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Oregon is about 1/2 the size of
Spain and about the same size as the United Kingdom.
(SSFC, 10/9/05, Par p.27)
400 Million Subduction of the
Pacific plate under the American continent formed the Kalmiopsis
wilderness in southeastern Oregon.
(SFEC, 6/20/99, p.T8)
208Mil BC-142Mil BC The reptile called a
Thalattosuchian roamed a tropical environment in Asia about this time.
The amphibious creature represents an early milestone in evolutionary
history, marking a transition during which these reptiles moved from
being semi-aquatic to wholly ocean species. Scientists In 2007
uncovered the remains of the six- to eight-foot-long reptile in
Jurassic rock on private property in the Snowshoe Formation of the Izee
Terrane, a rock formation in Oregon. The rock-entombed animal migrated
eastward via continental drift.
(www.livescience.com/animalworld/070321_jurassic_croc.html)
40,000BC-12,000BC A great river of ice formed in
Oregon’s Wallowa Valley. The moraines around Wallowa Lake remained
after the glacier melted.
(SSFC, 7/9/06, p.G4)
15000BC-13000BC During the last Ice Age dams of
glacial meltwater repeatedly failed and eroded land in southeastern
Washington state and Oregon. This exposed petrified logs in what later
became Gingko Petrified Forest State Park. An ice dam, which blocked
the Clark Fork River in Montana and created lake Missoula, broke at
least 40 times and caused cataclysmic floods. One Missoula flood left
Portland under 400 feet of water.
(CW, Fall ‘03, p.20)(SSFC, 9/12/04, p.D9)
12300BC In 2008 scientists reported that fossilized
human feces found in 8 caves near Paisley, Ore., dated to about this
time. The coprolites contained DNA with characteristics matching those
of living Amerindians.
(SFC, 4/4/08, p.A4)(Econ, 4/5/08, p.84)
5000BC Mt. Mazama in what is now Oregon blew up about
this time and left what is now called Crater Lake.
(SFEC, 7/27/97, Z1 p.7)(SFC, 10/26/06, p.B8)
c5CE In 2005 seismologists
estimated that Oregon’s South Sister volcano probably erupted about
this time.
(Reuters, 9/9/05)
1700 Jan 26, A magnitude 9.0
earthquake shook Northern California, Oregon, Washington and British
Colombia. It triggered tsunami that damages villages in Japan.
(AP, 2/27/10)
1778 Mar 7, Capt. James Cook 1st
sighted the Oregon coast and named Perpetua Cape in honor of St.
Perpetua’s Day.
(SSFC, 9/21/08, p.E7)
1784 Oct 19, John McLoughlin,
Hudson's Bay Co. pioneer in Oregon Country, was born.
(MC, 10/19/01)
1805 Nov 7, Lewis and Clark
reached the estuary of the Columbia River.
(www.lewisandclarktrail.com/section4/wacities/chinook/1805history1.htm)
1805 Nov 18, The Lewis and Clark
expedition reached the Pacific Ocean.
(www.lewisandclarktrail.com/section4/wacities/chinook/1805history1.htm)
1806 Jan 8, Lewis & Clark
found the skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon.
(MC, 1/8/02)
1810 Jun 23, John Jacob Astor
(1763-1848) organized the Pacific Fur Co. in Astoria, Oregon.
(MC, 6/23/02)
1819 Feb 22, Spain signed the
Adams-Onis Treaty with the United States ceding eastern Florida.
Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John
Quincy Adams signed the Florida Purchase Treaty, in which Spain agrees
to cede the remainder of its old province of Florida. Spain renounced
claims to Oregon Country. [see 1821]
(AP, 2/22/99)(HN, 2/22/99)
1836 Sep 1, Protestant missionary
Dr. Marcus Whitman led a party to Oregon. His wife, Narcissa, was one
of the first white women to travel the Oregon Trail.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1841-1869 Approximately 400,000 settlers crossed the
American West on the Oregon Trail during this period. The influx of
settlers began after legendary mountainmen Thomas Fitzpatrick and Joe
Meek guided a small band of settlers out of Independence, Missouri, in
1841, heading west toward the Oregon Territory, 2,000 miles distant.
The route they used, pieced together from Indian and trapper paths,
would become known as the Oregon Trail. By the time the
transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, some 400,000 settlers
had traveled west on the Oregon Trail.
(HNQ, 4/18/99)
1843 May 22, The 1st wagon train
with over 1000 people departed Independence, Missouri for Oregon. Known
as the "Great Emigration," the expedition came two years after the
first modest party of settlers made the long, overland journey to
Oregon.
(MC, 5/22/02)
1845 Emigrants, led by trapper
Stephen Meek, took a disastrous shortcut from the Oregon Trail. Stephen
H. L. Meek, trapper, mountain man and younger brother of famed Oregon
pioneer Joseph Meek, led a group heading out to the Oregon Territory.
However, by the time they reached Fort Laramie, Meek was told his
services were no longer needed. He rode on ahead, speaking to the
groups he found along the way, telling of a new route to the
settlements in the Willamette Valley. It was shorter, he told them, and
easier. For five dollars per wagon, he would guide them. By the time he
reached Fort Boise on the Snake River, he’d managed to persuade around
200 families to take his cutoff. In 1967 Keith Clark and Lowell Tiller
authored: “Terrible Trail: The Meek Cutoff, 1845” (Caxton Printers,
Caldwell, Idaho, 1967).
(HNQ, 5/20/01)
1846 Feb 5, The first Pacific
Coast newspaper, Oregon Spectator, was published.
(HN, 2/5/99)
1846 Jun 15, The United States and
Britain signed a treaty settling a boundary dispute between Canada and
the United States in the Pacific Northwest at the 49th parallel. Great
Britain and the U.S. agreed on a joint occupation of Oregon Territory.
President Polk agreed to a compromise border along the 49th parallel.
The debate over the northwestern border of the United States. The
campaign slogan "54-40 or fight" referred to the debate over the
northwestern border of the United States. The slogan "54-40 or fight"
refers to the north latitude degree and minute where many Americans
wanted to place the border between the U.S. and then Great Britain in
the Pacific Northwest.
(AP, 6/15/97)(HN, 6/15/98)(SFC, 1/25/99, p.A3)(HNQ,
3/28/00)
1846 The Applegate Trail across
northwest Nevada and northeast California was blazed as a southern
approach to Oregon's Willamette Valley.
(SFEC, 1/23/00, p.T7)
1848 Aug 14, The Oregon Territory
was established.
(AP, 8/14/97)
1848 One third of the 10,000
Americans in Oregon left by the fall to find gold in California.
(SFEC, 6/21/98, Z1 p.4)
1850 Jul 25, Gold was discovered
in the Rogue River in Oregon, extending the quest for gold up the
Pacific coast.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1851 Oregon’s 1st covered wooden
bridge was built in Oregon City.
(SSFC, 9/16/01, p.T12)
1853 William Waldo, a Whig
candidate for governor of Ca., lost the election and moved to Oregon.
He was a major property owner in southern Marin Ct. and his name stuck
to the steep hill and later the tunnel just north of the GG Bridge.
(SFC, 1/26/98, p.A11)
1855 Some 400 pioneers arrived via
the Oregon Trail and established the first Christian communal society
west of the Mississippi at Aurora.
(SFEC, 10/18/98, p.T6)
1855 Nez Perce elders agreed to
sell most of their land to the US government. They retained some 10
thousand square miles as a reservation in the area where Washington,
Oregon and Idaho meet. Gold was soon discovered in the area and in 1863
the US government called for a new deal.
(ON, 3/04, p.1)
1859 Feb 14, Oregon was admitted
to the Union as the 33rd state.
