This week http://www.HistoryLink.org goes to the fair and has lots of fun, heads to the mall where shopping is done, takes a look back at some of our domes, and remembers a plane crash that demolished some homes, among other historical highlights.
Give Big
Mark your calendars for May 2, when the Seattle Foundation holds its one-day GiveBIG campaign to help out local nonprofits. On that day, any money donated to a specific organization (such as HistoryLink) will be “stretched” by the Foundation from a pool of matching funds. This campaign was very successful for HistoryLink last year and we hope it will be again this year. To learn more about GiveBIG visit http://www.seattlefoundation.org/GivingCenter/GiveBIG/Pages/Default.aspx. And we urge you to donate to HistoryLink that day, so be sure to bookmark our donation page at http://www.seattlefoundation.org/npos/Pages/HistoryLink.aspx.
Go See
As part of the 1962 World’s Fair anniversary festivities, the Museum of History and Industry has a new exhibit opening at Seattle Center that showcases the story of the fair as told by its colorful artifacts. This exhibit is curated by HistoryLink staff historians Paula Becker and Alan Stein, and we’d like to thank MOHAI for giving us the opportunity to help create what should be a fun experience for visitors to Seattle Center. Beginning on April 21, you can see the exhibit in the International Fountain Pavilion — located between the fountain and Key Arena — where it will be on display until October 21.
Early Warning
In our next update, HistoryLink.org hears news of a civil war, hops on the interurban, feels a tremor, and drops a piano, among other historic events.
Captains Robert Gray and George Vancouver meet off the Washington coast on April 28 or 29, 1792.
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Schuyler and Eliza Saunders settle at future site of Chehalis on May 1, 1850.
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Charles Terry homesteads site of Alki business district on May 1, 1852.
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Steamer Cortez reaches Portland on April 29, 1861, with news of the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter.
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Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Colonel George Wright receives orders on May 2, 1861, to send soldiers from Fort Vancouver to San Francisco.
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Mary Low Sinclair arrives in Cadyville (future Snohomish City) on May 1, 1865.
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John Olmsted arrives in Seattle to design city parks on April 30, 1903.
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Interurban rail service between Everett and Seattle begins on April 30, 1910.
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Two passengers die in an interurban streetcar accident in Rainier Valley on April 30, 1910.
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A bomb explosion fatally injures Spokane pioneer aviator Major John T. Fancher during an air show in East Wenatchee on April 29, 1928.
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John Cage debuts his “prepared piano” in Seattle on April 28, 1940.
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Seattle opens Service Men’s Club on May 1, 1941.
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Salishan Housing Project in Tacoma opens for war workers on May 1, 1943.
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Earthquake hits Puget Sound area on April 29, 1945.
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Two inmates kill employee Benjamin Marshall in an attempted escape from the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe on April 26, 1951.
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PONCHO holds inaugural fundraising auction, to benefit Seattle Symphony, on April 27, 1963.
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Jim Whittaker, REI sales manager, becomes first American to reach Mount Everest summit on May 1, 1963.
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Earthquake rattles Western Washington on April 29, 1965.
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Goldfish survives bizarre earthquake experience on April 29, 1965.
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Piano dropped from helicopter in Duvall and thousands turn out to see it on April 28, 1968.
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Weeks of protests erupt in Seattle beginning on May 1, 1970, against U. S. entry into Cambodia and to protest the killing of four Kent State students.
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Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline begins on April 29, 1974.
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Seattle’s Crocodile Cafe & Live Bait Lounge opens its grungy doors for business on April 30, 1991.
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Helen and Bill Thayer begin a 1,600-mile walk across the Gobi Desert on May 1, 2001.
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Enjoy,
Marie McCaffrey, Alan Stein, and the http://www.HistoryLink.org Gang
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