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2020 - January 21: Washington reports the United States' first case of COVID-19. Washington would record the nation's first death from the disease the following month. 2021 - June & July: The 2021 Western North America heat wave kills 91 people in Washington, making it the state's second deadliest natural disaster on record. [26]
The Sentinel was born out of the events of the Armistice Day Riot on November 11, 1919, in Centralia, Washington. The statue is a memorial to four slain members of the American Legion. [2] [3] [4] Due to the differing versions of events of that day, the Sentinel monument has been both a point of pride and divisiveness since its dedication in ...
The official History of the Washington State Legislature states "As had been the case in 1882, in Thurston County, Democrats and anti-administration Republicans joined to form the People’s Party". [13] However a Washington local newspaper in 1865 listed the People's Party as one of the main competing parties in an election. [17]
Watch a live view of the Capitol on Monday (6 January) as Washington braces for a snow storm from the east with several US states declaring an emergency. An arctic blast is battering the southern ...
Historical Timeline of Events Leading to the formation of Washington State Archived February 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, from Washington State University; Early Washington Maps, more than 925 maps hosted by WSU "The Long Wait for Statehood, Why it took Washington 36 years and Idaho 26 years to achieve their goals", Columbia: Fall 1988; Vol ...
Current events; Random article; ... Timeline of Washington history may refer to: Timeline of Washington (state) history; Timeline of Washington, D.C.
The Centralia Tragedy, also known as the Centralia Conspiracy [2] and the Armistice Day Riot, [3] [4] was a violent and bloody incident that occurred in Centralia, Washington, on November 11, 1919, during a parade celebrating the first anniversary of Armistice Day.
The Washington County Historical Society was organized during a meeting in this building, the original site of the Washington County Free Library, at 21 Summit Ave. in Hagerstown.