(Pale Ale coaster)(HN, 2/14/98)(AP, 2/14/98)
1860 Patrick Hughes arrived from
Ireland and build a homestead at Cape Blanco on 80 acres.
(SFEC, 7/27/97, p.T3)
1863 The US government paid a
group of Nez Perce Indians $265,000 for some 6 million acres in the
area of Lewiston, Oregon.
(ON, 3/04, p.1)
1864 The Multnomah County Library
was launched with $250 donations from 101 citizens.
(WSJ, 6/16/97, p.10)
1865-1890 Wars against the native American Indians
were fought during this period in the Pacific Northwest. In 2003 Peter
Cozzens edited: “Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: The Wars
for the Pacific Northwest.”
(AH, 6/03, p.62)
1867 Apr, George N. Jaquith was
killed during an expedition against the Bannock Indians in the Steen
Mountains.
(SFC, 8/27/98, p.A9)
1867 Carlton Watkins took pictures
along the Columbia River that included one of Cape Horn.
(SFEC, 10/3/99, DB p.33)
1870 The Blanco Lighthouse was
constructed at Cape Blanco.
(SFEC, 7/27/97, p.T3)
1871 Aug, Joseph became chief of
Nez Perce Indians in the Wallowa Valley, Oregon.
(ON, 3/04, p.1)
1872 Aug 14, Chief Joseph met in
council with some 40 settlers in the Wallowa Valley and ordered them to
leave the Indian land.
(ON, 3/04, p.2)
1872 Peter French (23) rode from
Ca. with 1,200 head of shorthorn cattle for Dr. Hugh Glenn and settled
in what is now called Frenchglen.
(SFEC, 7/6/97, p.T5)
1873 Jun 16, Pres. Grant signed an
executive order that permitted Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce to live
in the Wallowa Valley, Oregon, to perpetuity.
(SFEC, 6/15/97, Par. p.5)(ON, 3/04, p.2)
1873 Oct 3, Captain Jack and three
other Modoc Indians were hanged in Oregon for the murder of General
Edward Canby.
(HN, 10/3/98)
1874 The clipper ship Western
Shore was built at Coos Bay for the Simpson Brothers Lumber Co. of San
Francisco. In 1878 it ran aground on Duxbury Reef near Bolinas, Ca.
(SFC, 10/22/05, p.B2)
1874 Elijah Davidson discovered a
marble cavern in the Siskiyou Mountains that later became a national
monument.
(SFEM, 10/12/97, p.17)
1875 Seth Lewelling of Milwaukie,
Oregon, grew the 1st Bing cherry from the seed of a Republican cherry.
He named it Bing after a Chinese worker on his farm.
(SFC, 4/12/03, p.E3)
1876 Henry Theophilus Fink
(b.1854) was the first Oregon student to graduate from Harvard. The
whole town of Aurora helped him with expenses. Fink became well known
as a musical writer and critic.
(SFEC, 10/18/98,
p.T7)(www.tribalsmile.com/music/article_169.shtml)
1877 Jun 14, Two Nez Perce Indians
killed 3 white men.
(ON, 3/04, p.5)
1877 Jun 15, The US Army under
Gen’l. Oliver Otis Howard began to pursue some 800 Nez Perce. The Nez
Perce had been ordered to leave the Valley of the Winding Waters
(Wallowa Valley) in Oregon.
(SFC, 6/13/97, p.A13)(SFEC, 6/15/97, Par p.1)(SSFC,
7/9/06, p.G4)
1877 Jun 16, The Nez Perce War
began in the northwestern US. The First Squadron of the First Regiment,
the oldest cavalry unit in the US, fought the Apaches and the Nez
Perces.
(WUD, 1994, p.964)(WSJ, 12/27/95, p. A-1)(ON, 3/04,
p.5)
1877 Oct 5, Nez Perce Chief Joseph
and 418 survivors were captured in the Bear Paw mountains and forced
into reservations in Kansas. They surrendered in Montana Territory,
after a 1,700-mile trek to reach Canada fell 40 miles short. Nez Perce
Chief Joseph surrendered to General O.O. Howard and Colonel Nelson
Miles at the Bear Paw ravine in Montana Territory, saying, "Hear me, my
chiefs, my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will
fight no more, forever." The retreat had lasted three months and left
120 Nez Perces dead. Miles had found and surrounded the Nez Perce camp
with the help of Sioux and Cheyenne scouts. Many whites, including
Howard, admired the Nez Perces' fighting ability and Chief Joseph
himself, who was considered humane and eloquent. He died in 1904.
(HFA, '96, p.40)(SFC, 6/13/97, p.A13)(HNPD,
10/5/98)(HN, 10/5/98)
1881 Dutch Henry, a miner in
Oregon’s Rogue River area, went on trial for the murder of a
suspiciously large number of fellow miners in “self defense,” but was
not convicted.
(SSFC, 3/18/07, p.G4)
1883 The Oregon State Hospital was
built in Salem. It was used for the 1975 film “One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest.” In 2004 legislators discovered the cremated remains of
some 3,600 mental patients in corroding copper canisters. In 2008 the
main building was scheduled to be torn down and replaced by a new
complex.
(SFC, 7/16/08,
p.A8)(www.oregon.gov/DHS/mentalhealth/osh/main.shtml)
1885 Capt. George Flavel built his
Victorian home at 8th and Duane streets in Astoria, Ore. It was later
turned into a museum.
(SSFC, 3/20/05, p.D16)
1887 Charles Lux died. His firm,
Miller and Lux, by this time owned some 700,000 head of cattle in
Arizona, Nevada and Oregon. Over 700 miles of private telegraph lines
connected their ranches.
(SSF, 1976, p.2)
1891 The Multnomah Athletic Club
opened in Portland, Oregon.
(WSJ, 5/22/06, p.A1)
1892 The Portland Art Museum
opened.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.T12)
1893 A mercantile store was built
in Aurora later known as the Impressions of Aurora, an antique
dealership.
(SFEC, 10/18/98, p.T6)
1893 Chatauqua, a nationwide
traveling lecture and entertainment program, came to Ashland.
(SFEC, 6/15/97, p.T3)
1894 Mar, The first football game
was played at the University of Oregon. UO defeated Albany College (now
Lewis and Clark College) by a score of 44-2.
(http://admissions.uoregon.edu/visit/qtvr/autzen/autzens.html)
1896 In Portland the Union
Station, later the Amtrak station, was built.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.T12)
1897 Dec 26, Peter French shot and
killed sodbuster, Ed Oliver, after Oliver drew a gun on him. French
confessed to the murder but was acquitted.
(SFEC, 7/6/97, p.T5)
1898 Patrick Hughes at Cape Blanco
commissioned architect P.J. Lindberg to build an 11-room house.
(SFEC, 7/27/97, p.T3)
1900 Frank Doernbecher (d.1921)
founded Doernbecher Manufacturing in Portland, Oregon. The company was
eventually taken over by Barker Furniture.
(SFC, 11/1/06, p.G2)
1901 Feb 28, Linus Pauling,
American chemist, was born in Portland, Oregon. He won the Nobel Prize
for chemistry (1954) and a Nobel Peace Prize (1962) for his arguments
for nuclear disarmament. He also advocated major doses of vitamin C to
maintain health.
(HN,
2/28/99)(http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1962/pauling-bio.html)
1901 At Cape Blanco Patrick Hughes
was killed when his horse stumbled and crushed him. His ranch fell
slowly to ruin and was sold to the state in 1971.
(SFEC, 7/27/97, p.T3)
1902 Jun 2, 2nd statewide
initiative and referendum law was adopted in Oregon.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1902 Sep 12, The Yacolt Fire
burned 238,000 acres in Oregon and Washington and killed 38 people.
