<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">----- Forwarded Message ----<br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "admin@historylink.org" <admin@historylink.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> kprasse@yahoo.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, January 13, 2011 3:43:38 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Your HistoryLink.org Update<br></font><br><span>This week at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.HistoryLink.org">http://www.HistoryLink.org</a>, Snohomish County celebrates a hundred and fifty years, we look back and remember Montesano's pioneers, and then we go to Forks when the town's
library was new, and we wish a happy birthday to our friends at ol' Wazzu, among other historical highlights.</span><br><br>History Cafe<br><br><span>On Thursday, January 20, from 7 to 8 p.m., the first of this year's History Cafe series -- sponsored by MOHAI, KCTS 9, Seattle Public Library, and HistoryLink -- will meet at Roy Street Coffee and Tea in Seattle to discuss the history of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Join in on the discussion with MOHAI's Helen Divjak and HistoryLink's Alan Stein. For more info, visit <a target="_blank" href="http://www.seattlehistory.org/plan_your_visit/calendar.php?id=168">http://www.seattlehistory.org/plan_your_visit/calendar.php?id=168</a>. </span><br><br>SnoCo150<br><br><span>As noted on our front page, this week Snohomish County celebrates its sesquicentennial. This Friday, January 14, at 10 a.m., cake, ice cream, coffee, and cocoa will be served at the Snohomish County Campus in Everett. The public is
invited bring something to commemorate the county's 150 Years for entry into a time capsule. Find out more at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.snoco150.net/">http://www.snoco150.net/</a>. </span><br><br>Arts and Heritage Day<br><br><span>For years, the Washington Museum Association has sponsored Museum Day and, likewise, the Washington State Arts Alliance (WSAA) has organized Arts Day in Olympia. In 2011, the two statewide organizations are joining forces to coordinate Arts & Heritage Day on February 2, to demonstrate the strength of the state's cultural industries and to advocate for investment in the cultural economy in the current legislative session. To learn more visit <a target="_blank" href="http://wsaa.qwestoffice.net/arts_day.htm">http://wsaa.qwestoffice.net/arts_day.htm</a>. </span><br><br>Ground Control<br><br><span>This week our Education Team features namesakes, with a look at two Washington schools named for astronauts Dick Scobee
and Michael Anderson. Learn more at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/edu">http://www.historylink.org/edu</a>.</span><br><br>Early Warning<br><br>In our next update, <a target="_blank" href="http://HistoryLink.org">HistoryLink.org</a> runs to the blockhouse, goes down with the ship, sees red, and crosses some bridges, among other historic events. <br><br>Earthquake of enormous magnitude hits the Pacific Northwest coast on January 26, 1700.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5098">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5098</a></span><br><br>Bishop Augustine Blanchet dedicates Washington's original St. James Cathedral at Fort Vancouver on January 23, 1851.<br><span><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9126">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9126</a></span><br><br>Native Americans attack Seattle on January 26, 1856.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5208">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5208</a></span><br><br>Washington Territorial Legislature incorporates the City of Vancouver on January 23, 1857.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9115">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9115</a></span><br><br>Ferguson County is established on January 23, 1863.<br><span><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7486">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7486</a></span><br><br>The Walla Walla Library Association is incorporated on January 20, 1865.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8729">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8729</a></span><br><br>Yakima County is established on January 21, 1865.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7487">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7487</a></span><br><br>The SS Valencia wrecks on Vancouver Island with a loss of 136 lives on January 22, 1906.<br><span><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7381">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7381</a></span><br><br>Billy Sunday preaches to 10,000 in Spokane on January 24, 1909.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5413">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5413</a></span><br><br>The Liberty Arch Monument gate at Camp Lewis is completed on January 26, 1918.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9250">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9250</a></span><br><br>Plot to sink the MV Hiye Maru in Elliott Bay fails on January 20, 1938.<br><span><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7569">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7569</a></span><br><br>State Representative criticizes UW for hiring Marxist Harold Laski as visiting lecturer on January 23, 1939.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2083">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2083</a></span><br><br>University of Washington sees Red and fires three faculty members on January 22, 1949.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1482">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1482</a></span><br><br>Seattle University Chieftains, led by Johnny and Eddie O'Brien, defeat Harlem Globetrotters in a Seattle exhibition game on January 21, 1952.<br><span><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3675">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3675</a></span><br><br>Former state representative John Goldmark wins $40,000 (later overturned) in a libel case in Okanogan County against four individuals and a newspaper that had called him a Communist "tool," on January 22, 1964.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9485">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9485</a></span><br><br>FBI arrests right-wing Minutemen on January 26, 1968, for conspiring to blow up Redmond City Hall and rob four banks.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1464">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1464</a></span><br><br>Edwin Pratt is murdered outside of his
Shoreline home on January 26, 1969.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4142">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4142</a></span><br><br>Supreme Court affirms limited right to abortion in Roe v. Wade case, superseding Washington state law, on January 22, 1973.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4135">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4135</a></span><br><br>Love Israel Family gives up all its Seattle properties in an out-of-court settlement on January 26, 1984.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9322">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9322</a></span><br><br>Serial killer Ted Bundy dies in the electric chair in Florida on January 24,
1989.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2637">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2637</a></span><br><br>Inaugural Day storm ravages Puget Sound on January 20, 1993.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2886">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2886</a></span><br><br>Cable-stayed bridge over Tacoma's Thea Foss Waterway opens on January 22, 1997.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5150">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5150</a></span><br><br>Tacoma's Blair Bridge is closed and demolition begins on January 23, 1997.<br><span><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8638">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8638</a></span><br><br>Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park opens to the public on January 20-21, 2007.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8130">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8130</a></span><br><br>Enjoy,<br><br>Marie McCaffrey, Alan Stein, and the <a href="http://www.HistoryLink.org" target="_blank">http://www.HistoryLink.org</a> Gang<br><br><br><br><br><span>If you would like to change your email settings or cancel your subscription, go to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.historylink.org/Index.cfm?DisplayPage=subscriber/remove.cfm&email=kprasse@yahoo.com">http://www.historylink.org/Index.cfm?DisplayPage=subscriber/remove.cfm&email=kprasse@yahoo.com</a>
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