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.