(SFC, 10/30/03, p.A15)
1903 May 5, James Beard, US
culinary expert, author (Delights & Prejudices), was born in
Portland, Ore.
(http://members.localnet.com/~jgeorge/jbeard.htm)
1905 Teddy Roosevelt established
the million-acre Siskiyou Forest Reserve in Oregon.
(SFEC, 6/20/99, p.T8)
1906 Oct 25, The Peter Iredale, a
British 278-foot 4-mast bark, wrecked on Clatsop Beach, but the whole
crew survived. The only enemy shell to strike Oregon soil during WW II
landed near the wreck.
(PC, Smith-Western)
1908 Jul 22, Claire Falkenstein
(1908-1997), sculptor and painter, was born to a pioneer family in Coos
Bay, Or. Her father, Louis Frederick Falkenstein, was a timber
executive.
(SFC,10/24/97, p.A22)
1908 Portland held its first Rose
Festival and became known as the Rose City.
(WSJ, 3/2/00, p.A24)
1909 The Oregon Caves in the
Siskiyou Mountains was set aside as one of the first national monuments.
(SFEM, 10/12/97, p.17)
1914 Sep, Francis H. Leggett, a
steam cruiser bound for San Francisco, sank in heavy seas off the
Oregon coast. 74 people died and 2 survived.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W4)
1914-1976 The Clatsop County Jail in Astoria, Oregon,
was located at Duane and Ninth.
(SSFC, 3/20/05, p.D16)
1915 The Wapama steam schooner was
built almost entirely of Douglas fir in St. Helens, Ore. She carried
Northwest lumber down the coast and was sold to Alaska Transportation
Co. in 1937 and used as a refrigerator ship between Puget Sound and
Alaska for 10 years. California rescued and restored the ship for
display in 1963. In 1979 she was put into drydock and repairs were
estimated at 18 million in 2000.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A19)
1915 The Kennedy elementary
schools was built in Portland (5736 NE 33rd). It closed in 1975 and was
condemned in 1980. In 1997 Mike and Brian McMenamin opened it as a
hotel.
(SSFC, 6/6/04, D5)
1916 The Frenchglen Hotel was
built for cattle traders and stockmen in southeastern Oregon. It was
named after Peter French.
(SFEC, 7/6/97, p.T5)
1916 The Gallon House, an 84-foot
covered bridge, was built to cross the Abiqua Creek near Silverton.
(SFEC, 1/11/98, p.T3)
1919 Feb 25, Oregon introduced the
first state tax on gasoline at one cent per gallon, to be used for road
construction.
(HN, 2/25/98) (AP, 2/25/98)
1921 Jan 29, A hurricane hit
Washington and Oregon.
(MC, 1/29/02)
1923 Oct 20, Philip Whalen
(d.2002), Zen Buddhist priest and SF Beat poet, was born in
Portland.
(SFC, 6/27/02, p.A19)
1925 Portland’s Masonic Temple was
built.
(SSFC, 10/2/05, p.E7)
1927 Jul 7, Doc Severinson,
[Carl], bandleader, trumpeter (Tonight), was born in Arlington, Or.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1927 Aug 3, Gordon Scott, actor
(Tarzan & the Trappers), was born in Portland, Oregon.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1927 The Paramount Theater in
Portland opened. It later became part of the Performing Arts Center.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.T12)
1928 Nov 29, Paul Simon (d.2003),
later Senator of Illinois, was born in Eugene, Or.
(SFC, 12/10/03, p.A2)
1930 Jun 17, Pres. Hoover signed
the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill, placing the highest tariff on imports to
the U.S. It was sponsored by Willis Hawley, a congressman from Oregon,
and Reed Smoot, a senator from Utah. An international trade war began
with the US passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. Foreign countries
retaliated. Many economists blame Smoot-Hawley for deepening the
depression. It reflected the "Protectionism" of the times.
(WSJ, 7/1/96, p.A11)(HN, 6/17/98)(WSJ, 1/11/99,
p.R50)(WSJ, 2/3/04, p.A12)
1932 May 29, World War I veterans
began arriving in Washington DC to demand cash bonuses they weren’t
scheduled to receive for another 13 years. 17,000 veterans, calling
themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Force, marched on Washington
demanding cash for their bonus certificates. They were led by Walter
Waters, a former sergeant from Portland, Ore.
(TMC, 1994, p.1932)(AP, 5/29/97)(WSJ, 11/7/05, p.B1)
1933 Aug 14, A wildfire began in
Tillamook, Oregon. It was extinguished on Sep 5 by rain. Some 311,000
acres burned in the wildfire.
(http://www.fact-index.com/t/ti/tillamook_burn.html)(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A5)
1934 Jul 29, The West Coast
longshoremen’s strike came to an end on its 82nd day when the dock
workers’ leaders accepted conditions proposed by the National
Longshoremen’s board, pending arbitration. Men returned to work on July
31.
(SSFC, 7/26/09, DB
p.42)(www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/STRIKES!/exh.html)
1934 The Civilian Conservation
Corp. built the West Shelter at Oregon’s Cape Perpetua.
(SSFC, 9/21/08, p.E8)
1934 The Oregon Caves Chateau was
designed and constructed for $50,000 by Gust Lium, a local builder.
(SFEM, 10/12/97, p.39)
1935 Angus Bowmer, a theater
professor at Stanford and Oregon Normal School, founded the Shakespeare
Festival at Ashland.
(SSFC, 3/18/01, p.T8)
1936 In Monroe, Ore., Ralph Hull
began the Hull-Oakes Lumber Co. and used steam power for power
continuously to 1998 when the National Park Service presented the mill
a history of itself, already listed on the National Historic Register.
(SFC, 12/29/98, p.E4)
1937 Sep 28, Pres. Roosevelt
dedicated Timberline Lodge at the foot of Palmer snowfield in Mt. Hood
National Forest. It was constructed with public funds and WPA workers
and did not open until Feb. 1938.
(SFEM, 10/12/97, p.40)
1937 Sep 28, FDR dedicated
Bonneville Dam on Columbia River in Oregon.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1939 William Gruber and Harold
Graves produced the 1st View-Master in Portland. 2 cameras were used to
create stereo images. They were introduced at the New York World’s Fair
and became an overnight sensation. In 2009 Fisher-Price eliminated
almost all of its View Master titles, except for a handful of
children’s titles.
(SFC, 8/31/00, p.C8)(Econ, 3/14/09, p.34)
1939 A 2nd big Tillamook fire
occurred. It burned 190,000 acres before being extinguished, and was
contained within the bounds of the earlier fire.
(http://www.fact-index.com/t/ti/tillamook_burn.html)
1941 Oct 2, Gilbert Gable, mayor
of Port Orford, Ore., announced with some pals that they were fed up of
being neglected by legislators in Salem and Sacramento and began
promoting a 51st state named Jefferson with Yreka as the capital.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A26)(AH, 2/05, p.20)
1941 Oct, The US Army established
the Umatilla Munitions Depot on 20,000 acres of desert and sagebrush in
Oregon just 6 weeks before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
(SFEC, 4/27/97,
p.A18)(www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/umatilla.htm)
1941 Nov 27, Jefferson seceded
from Oregon and California. Jefferson was the winning name for a new
state made of California’s northern Siskiyou, Del Norte and Trinity
counties along with Oregon’s southern Curray County. California’s Gov.
Culbert L. Olson was soon informed that until roads were repaired,
Jefferson would be forced to rebel every Thursday. In 2008 calls for a
Jefferson state gained steam and included an additional 5 counties in
southern Oregon and 2 more in northern California.
(AH, 2/05, p.21)(SSFC, 10/5/08, p.A11)
1941 Dec 4, In Yreka, Ca., the new
state of Jefferson elected John C. Childs (71) as its 1st governor.
