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#OnThisDay in 2014, the Super Bowl XLVIII victory parade for the Seattle Seahawks became the largest city gathering ever.
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#OnThisDay in 2014, the Super Bowl victory parade for the Seattle Seahawks became the largest city gathering ever.
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#OnThisDay in 1979, the Seattle SuperSonics won the NBA Championship.
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#OnThisDay in 1969, Led Zeppelin played at Seattle's Green Lake Aqua Theatre.
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#OnThisDay in 1954, Dick's Drive-In opened in Seattle.
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#OnThisDay in 1969, Interstate 5 was completed in Washington.
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#OnThisDay in 1940, the first automobile drove across the Lake Washington Floating Bridge.
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Eight years ago today, the Seattle Seahawks defeated the Denver Broncos 43-8 in Super Bowl XLVIII.
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#OnThisDay in 1979, the Seattle SuperSonics won the NBA Championship.
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#OnThisDay in 1993, @Nirvana performed the epic Live and Loud concert on Pier 48 in Seattle.
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#OnThisDay in 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans hockey team won the Stanley Cup.
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#OnThisDay in 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans won the Stanley Cup.
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#OnThisDay in 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed.
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#OnThisDay in 1999, Safeco Field opened.
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#OnThisDay in 1936, the University of Washington rowing crew won an Olympic gold medal.
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#OnThisDay in 1962, the Century 21 World's Fair opened in Seattle.
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10 years ago today, the Super Bowl XLVIII victory parade for the Seattle Seahawks became the largest city gathering ever. 🏈 🏈 🏈
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#OnThisDay in 2000, the Kingdome was imploded.
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#OnThisDay in 1961, Seattle residents staged a protest against the Interstate 5 Freeway.
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#OnThisDay in 1977, the Seattle Mariners played their first baseball game in Seattle.
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#OnThisDay in 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans won the Stanley Cup.
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#OnThisDay in 1889, Washington became a state.
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#OnThisDay in 1977, Rainier beer's colorful television ads were featured in The Seattle Times.
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#OnThisDay in 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed.
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#OnThisDay in 1969, the Seattle Pilots played their first home game at Sicks' Stadium.
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#OnThisDay in 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans won the Stanley Cup.
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#OnThisDay in 2000, the Kingdome was imploded.
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#OnThisDay in 1906, Ballard voted to annex to Seattle.
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50 years ago today, the Seattle SuperSonics played their first regular season game.
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#OnThisDay in 1911, Oregon and Washington Station (now Union Station) opened in Seattle.
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#OnThisDay in 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed.
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#OnThisDay in 1971: Will the Last Person Leaving Seattle Turn Out the Lights.
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#OnThisDay in 1890, Seattle's first professional baseball game was played.
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#OnThisDay in 1907, @Pike_Place Market opened in Seattle.
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#OnThisDay in 1966, the ferry Hyak was launched. Now retired, its horn lives on as the goal horn at Seattle Kraken hockey games.
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In 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans became the first US team to win the Stanley Cup. And now that Seattle has a new NHL team, it's time to bring the cup back home!
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#OnThisDay in 1977, Rainier beer's colorful television ads were featured in The Seattle Times.
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#OnThisDay in 1889, Washington was admitted as the 42nd state to the United States of America.
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#OnThisDay in 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans hockey team won the Stanley Cup.
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#OnThisDay in 1977, the Seattle Aquarium opened.
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#OnThisDay in 1962, Dr. Jonas Salk visited the Century 21 Exposition in Seattle and was honored at the United States Science Pavilion for his work in developing the polio vaccine.
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#OnThisDay in 1903, Chief Joseph attended a UW football game. "I saw a lot of white men almost fight today."
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#OnThisDay in 1990, the Lake Washington Floating Bridge broke apart and sank.
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#OnThisDay in 1930, Edward R. Murrow graduated from Washington State College. @WSUPullman
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#OnThisDay in 1792, explorer George Vancouver renamed the Salish Sea as "Puget's Sound" for naval officer Peter Puget.
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#OnThisDay in 1976, the Kingdome opened in Seattle to a crowd of 54,000.
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#OnThisDay in 1976, the Kingdome opened in Seattle to a crowd of 54,000.
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1851: Seattle's first Christmas.
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#OnThisDay in 1917, Seattle's Fremont Bridge opened to traffic.
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#OnThisDay in 1907, @Pike_Place Market opened in Seattle.
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#OnThisDay in 1962, the Century 21 World's Fair opened in Seattle.
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Two years ago today, the Seattle Sounders won their second MLS Cup before a record home crowd.
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#OnThisDay in 1936, the University of Washington rowing crew won an Olympic gold medal.
