1945 World War II ends

1945 Vance Orchard starts Glendale-Highline Gazette

1948 Jerry Robinson runs White Center News

1949 Seattle Trust & Savings building (now Key Bank) opens

1949 Seattle-Tacoma International Airport opens

1950 Seafair Festival begins

1953 Normandy Park becomes a city

1954 Brown vs. Board of Education

1958 First Miss Burien crowned

1958 Highline Medical Center opened as Burien General Hospital

1959 Des Moines becomes a city

1960 Des Moines Waterland festival begins

1961 Kennedy is elected president

1962 Worlds Fair comes to Seattle

1963 Highline Community College opens at Midway

1964 Beatlemania erupts

1965 Burien Post Office opens

1966 First Super Bowl

1967 Seattle Supersonics play first game

1969 Jimi Hendrix perfoms at Woodstock

1969 The New Burien Library opens

1969 Man walks on moon

1970 Des Moines Marina Opens

1971 First Starbucks opens

1977 The Seattle Mariners play first game

1977 Stars wars premiers

1978 First personal computer

1979 Des Moines Marina pier is build

1980 Reagan is elected President

1981 MTV goes on the air for the first time

1986 Bronze Pig statue unveiled at Pike Place Market

1989 The Robinson newspapers are sold to east-coast investors

1989 Berlin Wall falls

1990 SeaTac becomes a city

1991 Performing Arts Center opens

1992 Nirvana realeases Smells Like Teen Spirit

1993 Burien becomes a City

1996 City of Burien get acquires Seahurst Park

1997 Tukwila Community Center opens

1998 Robinson Newspapers puts out The Highline Times after nine years.

1999 Safeco Field opens

2000 Birth of Napster

2000 Kindome imploded

2001Nisqually Earthquake

2002 Euro becomes legal tender of Europe

2003 Grand Re-opening of 153rd street

2005 Burien Town Square approved

2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a governor

temp_date_for_import: 08/23/2005 12:00pm Author(s): GuestAugust 23, 2005