(AH, 2/05, p.22)
1942 Jun 22, A Japanese submarine
shelled Fort Stevens, Oregon, at the mouth of the Columbia River.
(HN, 6/22/98)(MC, 6/22/02)
1942 Sep 9, A Japanese float
plane, launched from a submarine, made its first bombing run on a U.S.
forest near Brookings, Oregon. Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on
Oregon in an attempt to set fire to the forests of the Northwest. The
forests failed to ignite, but Pacific Coast citizens stepped-up their
blackout drills in preparation for future Japanese raids.
(HN, 9/9/99)(MC, 9/9/01)
1942 Japanese pilot, Nobuo Fujita
(d. Sep 30, 1997 at 85), flew bombing runs over Oregon and set fires in
the coastal forests. In 1962 he visited the area he had bombed with
deep shame and sincere apologies and gave his 400-year-old samurai
sword to the town of Brookings. In 1998 some of his ashes were
scattered over his bombing run.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.B13)(SFC, 10/12/98, p.A7)
1945 May 5, A Japanese balloon
bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing Mrs. Elsie
Mitchell, the pregnant wife of a minister, and five children after they
attempted to drag it out the woods in Lakeview, Oregon. The balloon was
armed, and exploded soon after they began tampering with it. They
became the 1st and only known American civilians to be killed in the
continental US during World War II.
(AP, 5/5/97)(MC, 5/5/02)
1945 Jul 9, A 3rd big Tillamook
fire occurred near the Salmonberry River, and was joined two days later
by a second blaze on the Wilson River, started by a discarded
cigarette. This fire burned 180,000 acres before it was put out. The
cause of the blaze on the Salmonberry River was mysterious, and many
believed it had been set by an incendiary balloon launched by the
Japanese, and brought to Oregon by the jet stream.
(http://www.fact-index.com/t/ti/tillamook_burn.html)
1946 Nov 25, Supreme Court granted
Oregon Indians land payment right from the U.S. government.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1947 Jul 28, Sally Struther,
actress (Gloria-All in the Family), was born in Portland, Oregon.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1949 The US federal government
designated Cape Perpetua in Oregon as a National Scenic Area.
(SSFC, 9/21/08, p.E8)
1952 Les Schwab (1917-2007)
purchased a run-down tire shop in Prineville, Ore. He soon expanded,
renamed the operation after himself and developed it into a major tire
chain. In 2006 sales reached $1.6 billion.
(WSJ, 6/9/07, p.A6)
1953 Jan, Sen. Wayne Morse of
Oregon left the Republican Party to protest its domination by
conservatives.
(WSJ, 5/25/01, p.A14)
1959-1967 Mark Odom Hatfield (b.1922) served as
governor of Oregon.
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000343)
1961 Sep 30, A bill for the 1773
Boston Tea Party was paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon. He wrote a check
for $196, the total cost of all tea lost.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1962 The first chemical munitions
arrived at Oregon’s Umatilla Chemical Depot and kept coming until 1969.
It was all done in secret.
(SFEC, 4/27/97,
p.A18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umatilla_Chemical_Depot)
1964 Bill Bowerman (d.1999 at 88),
coach at the University of Oregon (1949-1972), began an operation with
former runner Phil Knight that grew to become the Nike Shoe Corp.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.C10)
1966 Autzen Stadium was built. It
replaced historic Hayward Field as the home of Oregon football, and was
named for the late Thomas J. Autzen, a Portland lumberman, sportsman
and philanthropist, who contributed $250,000 to the original
construction. He was the founder of the Autzen foundation, which gave
the university $250,000 to help finance the project.
(http://admissions.uoregon.edu/visit/qtvr/autzen/autzens.html)
1967-1997 Mark Odom Hatfield (b.1922) served as US
Senator for Oregon.
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000343)
1968 May 28, Minnesota Senator
Eugene McCarthy beat Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in the Democratic primary
in Oregon.
(http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/06/15_newsroom_mccarthytimeline/)
1968 Oct 2, The 2,650-mile Pacific
Crest Trail, spanning Mexico to Canada, was designated a National
Scenic Trail as part of the US National Trails System Act.
{USA, California, Oregon, Washington}
(SFC, 7/16/08,
p.E2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Crest_Trail)
1968 The Rogue River was named as
one the country's first national wild and Scenic rivers.
(SFEC, 3/19/00, p.T4)
1970s Portland Mayor Bud Clark
posed for a poster that read “Expose yourself to art” with Clark in a
dirty-old-man raincoat.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.T12)
1971 Nov 24, On Thanksgiving eve
DB Cooper boarded Flight 305 in Portland, Or., and demanded $200,000
with the threat of a bomb. He parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727
with the money over the Cascade Mountains near Ariel, Wash., and was
never seen again. FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach wrote the book
NORJAK that described the case. A packet containing $5,880 of the
ransom money was found in 1980 on the north shore of the Columbia
River, just west of the Washington city of Vancouver.
(SFEC, 11/17/96, Z1 p.5)(AP, 11/24/97)
1971 William E. Colson (1941-2007)
founded Holiday Management in Salem, Ore., to develop senior housing.
By 2007 Holiday Retirement Corp. owned over 35,000 apartments in the US
and Canada and was sold to Fortress Investment Group for over $6.5
billion.
(WSJ, 5/26/07, p.A6)
1972 Steve Prefontaine, a
University of Oregon runner and middle-distance running prodigy, became
Nike's first endorsed athlete.
(www.regi-shoes.com/Nike-sneakers-streetwear-bags-12-page-1.html)
1973 Oregon set rules limiting
urban sprawl.
(Econ, 10/22/05, p.35)
1974 May 6, Bundy victim Roberta
Parks disappeared from OSU, Corvallis, Ore.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6664391)
1974 Jul 22, Wayne L. Morse
(b.1900), US Senator from Oregon (1945-1969), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Morse)
1974 Gov. McCall allowed Portland
to rip up a busy highway on the west bank of the Willamette and replace
it with a 22-block park. The park was named Gov. Tom McCall Park.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.T12)
1974 The town of Aurora was
designated Oregon’s first National Historic district.
(SFEC, 10/18/98, p.T6)
1974 Intel Corp. acquired 35 acres
in Hillsboro.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.B1)
1975 Willamette Week was founded
and carved itself a niche with an unflinching look at Oregon politics.
(SFC, 4/5/05, p.A11)
1975 Oregon had 5 wineries. By
2003 the number grew to some 200.
(SSFC, 3/16/03, p.C10)
1976 Intel Corp. began
construction of a plant in Hillsboro.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.B10)
1977 The Trojan Nuclear Power
Plant began providing electricity to Portland.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A3)
1978 Dec 19, Jury selection began
in Salem, Ore., in the case of John J. Rideout, accused of raping his
wife, Greta. Rideout was acquitted; the couple divorced after the trial.
(AP, 12/19/03)
1979 Feb 26, A total solar eclipse
cast a moving shadow 175 miles wide from Oregon to North Dakota before
moving into Canada. This was the last total solar eclipse of the 20th
century for the continental US.
(AP, 2/26/99)(SC, 2/26/02)
1979 Oregon voters approved a law
stipulating that if the state’s general-fund revenue exceeded budget
estimates by 2% or more, the excess had to go back to taxpayers.
(WSJ, 3/24/06, p.A8)
1980 Jun 7, Linda Aguilar (21) was
kidnapped by Gerald Gallego and Charlene Williams. Her body was found 2
weeks later in Gold Beach, Ore.
