On April 1, 1994, Snohomish County residents Helen Thayer (b. 1937) and her husband Bill Thayer (b. 1926) set out for a year in the Arctic Circle, where they plan to study the behavior of arctic gray ...
On April 5, 1994, Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) commits suicide at his home at 171 Lake Washington Boulevard in Seattle. His body is not found until April 8, when it is discovered by an electrician. The 27-...
On April 11, 1994, the North Bend Library reopens in a new 9,600-square-foot building located at 115 E 4th Street. The new facility replaces a building on the same block originally built in 1958 and e...
On April 14, 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton (b. 1946) appoints Robert Santos (1934-2016), Filipino American community activist, as the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary's representative...
On April 16, 1994, Group Health Cooperative members debate a resolution recognizing violence as a public health issue, and the majority vote to pursue an aggressive campaign to combat violence. The p...
On May 27, 1994, the State of Washington conducts its last execution by hanging. Charles Rodman Campbell, age 39, is put to death for the 1982 murders of two women and a child. Campbell has a choice b...
On June 10, 1994, Mary Maxwell Gates, mother of Microsoft co-founder William H. Gates III and a woman widely admired for her civic activism, dies of breast cancer at age 64. Gates was the first female...
On June 20, 1994, Dean A. Mellberg (1974-1994), age 20, enters the Fairchild Air Force Base hospital annex with a MAK-90 assault rifle and shoots and kills Major Thomas E. Brigham, psychiatrist, and C...
On June 24, 1994, a giant U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane County, while rehearsing maneuvers for an air show, killing four airmen. The accident occurs ...
On July 2, 1994, the American Hop Museum opens in Toppenish. The building, originally a creamery, dates to 1917, by which time hop growing had become big business in the Yakima Valley. Today Washingto...
On July 16, 1994, the Skykomish Library in northeastern King County celebrates two important milestones: the library's move to a new location the previous year and the upcoming 50th anniversary of the...
On July 19, 1994, the new Algona-Pacific Library, part of the King County Library System (KCLS), opens at 255 Ellingson Road in Pacific. The two small South King County cities of Pacific and Algona pr...