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1792 Mt. Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Samuel Hood
by Lt. William E. Broughton, who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1851 The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts
, or Portland, Maine, with Portland
winning.
1859 Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state
.
1919 February 25 Oregon places a 1 cent per US gallon (26 Ē/L) tax on gasoline
, becoming the first U.S. state
to levy a gasoline tax.
1927 Marian Parker, 12, is kidnapped in Los Angeles. Her dismembered body is found on December 19 prompting the largest manhunt to date on the West Coast for her killer, William Edward Hickman, who is arrested on December 22 in Oregon.
1933 Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn
. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (971 kmē).
1945 The first geothermal milk pasteurization occurs in Klamath Falls, Oregon, USA.
1951 July 1 - In New Mexico
, Arizona
, California
, Oregon, Washington
, and British Columbia
, thousands of hectares (many square miles) of forests were destroyed in fires.
1952 Roman Catholic Diocese of Baker formed in Eastern Oregon.
1957 Floodgates of The Dalles Dam are closed inundating Celilo Falls and ancient Indian fisheries along the Columbia River
in Oregon.
1964 Nelson Rockefeller
defeats Barry Goldwater
in the Oregon Republican primary, slowing but not stalling Goldwater's drive toward the nomination.
2002 A lighting strike sets off the Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California
, which is left to burn 499,570 acres (2,022 kmē).
2002 The Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California
, which burned 499,570 acres (2,022 kmē), is finally contained.
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