(SFC,10/28/97, p.A17)
1980 The town of Hillsboro had
27,664 residents. By 2002 it grew to over 70,000.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.B10)
1981 The Oregon commune leader,
Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh (d.1990), was booted from the US for immigration
fraud. He moved his free-love Tantra commune back to Pune, India. In
1985 he changed his name to Osho. His Tantric ruminations were later
published by St. Martin’s Press: "The Book of Secrets." From the Pune
school Marie Elizabeth Naslednikov (Margot Anand) published "The Art of
Sexual Ecstasy."
(WSJ, 12/7/98, p.A1,6)(SFC, 12/13/02, p.K6)(SSFC,
8/29/04, p.E3)
1981 Ward F. Weaver Jr., a trucker
from Oregon, clubbed to death a stranded motorist and raped and
strangled the man’s fiancé before dumping her body in Oroville,
Ca. Weaver was convicted and sentenced to 42 years in prison for
another crime involving rape and murder.
(SFC, 8/26/02, p.A3)
1981-1996 Stanford Chen (d.1999 at 51), reporter and
op-ed for the Oregonian, wrote "Counting on Each Other: A History of
the Asian American Journalists Association from 1981-1996."
(SFEC, 2/7/99, p.D8)
1984 Apr 6, Pioneer Courthouse
Square opened in Portland.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A6)
1984 Apr 27, In Oregon Billy
Gilley Jr. (28) murdered his parents and a sister (11) with a baseball
bat and ran away with his other sister Jody (16). She soon contacted
the police and Billy was arrested. In 2008 Kathryn Harrison authored
“While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family.”
(SFC, 6/17/08, p.E3)
1984 In Oregon members of the
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult sprinkled salmonella bacteria on salad bar
ingredients in local restaurants. Over 750 people were sickened.
(SFC, 2/20/98, p.A9)
1985 The film “Goonies” was
directed by Richard Donner. It was shot in Astoria, Oregon, where the
house at 368 38th St. became known as the Goonies House.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0089218/)(SSFC, 3/20/05, p.D16)
1985-1993 Shirley Huffman served as mayor of
Hillsboro.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.B10)
1986 May 15, Searchers on Oregon's
Mount Hood found two teenage survivors of a hiking expedition that
became trapped in a whiteout blizzard. Nine other climbers died.
(AP, 5/15/06)
1986 Nov 17, Pres. Reagan signed
the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act. It designated over
292,000 acres in Oregon and Washington states as federally regulated
land. Much of the work in getting the act passed was done by Nancy
Russell (d.2008).
(www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/111786a.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/nphxt8)
1986 Roger Wendlick, a Portland
construction worker, began collecting everything related to the Lewis
and Clark expedition. In 1998 Lewis and Clark College agreed to pay him
$375,000 in cash and $30,000 a year for a decade for the collection and
gave him a desk in the library.
(WSJ, 12/5/03, p.A1)
1987 Jan 12, Neil Goldschmidt
(b.1940), former mayor of Portland, began serving a 4-year term as
governor of Oregon. He later served under Pres. Carter as Sec. of
Transportation. It was later reported that Goldschmidt had engaged in a
3-year relationship, while mayor of Portland, with a girl (14) who
babysat his children.
(http://tinyurl.com/5l7rj)(SFC, 4/5/05, p.A11)
1988 Rogue Beer was born on the
Oregon coast in Newport.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.T12)
1988 Marion Carl (82), former US
Navy test pilot, was shot to death in Oregon by a house robber. In 1947
he set a world speed record of 651 mph in a D-558-I at Muroc Field
(later Edwards AFB), Ca.
(SFC, 6/30/98, p.A3)(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1990 Jan 19, Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh (b.1931), Indian guru (Osho), died in Pune, India. From 1981
to 1985 he resided in the US. His followers were involved in a
bio-terrorist attack in Oregon in 1984.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.K6)(SFC, 6/15/05,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh)
1990 Jan 23, In Oregon Keith
Hunter Jesperson (b.1955) began his career as a serial killer with the
sexual assault and murder of Taunja Bennett. He went on to murder 8
women. He was arrested in March, 1995. In October 1995 just before
going to trial, he pleaded guilty to the murder of Bennett. Multnomah
County Presiding Judge Donald H. Londer sentenced Jesperson to life in
prison, setting a minimum 30-year prison term before being eligible for
parole. Jesperson claimed to have murdered up to 160 people in
California, Florida, Washington, Oregon and Wyoming. In 2002 Jack
Olsen (d.2002) authored “I: The Creation of a Serial Killer.”
(SSFC, 8/18/02,
p.M2)(www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/jesperson/murder_1.html)
1990 Apr 1, It became illegal in
Salem, Oregon, to be within 2' of nude dancers.
(MC, 4/1/02)
1990 Jun 4, Janet Adkins (54) of
Portland, Ore., became the first person to use a suicide machine
developed by Dr. Kevorkian. This began a national debate over the right
to die.
(SFC, 4/14/99, p.A3)(www.lectlaw.com/files/cas20.htm)
1990 Oct, A $12.5 million verdict
against the White Aryan Resistance was pronounced for the killing of an
Ethiopian student in Portland.
(SFC, 7/25/98, p.A3)
1990 Michael Garnier opened his
Out 'n' About Treesort in Takilma, Oregon. Legal status from the county
was attained in 2001.
(SSFC, 6/8/03, p.C1)
1990s Specific details on the
stockpile at Umatilla was classified until the early 1990s.
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.A18)
1992 Jul 17, Donna Ferguson (18)
and Todd Rudiger (29) were murdered in Portland, Ore. In 1998 Sebastian
Shaw was indicted for the murders. He pleaded guilty in 2000 and was
sentenced to two life terms. Later, his DNA would be conclusive
evidence that he also killed one Jay Rickbeil in July 1991. He would
receive a third sentence of life in prison. Shaw, born in Vietnam in
1967 as Chau Quong, had been airlifted from the roof of the US Embassy
on the day Saigon fell.
(SFC, 5/25/06, p.B1)(http://tinyurl.com/h5n45)
1992 Oct 28, The US Professional
and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) was enacted. It banned
betting on sports with exemptions to Delaware, Nevada, Oregon and
Montana.
(Econ, 9/26/09, p.42)(http://tinyurl.com/yenf89a)
1992 Nov 21, Sen. Bob Packwood,
R-Ore., issued an apology but refused to discuss allegations that he'd
made unwelcome sexual advances toward 10 women over the years.
(AP, 11/21/97)
1992 Nov 22, A Washington Post
story 1st revealed claims by several women that Sen. Bob Packwood,
liberal Oregon Republican, had accosted them with unwanted touching and
kisses.
(www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2001/cyb20010716.asp#5)
1992 William Kittredge of Oregon
authored “Hole in the Sky.” It was a memoir on the destruction of
habitat.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, BR p.12)
1993 Sep 20, In Southern Oregon an
5.4 earthquake caused a rockslide that killed one motorist.
(SFEC, 10/17/99, p.A3)
1993 Oct 31, In Oregon 7 men
robbed the Oki Semiconductor facility in Portland of microchips valued
at several million dollars. There were convicted in 2001 and 4 of the
men were sentenced to prison terms in 2002.
(SFC, 6/29/02, p.A16)
1993 Nov 2, Senate called for full
disclosure of Oregon Sen. Bob Packwood's diaries as part of a probe
into allegations of sexual harassment and possible criminal wrongdoing
by the Oregon Republican.
(AP, 11/2/98)
1993 Dec 16, Sen. Bob Packwood
(R-Ore.), accused by more than two dozen women of sexual harassment,
turned over his tape-recorded personal diaries to a federal judge.
(AP, 12/16/03)
1993 Ward Cunningham (b.1949)
founded the 1st Wiki site, The Portland Repository.” The site was
developed so that multiple users could revise and update information.
