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1859 The city of Olympia is incorporated in the state of Washington in the United States of America.
1889 President
Grover Cleveland
signs a bill admitting North Dakota
, South Dakota
, Montana
and Washington as U.S. state
s.
1889 Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state
.
1899 In Washington State, USA, Mount Rainier National Park is established.
1940 In Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion (it opened to traffic on July 1, 1940 as the third-longest suspension bridge
in the world).
1941 Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity
.
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.
1971 During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself Dan Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked, with US$200,000 in ransom money (he was never heard from again).
1974 U.S. District Court Judge George Boldt rules that Native American tribes in Washington State
are entitled to half of the legal salmon and steelhead catches, based on treaties signed by the tribes and the U.S. government.
1980 Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in damage.
1993 Washington State
executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging
(the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
2001 An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 hits the Nisqually Valley area of Washington. There is 1 reported death, an elderly woman who suffers a heart attack.
2003 A BSE
(mad cow disease) outbreak in Washington State
is announced. Several countries including Brazil
, Australia
and Taiwan
ban the import of beef from the United States of America
.
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