Post by Blake Sterling Jr. on Sept 1, 2014 0:57:04 GMT -8
This happened in Seattle:
1907
Children's Hospital opens.
John McLean builds world's first gasoline service station at Holgate Street and Western Avenue.
Ballard, West Seattle, Columbia City and Rainier Beach annexed.
Aug. 17: Pike Place Market opens.
Aug. 28: James Casey, 19, and Claude Ryan start American Messenger, which becomes United Parcel Service.
1909
June 1: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens on the site now occupied by the UW.
1910
Seattle's population is 237,194.
Laurelhurst and Georgetown annexed.
Nov. 8: Washington state grants women the right to vote. In 1854, a proposal by Arthur Denny to enfranchise women had failed by one vote in the territorial legislature. Seattle women won the right to vote in 1883, but that was ruled unconstitutional by the Territorial Court in 1887.
1911
Feb. 7, Mayor Hiram Gill is recalled. Gill sought to preside over a city tolerant of gambling and prostitution.
Sept. 5: Port of Seattle established.
May 20: Union Station opens to serve the Union Pacific railroad.
1913
July 17: A confrontation between sailors and an Industrial Workers of the World speaker during Seattle's Potlatch Days festival leads to two days of rioting and fistfights. No deaths are reported, but injuries and property damages are extensive.
photo
1913 First automobile ferry, the Leschi, crosses Lake Washington. Dec. 27: The Leschi, the first automobile ferry, makes its first trip across Lake Washington.
1914
The Cornish School, specializing in the arts, is founded.
July 4: Smith Tower opens.
1916
June 1: Longshoremen strike in major ports along the West Coast, including Seattle. The strike is marred by violence and property destruction and is not settled until October.
1917
March 26: The Seattle Metropolitans hockey team wins the Stanley Cup.
1917
May 8: Lake Washington Ship Canal, including the Hiram Chittenden Locks, is completed, connecting Shilshole Bay, Lake Union and Lake Washington.
May 9: Boeing Airplane established.
1918-1919
A flu epidemic kills 1,600 in Seattle.
1919
Eddie Bauer goes into business.
Feb. 6: First general strike in the nation's history begins in Seattle when 60,000 workers stay home. The strike ends Feb. 11.
1920
Seattle's population is 315,312.
1920
May: The nation's first sanitary landfill is established on Queen Anne Hill.
Dec. 27: The Hearst company takes over the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
1924
Dec. 6: The Olympic Hotel opens.
1926
Don Ibsen, a senior at Roosevelt High School, screws a pair of tennis shoes onto a cedar board and becomes one of the co-inventors of water-skiing.
Fisher's Blend Station corporation is formed, and KOMO-AM radio station goes on the air.
May 9: Bertha Landes is elected mayor, first woman mayor in any major U.S. city.
1927
Jan. 28: Boeing secures the Chicago-San Francisco air-mail contract and forms United Air Lines.
1928
Thomas Edison flips a switch in West Orange, N.J., and turns on Seattle's new electric street-lighting system.
Burton and Florence Bean James start the Seattle Repertory Playhouse.
July 26: Boeing Field opens.
Dec. 30: The Interurban to Tacoma ends service.
1930
Seattle's population is 365,583.
Dec. 10: The Denny Regrade is completed. Begun in 1898, this was a massive project to level Denny Hill and surrounding area, one of several similar works around the city.
1932
Feb. 27: The Aurora Bridge is dedicated, the first major highway bridge built in Seattle.
1933
June 23: Seattle Art Museum opens in Volunteer Park.
1934
The Washington Park Arboretum is established.
May 9: A West Coast waterfront strike, in which several people are killed, begins. It lasts until July 31. The International Longshoreman's Association wins recognition in Seattle.
1936
Aug. 19: Newsroom members of the American Newspaper Guild strike the Post-Intelligencer.
1938
July 29: Ivar Haglund opens a fish-and-chips stand at Pier 54. This expands into Ivar's Acres of Clams and an empire of seafood eateries.
1939
Lloyd and Mary Anderson form a buying co-op in Seattle so members can find obscure climbing equipment. This becomes REI (Recreational Equipment Incorporated).
Dec. 2: Yesler Terrace becomes the first racially integrated public housing in United States.
1940
Seattle's population is 368,302.
June 5: The Lake Washington Floating Bridge opens, connecting Seattle with Mercer Island and the Eastside.
1942
photo
1942 Japanese Americans ordered out of Seattle. April 21: Japanese Americans are ordered to evacuate Seattle. More than 12,000 U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry from King County were held in inland "relocation centers" during World War II.
1944
Aug. 14: African-American soldiers riot at Fort Lawton and lynch an Italian prisoner of war. Twenty-three men are convicted and 13 acquitted in the riot, attributed to racial tension based on unfair treatment of black soldiers.