He joined Microsoft in 2003.
(WSJ, 7/29/04, p.B1)(www.en.wikipedia.org)
1993 The 16-year-old Trojan
Nuclear Power Plant was shut down.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A3)
1993 Rosie the elephant died after
40 years at the Portland Zoo.
(WSJ, 3/2/00, p.A24)
1994 Jan 13, Authorities in
Portland, Ore., arrested Shawn Eckardt, a bodyguard for figure skater
Tonya Harding, and Derrick Smith in connection with the attack on Nancy
Kerrigan.
(AP, 1/13/99)
1994 Mar 16, Figure skater Tonya
Harding pleaded guilty in Portland, Ore., to conspiracy to hinder
prosecution for covering up the attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan,
avoiding jail but drawing a $100,000 fine.
(AP, 3/16/99)
1994 Jul 13, Tonya Harding's
ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, was sentenced in Portland, Ore., to two
years in prison for his role in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan. He ended
up serving six months.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1994 Nov, Oregon voters passed a
Death with Dignity Act. It allowed doctors to prescribe lethal drugs
for terminally ill patients with less than 6 months to live. The law
was upheld in 1997.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.A4)
1995 May 17, The US Senate ethics
committee concluded that Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) had to face a
full-scale Senate investigation of charges that included making
improper advances toward women.
(AP, 5/17/00)
1995 Aug 4, A US judge ruled that
Oregon's assisted-suicide law, approved by the voters last Nov., is
unconstitutional. The law would have allowed doctors to prescribe
lethal doses of drugs for dying patients.
(WSJ, 8/4/95, p.B-1)
1995 Sep 6, The Senate Ethics
Committee voted unanimously to recommend expulsion of Oregon Senator
Bob Packwood, accused of sexual and official misconduct.
(AP, 9/6/00)
1995 Dec, In Medford Roxanne Ellis
(53) and Michelle Abdill (42) were kidnapped, robbed and murdered by
Robert Acremont (29). He pleaded guilty at his 1997 trial. Acremont was
sentenced to death on Oct 27, 1997.
(SFEC,10/26/97, p.D12)(SFC,10/28/97, p.A10)
1996 Jun 28, A fire in a Portland
suburb apartment building killed 8 people. A 12-year-old boy initially
hailed as a hero for alerting people to the fire later admitted that he
had set the fire.
(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A7)
1996 Tom Curtis and Ethan Thrower,
high school students, began to stage armed robberies for thrills.
Curtis (18) was arrested in 1998 in a Las Vegas hotel while talking to
his father, who used a 2nd line to talk to police.
(SFC, 7/30/98, p.A3)
1997 Apr 21, A federal court
blocked Oregon’s 1994 approved law on doctor assisted suicide. The
block was rejected by the Supreme Court in October.
(SFC, 4/22/97, p.A15)
1997 Jul 3, The Rainbow Family,
founded in 1971, began their 25th gathering in Ochoco National Forest
in Oregon. 20-30,000 were expected to participate.
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.A10)
1997 Oct 14, The Supreme Court
rejected the appeals of those who sought to block the voter approved
law on assisted suicide.
(SFC, 10/15/97, p.A1)
1997 Nov 4, Voters affirmed
doctor-assisted suicides with a 60% approval.
(SFC,11/5/97, p.A3)
1997 Construction of a chemical
weapons incinerator at the Army Umatilla Munitions Depot was scheduled
to begin.
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.A18)
1997 Roy Carver and his Pacific
Farms marketed their 1st successful crop of wasabi.
(WSJ, 10/9/01, p.A20)
1998 Mar 23, In Oregon 2 river
rafters were killed on the Illinois River at the section known as the
“Green Wall” after a weekend rainfall and snowmelt doubled the river’s
volume.
(SFC, 3/24/98, p.A4)
1998 Mar, The book “Oregon,” by
Judy Jewell with photographs by Greg Vaughn, was part of the Compass
American Guides series and featured maps and plenty of local history.
(SFEC, 5/10/98, p.T14)
1998 May 21, In Springfield, Ore.,
Kipland Kinkel (15) killed 1 classmate and wounded 19 more at Thurston
High School. His parents, William (59) and Faith (57), were found shot
dead at home and a 2nd student died the next day. He had been expelled
from school the previous day for bringing a gun to school. Kinkel
dropped an insanity plea in 1999 and pleaded guilty to 4 counts of
murder and 26 counts of attempted murder. He was sentenced over 111
years in prison.
(SFC, 5/22/98, p.A1)(SFC, 5/23/98, p.A1)(SFC,
9/25/99, p.A3)(SFC, 11/11/99, p.A3)
1998 May 26, Gladys Leibbrand
Valley (91), a prominent alumnus and philanthropist to Oregon State
Univ., died.
(SFC, 5/29/98, p.D7)
1998 Jun 28, Major Gen’l. Marion
Carl (82), a WW II fighter pilot, was fatally shot at his home in
southern Oregon during a robbery. Jesse Stuart Fanus (19) was later
arrested for the murder. Fanus was convicted in March and a jury
sentenced him to be executed in May, 1999.
(SFC, 7/6/98, p.A7)(SFC, 5/6/99, p.A3)
1998 Aug 3, The Oregon coastal
Coho salmon were listed by the federal government as a Threatened
species.
(SFC, 8/4/98, p.A7)
1998 Oct 31, Stephanie Condon (14)
vanished while babysitting a cousin's twins in Riddle, Oregon. Her
remains were found in 2009 in Glide, Ore., about 30 miles from Riddle.
Dale Wayne Hill, was arrested in Dayton, Nev., on March 25, 2009, on a
charge of failure to register as a felon. He was the last person known
to have seen her alive.
(AP, 3/25/09)
1998 Dec 9, An appeals court in
Oregon ruled that the state constitution gives gay and lesbian
government employees the right to health and life insurance benefits
for their domestic partners.
(SFC, 12/10/98, p.C11)
1998 In Astoria, Or., the 1st
fisherman poet festival was organized.
(WSJ, 3/28/01, p.)
1998 The Nez Pierce tribe returned
to its ancient homeland in Oregon after 121 years of exile.
(SFEC, 2/13/00, BR p.5)
1998 Oregon passed a law that
allowed adult adoptees to access their birth records. The law became
effective in 2000 after the Supreme Court ended an appeals process.
(SFC, 5/31/00, p.A7)
1998 In Oregon 15 terminally ill
people took advantage of the new assisted suicide law.
(SFC, 2/18/99, p.A3)
1998 In Portland, Or., the 18-mile
West Side MAX, Metropolitan Area Express, light rail system began
operating.
(WSJ, 12/2/99, p.A1)
1998 An arson fire at US Forest
Industries in Medford, Or., was committed by members of the Earth
Liberation Front. In 2007 Kendall Tankersley was sentenced to 3 years
and 5 months in prison for her role.
(SFC, 6/1/07, p.A3)
1999 Feb 2, A federal jury in
Portland, Oregon, ordered abortion foes who had created "wanted"
posters and a Web site listing the names and addresses of "baby
butchers" to pay $107 million in damages; the defendants said they
would appeal. In 2004 the case was before the U.S. Supreme Court.
(AP, 2/2/04)
1999 Feb 4, The 693-foot cargo
ship New Carissa ran aground in Coos Bay and began leaking oil.
(SFC, 2/10/99, p.A3)
1999 Feb 11, On the Oregon coast
the New Carissa cargo ship was set on fire with explosives to burn off
some 400,000 gallons of fuel oil to prevent its spillage.
(SFC, 2/12/99, p.A5)
1999 Feb 27, The New Carissa was
dragged out to sea for sinking.