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#OnThisDay in 1892, the Washington Agricultural College (predecessor to @WSUPullman ) opened.
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#OnThisDay in 1992, the first Twin Peaks Festival was held in North Bend.
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#OnThisDay in 1910, the Republican Hill Climb between Capitol Hill and Cascade neighborhoods in Seattle was completed. Most of it was removed in the 1960s to make way for I-5.
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#OnThisDay in 1975, William Craven -- Washington's first African American mayor -- took office in Roslyn.
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#OnThisDay in 1970, King County voters rejected a rail transit plan and three other Forward Thrust bond proposals.
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#OnThisDay in 2009, Sounders FC made its Major League Soccer debut.
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#OnThisDay in 1969, Interstate 5 was completed in Washington.
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#OnThisDay in 1962, Belgian waffles made their American debut at the Seattle World's Fair.
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#OnThisDay in 1963, @REI employee Jim Whittaker became the first American to reach the Mount Everest summit.
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#OnThisDay in 1942, Bainbridge Island's Japanese American residents, the first to be incarcerated under Executive Order 9066, were removed from their homes.
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120 years ago today, the Snoqualmie Falls generators began producing electricity.
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#OnThisDay in 1969, Led Zeppelin played at Seattle's Green Lake Aqua Theatre.
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#OnThisDay in 1967, Interstate 5 was completed from Everett to Tacoma.
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#OnThisDay in 2009, Sounders FC made its Major League Soccer debut.
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#OnThisDay in 1976, the Kingdome opened in Seattle to a crowd of 54,000.
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#OnThisDay in 2008, the Seattle SuperSonics played their final home game.
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#OnThisDay in 1853, President Millard Fillmore signed a bill establishing Washington Territory.
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#OnThisDay in 2000, the Kingdome was imploded.
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#OnThisDay in 1966, the NBA awarded Seattle the franchise that created the SuperSonics.
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#OnThisDay in 1859, the Pig War erupted on San Juan Island between the US and Great Britain.
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#OnThisDay in 1938, the first Boeing 314 Clipper had its maiden flight from Elliott Bay.
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Nine years ago today, the Seattle Seahawks defeated the Denver Broncos 43-8 in Super Bowl XLVIII.
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#OnThisDay in 1989, KING-TV's "Almost Live!" ran an April Fools' prank that the Space Needle had collapsed, and quite a few people fell for it.
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#OnThisDay in 1979, the Seattle SuperSonics won the NBA Championship.
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#OnThisDay in 1989, KING-TV's "Almost Live!" ran an April Fools' prank that the Space Needle had collapsed, and quite a few people fell for it.
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#OnThisDay in 1930, Seattle's Denny Regrade was completed, 32 years after work began.
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Dawn Wells at UW, 1960
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RIP, Paul Allen. His impact on Seattle and the PNW was vast and he will be missed.
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#OnThisDay in 1899, the generators beneath Snoqualmie Falls began producing electricity. @TwinPeaksArchve
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#OnThisDay in 1955, Tex Johnston rolled a Boeing Dash-80 over Lake Washington.
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#OnThisDay in 1884, the Northern Pacific ran their first train from Tacoma to Seattle.
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#OnThisDay in 1999, Safeco Field, the Seattle Mariners' long-sought stadium, opened.
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#OnThisDay in 1964, Marlon Brando joined local Native Americans for a fish-in protest at the Puyallup River.
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Here at HistoryLink, we love it when synchronicity happens. #OnThisDay in 1995, the Seattle Mariners won their first playoff series with a dramatic comeback against the New York Yankees.
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#OnThisDay in 1995, Seattle voters rejected the Seattle Commons levy.
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#OnThisDay in 1954, Dick's Drive-In opened in Seattle.
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25 years ago today, Seattle voters rejected the Seattle Commons levy.
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#OnThisDay in 1990, the Lake Washington Floating Bridge broke apart and sank.
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10 years ago today, @SoundersFC made its Major League Soccer debut.
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#OnThisDay in 2007, Seattle got a Major League Soccer franchise that eventually resulted in @SoundersFC . .
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30 years ago today, the Lake Washington Floating Bridge broke apart and sank.
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#OnThisDay in 1930, Edward R. Murrow graduated from Washington State College. @WSUPullman .
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#OnThisDay in 1893, the first Great Northern Railway passenger train left Seattle for St. Paul, Minnesota.
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1965 - Sidney Poitier at UW filming "The Slender Thread," Sydney Pollack's first feature film.
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#OnThisDay in 1969, the Seattle Black Panther Party protested a gun-control bill in Olympia. #BlackHistoryMonth
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#OnThisDay in 1999, Safeco Field, the Seattle Mariners' long-sought stadium, opened.
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