On Friday evening, October 15, 1993, the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) holds a grand opening for a photo exhibit celebrating the life work of Al Smith. Titled Jazz on the Spot: Photographs by A...
On November 2, 1993, Washington voters overwhelmingly approve the state's first "three-strikes" law and narrowly approve state spending limits while rejecting a tax rollback measure. King County vote...
On November 7, 1993, Group Health Cooperative and Virginia Mason Medical Center announce a "strategic alliance" between their two organizations. The move follows the passage of Washington's Health Ser...
On November 15, 1993, Kenneth F. Bunting (1948-2014) becomes managing editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He is the first African American to run a newsroom at any of Washingtonâ€&tra...
On November 20, 1993, President William J. Clinton convenes a "summit" with 13 leaders of Pacific Rim nations attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, or APEC, in Seattle. The histo...
On November 22, 1993, the Seattle City Council approves Community Preferred Reuse Plan for Sand Point. The ambitious and somewhat controversial plan covers 151 acres of the former naval base and inclu...
On November 30, 1993, the Tacoma City Council approves the Chinese Reconciliation Resolution (Resolution 32415) to make amends for the 1885 expulsion of the entire Chinese community in Tacoma by the m...
On December 13, 1993, in a decrepit warehouse on Pier 48 along Seattle's Elliott Bay waterfront, beloved Seattle grunge-rock band Nirvana wows a select audience with 18 stellar songs that encompass th...
On January 1, 1994, William H. Gates III, 38, co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, marries Melinda French, 29, a mid-level Microsoft executive, in a $1 million seaside ceremony on the Hawaiian island ...
On January 10, 1994, Democratic State Representative Helen Sommers (b. 1932) of Seattle's 36th District, is appointed chair of the House Appropriations Committee by Speaker Brian Ebersole (b. 1947). I...
On Tuesday, January 25, 1994, in the wake of the sudden death of Mayor Jack Hyde (1934-1994), Harold Moss (1929-2020) becomes the first African American mayor of Tacoma. Hyde had asked his close frien...
In 1994, Tacoma City Light taps the Wynoochee River in the Olympic Mountains for hydroelectricity. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a flood-control dam there in 1972. Tacoma invested $25 million...