(SFEC, 2/28/99, p.A7)
1999 Mar 3, The New Carissa ran
aground again after its towline broke during towing in stormy seas.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A3)
1999 Mar 11, Navy demolition
experts set off explosives to sink the New Carissa 290 miles off the
central Oregon coast.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A3)
1999 Mar 30, A jury in Oregon hit
Philip Morris with an $81 million verdict for damages in the lung
cancer death of Jesse Williams who died of lung cancer after smoking
Marlboros for four decades. $821,000 was for compensatory damages and
the rest for punitive damages. The Supreme Court threw out the verdict
in October 2003, saying it should be reviewed by lower courts to ensure
it was not unconstitutionally excessive. In 2007 the Supreme Court
rejected the original $79.5 million punitive payout, but declined to
lay down numerical limits for such damages. By 2008 damages due to
interest reached $143 million. In 2009 the Supreme Court decided not to
a challenge by Philip Morris.
(SFC, 3/31/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/30/04)(Econ, 2/24/07,
p.76)(SFC, 4/1/09, p.A8)
1999 Jun 2, The body of a
17-year-old girl was found in the Forest Park area of Portland. This
was the 3rd young woman found killed in the last month.
(SFC, 6/5/99, p.A7)
1999 Jun 4, A federal judge in
Portland ruled that AT&T must open its cable lines to competitors.
(SFC, 6/5/99, p.A1)
1999 Jun 9, It was reported that
anarchist radicals, mentored by writer John Zerzan (55), calling
themselves the Black Army Faction were engaging in vandalism and arson
attacks on businesses in Eugene.
(WSJ, 6/9/99, p.B1)
1999 Aug 6, The Trojan Nuclear
Plant reactor began its barge move on the Columbia River for burial at
the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A3)
1999 Sep 15, A leak at the
Umatilla Chemical Depot overcame 34 workers, who were building a new
incinerator. The depot contained over 3,000 tons of deadly nerve and
mustard agents, scheduled for incineration upon completion of the
project in October 2001.
(SFC, 8/1/00, p.A5)
1999 Sep 24, Oregon teenager Kip
Kinkel, who killed his parents and gunned down two classmates at
school, abandoned an insanity defense and pleaded guilty to murder. He
was later sentenced to 112 years without parole.
(AP, 9/24/00)
1999 Oct 18, Efforts to drag the
stern of the New Carissa off the beach near Coos Bay continued.
(SFC, 10/19/99, p.A3)
1999 Nov 28, A float plane crashed
into the Columbia River shortly after takeoff 45 miles east of
Portland. William S. "Tiger" Warren (48), chairman of the Macheezmo
Mouse restaurant chain was killed with his 3 sons.
(SFC, 11/29/99, p.A3)
1999 Dec 30, A remote 80-foot
power-line tower was toppled and described as an isolated case of
criminal mischief.
(SFC, 1/1/00, p.D4)
1999 Oussama Kassir, a
Lebanese-born Swede, plotted to help Al-Qaida recruit for a weapons
training post in Bly, Oregon. In 2009 Kassir was convicted in New York
for plotting to help Al-Qaida and for distributing terrorist training
manuals over the Internet.
(SFC, 5/13/09, p.A4)
2000 Jan 19, Halfway, Ore.,
adopted the new name of Half.Com in exchange for $75,000 and 22
computers from a Pennsylvania company with the same name.
(SFC, 1/21/00, p.A10)
2000 Feb 2, A federal jury in
Portland, Oregon, ordered abortion foes who had created “wanted”
posters and a Web site listing the names and addresses of “baby
butchers” to pay $107 million in damages; the defendants promised to
appeal.
(AP, 2/2/01)
2000 May 3, The sport of
geocaching began with a cache hidden outside Portland, Oregon.
(WSJ, 3/19/02, p.A20)
2000 May 6, The 1st geocaching
cache was found hidden outside Portland, Oregon, by Mike Teague. [see
May 3]
(WSJ, 3/19/02, p.A20)
2000 May 16, Ballots were counted
in the nation’s first regular primary election conducted by mail.
Estimated response was 47%.
(SFC, 5/17/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 20, Willamette Industries
of Portland was fined $11.2 million under the federal Clean Air Act
plus $8 mil in contributions to environmental projects. It also agreed
to install an estimated $74 million worth of pollution control
equipment. The company estimated the new equipment at $28 mil.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.A5)(WSJ, 7/21/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 10, In Portland the Roman
Catholic Church apologized for the sexual abuse committed by Rev.
Maurice Grammond (80) between 1950-1974. The church agreed to pay and
undisclosed sum to 22 men.
(SFC, 10/11/00, p.A3)
2000 Fall, The Portland Art Museum
acquired the private collection of Clement Greenberg (1909-1994).
(SFC, 7/31/01, p.B1)
2000 The Oregon state constitution
was amended to include a kicker, i.e. a 1979 law that stipulated that
if the state’s general-fund revenue exceeded budget estimates by 2% or
more, the excess had to go back to taxpayers.
(WSJ, 3/24/06, p.A8)
2000 Testing of the incinerator at
Umatilla was scheduled to begin. The resulting burned ash and metal
would be buried in a hazardous-waste landfill in Arlington, 44 miles
west of the depot.
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.A18)
2001 Feb 28, A 6.8 magnitude slab
earthquake shook the Northwest and rocked the cities of Seattle and
Portland, Oregon. It was centered 32.6 miles below the surface along
the boundary of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate and the continental
North American plate. Damages were later estimated at $1.5-2 billion.
(SFC, 3/1/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/2/01, p.A1)(SFC, 1/5/02,
p.A4)(AP, 2/28/02)
2001 Jun 1, Logging trucks were
set on fire to protest logging on the slopes of Mount Hood, Oregon. 4
activists including Michael Scarpitti were charged. In 2004 Scarpitti
was arrested in Vancouver, BC, while trying to shoplift some bolt
cutters. In 2005 Canada ordered that Scarpitti, aka Tre Arrow, be
extradited to the US to face firebombing charges. In 2007 Suzanne
Savoie was sentenced to 4 years and 3 months for her role in this and
one another arson fire. In 2008 Scarpitti was extradited to the US to
face ecoterrorism charges.
(SFC, 2/16/04, p.A7)(SFC, 7/8/05, p.A3)(SFC, 6/1/07,
p.A3)(SSFC, 3/2/08, p.A2)
2001 Aug 16, Wild fires in the 10
Western US states covered over 50,000 acres, half in Oregon. 20,000
fighters fought 42 major blazes.
(SFC, 8/17/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 22, Katie Harman, Miss
Oregon, was crowned Miss America for 2002.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A27)
2001 Nov 6, Attorney Gen. Ashcroft
directed US DEA agents to go after Oregon doctors in assisted suicide
cases. On Nov 8 a federal judge issued a temp block of Ashcroft’s order
good until Nov 20.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/9/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 10, Ken Kesey (66),
author, died in Eugene, Oregon. His books included “One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest” (1962) and “Sometimes a Great Notion” (1964).
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 20, Portland police said
they would not cooperate with FBI efforts to interview some 5,000
Middle Eastern men because the questioning violated state laws.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A11)
2001 Dec 19-24, Christian Michael
Longo (27) killed his wife and 3 children. The bodies of Mary Jane
Longo and 2-year-old daughter were found in an inlet along the central
Oregon coast a week after the bodies of 2 other Longo children were
found. Longo was arrested in Mexico Jan 13. Longo was convicted and
sentenced to death Apr 16, 2003.
(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A9)(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A3)(SFC,
4/17/03, p.A10)
2001 In Portland, Oregon, the
Metropolitan Area Express (MAX), a light rail system, extended
operations from downtown to the airport. This was the first train to
the plane on the west coast.
