On May 23, 1991, Forks businesses except city offices and banks close as residents travel en masse to Olympia to take part in a rally protesting critical habitat protections for the northern spotted o...
On May 23, 1991, the Seattle League of Women Voters honors King County Councilwoman Lois North (b. 1921) as its Woman of the Year and King County Assessor Ruthe Ridder (b. 1929) with its Carrie Chapma...
On July 20, 1991, Earl Robinson (1910-1991) dies in an automobile accident on Southwest Admiral Way in West Seattle. Seattle-born Earl Robinson was a well-known composer, songwriter, and musician reme...
On August 20, 1991, nearly 20 all-girl rock groups, female-led bands, and female solo artists perform during an evening of punk and alternative rock music at Olympia’s Capitol Theater. It is an ...
On the evening of Friday the 13th in September 1991, the funky little counter-cultural and gay friendly nightclub Re-bar at 1114 Howell Street in downtown Seattle is the site of a music-business party...
In September 1991, the founders of Seattle's newest biotechnology firm, Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI), file incorporation documents with the office of the Washington secretary of state. The company (a...
On September 23, 1991, The Stranger, a weekly newspaper, begins publication. It is billed as an alternative to other alternative papers such as The Weekly and The Rocket. It is distributed free of cha...
On September 25, 1991, last-second negotiations to save the Music Hall Theatre from demolition officially come up short. The announcement dooms the once-proud theater, the last of the pre-Depression m...
On September 28, 1991, Hammering Man, a 48-foot-tall metal sculpture created by Jonathan Borofsky for the entrance to the new Seattle Art Museum, falls and is damaged. The 22,000-pound steel and alumi...
On September 28, 1991, the City of Enumclaw's new public library building is dedicated. The project was made possible when city voters approved a local library bond issue after two earlier proposals f...
On October 4, 1991, a Snohomish County Superior Court judge sentences James Arthur Schmitt, who had pled guilty to a series of arson fires in Mountlake Terrace, to 20 years in prison -- far beyond the...
On October 6, 1991, Washington native Wade Leslie takes eight seconds to make Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association history, scoring the first – and as of 2023, the only – perfect, 100-poi...
On October 12, 1991, the new $3.2 million Kent Regional Library (as it is then known) is formally dedicated. It is a joint project of the city of Kent and the King County Library System (KCLS). The pr...
On October 15, 1991, Bankruptcy Court Judge Frank D. Howard approves a settlement agreement that ends two years of controversy and litigation over who owns and controls 11 historic buildings that make...
On Wednesday, October 16, 1991, wildland fires kill two people and destroy 114 homes. The fires will burn for six days before they are contained. The 92 fires will be called the Spokane Firestorm and ...
On November 5, 1991, Washington voters narrowly approve Initiative 120, the Reproductive Privacy Act, codifying the tenets of the United States Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in state law a...
On November 7, 1991, the residents of Bainbridge Island vote to change the name of their city from Winslow to Bainbridge Island in response to Winslow's annexation of the entire island in 1990.
On November 16, 1991, the City of Seattle dedicates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park at S Waller Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Rainier Valley. The park features a fountain and sculp...
On December 5, 1991, the Seattle Art Museum opens downtown at 1st Avenue and University Street. The $64 million structure has 155,000 square feet, four times the space of the old museum at Volunteer P...
On January 23, 1992, a group of local investors led by a Japanese billionaire announces plans to buy the Seattle Mariners, which would thwart a plan to move the team to Florida. Calling itself the Bas...
On January 23, 1992, former Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors head coach George Karl is hired to be the SuperSonics head coach. Karl's hiring comes on the heels of the club firing K. C. Jo...
On February 1, 1992, a group of skinheads and white supremacists with ties to the Aryan Nations discuss a plan to firebomb the Temple Beth Shalom in Spokane and carry out assassinations. An FBI inform...
On February 1, 1992, a dedication ceremony is held for what is then the largest library in the King County Library System (KCLS), at 25,000 square feet. The new library, located at 34200 1st Way S in ...
On February 13, 1992, seven environmental groups file a lawsuit seeking to block a U.S. Forest Service plan to log 123 million board feet of timber annually in the Colville National Forest. This is a ...