990, after a week of high winds and rain, the 50-year old Lacey V. Murrow Bridge (Lake Washington Floating Bridge) breaks apart and plunges into the mud beneath Lake Washington. Since...
On November 29, 1990, Seattle's pioneering hip-hop label, Nastymix Records, triumphantly hosts a party to celebrate its first five years of amazing success. In that brief period the company has emerge...