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Seattle’s Light-Rail Era Begins
On July 18, 2009, Seattle's light-rail era begins as Sound Transit's Link light-rail trains carry their first passengers between downtown Seattle and Tukwila in south...
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Hitt’s Fireworks: Lighting Up the Skies from Seattle’s Columbia City 
For more than 50 years, some of the world’s most spectacular fireworks came from a collection of sheds on a hill in Columbia City, home...
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Paradise Inn on Mount Rainier Opens on July 1, 1917
On July 1, 1917, a rustic and romantic park hotel, the Paradise Inn, located in Mount Rainier's beautiful Paradise Valley, holds its grand opening...
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Transcontinental Auto Race Ends in Seattle on June 23, 1909
On the day the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opened in Seattle, six cars left New York in a transcontinental auto race with the first arriving in Seattle...
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Boeing-Built Airplane, the B&W, Makes its Maiden Flight from Seattle’s Lake Union on June 15, 1916
On June 15, 1916, William Boeing piloted the B&W Bluebill, the first plane he helped build, into the air above Lake Union...
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A Day at the Races
On June 11, 1977, Seattle Slew won horseracing's coveted Triple Crown after placing first in that year's Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes...
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Dr. Jonas Salk Visits Century 21 Exposition
Governor Albert Rosellini proclaimed June 4, 1962, Jonas Salk Day, the same day Salk addressed scientists and fairgoers at the Seattle World's Fair...
Cartoon of four elephants wandering through a residential neighborhood
Truck Overturns, Spilling Puzzled Elephants in Seattle’s Phinney Ridge Neighborhood on May 23, 1958
The elephants were walked down the sidewalk in single file, back to their quarters at the Woodland Park Zoo...

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