On September 21, 1992, Longacres racetrack in Renton closes after 59 years. The final race is run without commentary, allowing a breathless record crowd of 23,258 to listen unimpeded to the pounding o...
On October 4, 1992, Seattle's Hope Heart Institute dedicates a $450,000 remodeling project that transformed what was once an old frame house into a modern cardiovascular research center, with updated ...
On October 12, 1992, Edmond H. Fischer (b. 1920) and Edwin G. Krebs (b. 1918) of the University of Washington School of Medicine are named as recipients of the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their disco...
On November 3, 1992, the Seattle Port Commission approves Resolution 3125 to commence planning for a "third runway" at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The action follows a three-year "Flight Pla...
On November 3, 1992, Washington voters favor Democrats, giving Bill Clinton (b. 1946) the state's electoral votes for president and electing Mike Lowry (1939-2017) as governor and Patty Murray (b. 195...
On November 3, 1992, Velma Veloria is elected to the Washington State Legislature. She is the first Filipina elected to a state legislature in the continental United States. She will serve for 12 year...
On December 4, 1992, the prestigious journal Science publishes five papers on what is now known as the Seattle Fault Zone, a previously undescribed, several-mile-wide area of crustal weakness running ...
On January 5, 1993, just after midnight, Washington resumes the death penalty by hanging Westley Allan Dodd at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla. Dodd's execution is the first in the state since J...
On January 6, 1993, newly elected Republican state representative Ida Ballasiotes (1936-2014) files Initiative 593 with the Secretary of State. When Washington voters overwhelmingly pass the measure t...
In January and February 1993, food contamination by E. coli bacteria kills three children in Western Washington. More than 450 persons fall ill after consuming undercooked hamburger or being exposed t...
At 12:40 p.m. on January 17, 1993, demolition experts collapse the landmark American Smelter and Refining Company (ASARCO) smokestack as part of a Superfund toxic cleanup of the old copper smelter in ...
On January 20, 1993, an Inaugural Day storm with winds topping 94 mph ravages Puget Sound. Six people die and hundreds of thousands lose electric power for days. Only the Columbus Day storm of 1962 ex...
On January 26, 1993, Rosa Gourdine Franklin (b. 1927) is sworn in as Washington state’s first African American woman senator. Franklin has just completed two years of her first term as a State R...
On January 27, 1993, the state Transportation Commission names Sid Morrison (b. 1933) as Secretary of Transportation to replace retiring Secretary Duane Berentson (1928-2013). Morrison, a Zillah resid...
On February 1, 1993, the King County Library System (KCLS) opens a 15,000-square-foot library at 17105 Avondale Road NE in Woodinville in northeast King County. Although it isn't Woodinville's first l...
On February 28, 1993, the city of Burien incorporates. Residents had voted two to one in favor of incorporation on March 10, 1992. Burien becomes Washington's 22nd-largest city, behind Lynnwood, but ...
In March 1993, the Muckleshoot Indian tribe puts forth a plan for it to control the 151-acre surplussed naval property at Sand Point near Warren G. Magnuson Park.
On March 27, 1993, residents of Woodinville celebrate their incorporation as a city. The vote to incorporate, which occurred on May 19, 1992, was the third effort at incorporation in 11 years and aff...
On April 1, 1993, the Covington Library opens at 27100 164th Avenue SE in the city of Covington. One of the busiest libraries in the King County Library System, it will be expanded in 2008 by more tha...
On April 29, 1993, the Puget Sound Regional Council's General Assembly adopts Resolution A-93-03 amending the 1988 Regional Airport System Plan on the basis of a three-year Flight Plan study concluded...
On May 1, 1993, Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the United States, opens its first store in Washington in Omak (population 4,120). The 93,188-square-foot retail center on State Route 97 overlooking ...
On May 7, 1993, chimpanzee Washoe (1965-2007) and her family members, Loulis, Moja, Dar, and Tatu, move into the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute, their newly constructed home at Central W...
The Seattle Times reports on May 25, 1993, that pioneering computer-game company Sierra On-Line, Inc., owned and operated by Roberta (b. 1953) and Kenneth (b. 1954) Williams, will soon move its corpor...
On May 29, 1993, a farmers market opens in Seattle's University District neighborhood at the University Heights Community Center at the corner of NE 50th and University Way NE. The University District...