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...