1945
Dec. 22: Group Health Cooperative formed.
1907
Children's Hospital opens.
John McLean builds world's first gasoline service station at Holgate Street and Western Avenue.
Ballard, West Seattle, Columbia City and Rainier Beach annexed.
Aug. 17: Pike Place Market opens.
Aug. 28: James Casey, 19, and Claude Ryan start American Messenger, which becomes United Parcel Service.
1909
June 1: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens on the site now occupied by the UW.
1910
Seattle's population is 237,194.
Laurelhurst and Georgetown annexed.
Nov. 8: Washington state grants women the right to vote. In 1854, a proposal by Arthur Denny to enfranchise women had failed by one vote in the territorial legislature. Seattle women won the right to vote in 1883, but that was ruled unconstitutional by the Territorial Court in 1887.
1911
Feb. 7, Mayor Hiram Gill is recalled. Gill sought to preside over a city tolerant of gambling and prostitution.
Sept. 5: Port of Seattle established.
May 20: Union Station opens to serve the Union Pacific railroad.
1913
July 17: A confrontation between sailors and an Industrial Workers of the World speaker during Seattle's Potlatch Days festival leads to two days of rioting and fistfights. No deaths are reported, but injuries and property damages are extensive.
photo
1913 First automobile ferry, the Leschi, crosses Lake Washington. Dec. 27: The Leschi, the first automobile ferry, makes its first trip across Lake Washington.
1914
The Cornish School, specializing in the arts, is founded.
July 4: Smith Tower opens.
1916
June 1: Longshoremen strike in major ports along the West Coast, including Seattle. The strike is marred by violence and property destruction and is not settled until October.
1917
March 26: The Seattle Metropolitans hockey team wins the Stanley Cup.
1917
May 8: Lake Washington Ship Canal, including the Hiram Chittenden Locks, is completed, connecting Shilshole Bay, Lake Union and Lake Washington.
May 9: Boeing Airplane established.
1918-1919
A flu epidemic kills 1,600 in Seattle.
1919
Eddie Bauer goes into business.
Feb. 6: First general strike in the nation's history begins in Seattle when 60,000 workers stay home. The strike ends Feb. 11.
1920
Seattle's population is 315,312.
1920
May: The nation's first sanitary landfill is established on Queen Anne Hill.
Dec. 27: The Hearst company takes over the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
1924
Dec. 6: The Olympic Hotel opens.
1926
Don Ibsen, a senior at Roosevelt High School, screws a pair of tennis shoes onto a cedar board and becomes one of the co-inventors of water-skiing.
Fisher's Blend Station corporation is formed, and KOMO-AM radio station goes on the air.
May 9: Bertha Landes is elected mayor, first woman mayor in any major U.S. city.
1927
Jan. 28: Boeing secures the Chicago-San Francisco air-mail contract and forms United Air Lines.
1928
Thomas Edison flips a switch in West Orange, N.J., and turns on Seattle's new electric street-lighting system.
Burton and Florence Bean James start the Seattle Repertory Playhouse.
July 26: Boeing Field opens.
Dec. 30: The Interurban to Tacoma ends service.
1930
Seattle's population is 365,583.
Dec. 10: The Denny Regrade is completed. Begun in 1898, this was a massive project to level Denny Hill and surrounding area, one of several similar works around the city.
1932
Feb. 27: The Aurora Bridge is dedicated, the first major highway bridge built in Seattle.
1933
June 23: Seattle Art Museum opens in Volunteer Park.
1934
The Washington Park Arboretum is established.
May 9: A West Coast waterfront strike, in which several people are killed, begins. It lasts until July 31. The International Longshoreman's Association wins recognition in Seattle.
1936
Aug. 19: Newsroom members of the American Newspaper Guild strike the Post-Intelligencer.
1938
July 29: Ivar Haglund opens a fish-and-chips stand at Pier 54. This expands into Ivar's Acres of Clams and an empire of seafood eateries.
1939
Lloyd and Mary Anderson form a buying co-op in Seattle so members can find obscure climbing equipment. This becomes REI (Recreational Equipment Incorporated).
Dec. 2: Yesler Terrace becomes the first racially integrated public housing in United States.
1940
Seattle's population is 368,302.
June 5: The Lake Washington Floating Bridge opens, connecting Seattle with Mercer Island and the Eastside.
1942
photo
1942 Japanese Americans ordered out of Seattle. April 21: Japanese Americans are ordered to evacuate Seattle. More than 12,000 U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry from King County were held in inland "relocation centers" during World War II.
1944
Aug. 14: African-American soldiers riot at Fort Lawton and lynch an Italian prisoner of war. Twenty-three men are convicted and 13 acquitted in the riot, attributed to racial tension based on unfair treatment of black soldiers.
1945
Dec. 22: Group Health Cooperative formed.