(WSJ, 12/2/99, p.A1)(Econ, 9/2/06, p.28)
2002 Jan 1, No. 2 Oregon defeated
No. 3 Colorado 38-16 in the Fiesta Bowl.
(AP, 1/1/03)
2002 Jan 9, Ashley Pond (12) was
last seen in Oregon City, 20 miles south of Portland, Or. Miranda
Gaddis (13) disappeared from the same neighborhood on Mar 8. The
remains of Gaddis were found Aug 24 behind the house of Ward Weaver
(39), who lived across the street. Weaver was arrested Aug 13 for the
rape of his 19-year-old son’s girlfriend. Pond’s remains were found Aug
25.
(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.A7)(SFC, 8/26/02, p.A3)(SFC,
8/27/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 13, Christian Michael
Longo (27), wanted on charges of killing his wife and three children in
2001 and dumping their bodies into coastal waters off Oregon, was
arrested in Mexico. Longo had fled the US and impersonated journalist
Michael Finkel while abroad. Finkel was fired by the NY Times Magazine
in February for creating a composite character in a story on child
slavery in West Africa. In 2005 Finkel authored “True Story: Murder,
Memoir, Mea Culpa.”
(SFC, 1/15/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/13/03)(SSFC, 6/5/05, p.B2)
2002 Feb 6, The Oregon Health
Division released statistics on assisted suicides for last year. 44
people received prescriptions for lethal medication but only 21
actually took their lives.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.A3)
2002 ~Feb 23, Robert Bryant (37)
shot to death his wife and 4 children (9-15) and them himself at their
home in McInnville, Oregon. The bodies were not found until Mar 14.
(SFC, 3/16/02, p.A6)
2002 Apr 12, Beth O’Brien (22)
fell from a tree platform in the Eagle Creek area of Mount Hood while
protesting a timber sale.
(SSFC, 4/14/02, p.A14)
2002 Apr 15, Damon Knight (79),
science fiction writer and editor, died in Eugene. His work included
“The Futurians” (1977), a memoir of a group of budding writers that
included Asimov, Wollheim, Pohl and himself. His 1950 story “To Serve
Man” was made into a Twilight Zone episode in 1962.
(SFC, 4/19/02, p.A27)
2002 Apr 17, US District Judge
Robert Jones upheld Oregon’s assisted-suicide law and said that
Attorney General John Ashcroft should not “determine the legitimacy” of
medical acts.
(SFC, 4/18/02, p.A3)
2002 May 21, The Bush
administration said it will allow new mining to resume on nearly 1
million acres of the Siskiyou region.
(SFC, 5/22/02, p.A7)
2002 May 30, In Oregon 3 of 9
hikers were killed while climbing Mt. Hood. A Pave Hawk rescue
helicopter crashed in an attempt to rescue the climbers.
(WSJ, 5/31/02, p.A1)(SFC, 5/31/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 21, In south central
Oregon an 87,000 acre wildfire burned along a mile-long front.
(SFC, 7/22/02, p.A3)
2002 Aug 8, In Oregon the Florence
and Sour Biscuit fires merged and formed the largest active fire in the
nation. The fire soon covered 308,000 acres.
(SFC, 8/9/02, p.A9)(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A5)
2002 Aug 22, In Oregon President
Bush proposed to end the government's "hands-off" policy in national
forests and ease logging restrictions in fire-prone areas.
(WSJ, 8/23/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/22/03)
2002 Aug 24, In Oregon City, Ore.,
the FBI uncovered human remains in an outbuilding behind the house of
Ward Weaver III, a suspect in the case of two missing girls who lived
across the street. Authorities recovered the remains of Ashley Pond
(12) and Miranda Gaddis (13). In 2004 Weaver pleaded guilty to
aggravated murder and no contest to other charges of sexual abuse. A
plea bargain allowed him to avoid the death penalty and he was
sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison.
(AP,
8/24/07)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Weaver_III)
2002 Sep 23, The Bush
administration asked a federal appeals court to strike down Oregon’s
assisted-suicide law.
(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 27, The federal
government increased the flow of water into the Klamath River from
Upper Klamath Lake in Oregon following the die-off of some 12,000
salmon in northern California.
(SFC, 9/28/02, p.A2)
2002 Dec 21, In Oregon the bodies
of Renee Morris (31), Bryant (10), Alexis (8), and Jonathan (4), were
found by hunters in Tillamook State Forest. Edward Morris (37) was
arrested Jan 4.
(SSFC, 1/5/03, p.A7)
2003 Jan 28, Oregon voters
defeated a proposed 3-year income tax hike designed to forestall $310
million in cuts to schools and social services.
(SFC, 1/29/03, p.A3)
2003 Mar, Wesley Howard (87), an
odd loner, died in Medford. He bequeathed his estate, valued over $11
million, to create a youth sports park on his 68-acre farm.
(SFC, 8/22/03, p.A2)
2003 Jun 14, Off the northern
Oregon coast a large wave flipped over Taki-Tooo, a charter fishing
boat carrying 19 people, killing at least nine; eight survived by
swimming to shore.
(AP, 6/15/04)
2003 Aug 24, In Oregon 8
firefighters died as their van hit a tractor-trailer while returning
from fighting a wildfire in Idaho.
(WSJ, 8/25/03, p.A1)
2004 Feb 3, Oregon voters rejected
$800 million in tax increases setting up a new round of cuts in
services.
(WSJ, 2/4/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 3, In Portland, Ore.,
hundreds of gay couples applied for marriage licenses following an
overnight policy change by county commissioners.
(SFC, 3/04/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 20, An Oregon judge
ordered a halt to same sex marriages. He also ordered official
recognition of marriages already held in Multnomah County.
(SFC, 4/21/04, p.A3)
2004 May 6, The FBI arrested
Oregon lawyer Brandon Mayfield as part of the investigation into the
Madrid train bombings; however, the bureau later said Mayfield's arrest
had been a mistake, and apologized. In 2006 the US government agreed to
pay Mayfield $2 million to settle a lawsuit.
(AP, 5/6/05)(SFC, 11/30/06, p.A7)
2004 May 24, Brooke Wilberger (19)
vanished from an apartment in Corvallis, Ore. In 2009 Joel Courtney
(43) pleaded guilty to her murder and revealed the location of her
remains. He was sentenced to life in prison.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Wilberger)(SFC,
9/22/09, p.A5)
2004 Jul 6, The Archdiocese of
Portland, Ore., filed for bankruptcy due to the financial impact of
sexual abuse claims.
(SFC, 7/7/04, p.A3)
2004 Nov, Voters in Oregon
approved ballot measure 37, which gave people who owned land before
1973 the right to ask officials to waive land use rules or pay owners
for lost value.
(Econ, 10/22/05, p.35)
2005 Mar 18, The film “The Ring
Two” opened. It featured Astoria, Oregon, a seaside town of about
10,000 people.
(SSFC, 3/20/05, p.D16)
2005 Apr 14, The Oregon Supreme
Court nullified nearly 3,000 marriage licenses issued in 2004 to
same-sex couples in Portland’s Multnomah County.
(SFC, 4/15/05, p.A6)
2005 Jun 28, Dr. Donald Clark
(b.1910), former president of California’s San Jose State Univ.
(1964-1969) and Univ. of Oregon (c1970-1975), died in Eugene, Ore. In
1951 Clark authored “The Life of Matthew Simpson,” a biography of the
Methodist bishop and orator.
(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.A25)
2005 Aug 1, The Oregon state
legislature passed the nation’s strictest anti-methamphetamine measure
requiring prescriptions for many over-the-counter cold medications.
Gov. Ted Kulongoski was expected to sign it within 5-10 days. It posed
a challenge to the FDA in regulating medicines.
(WSJ, 8/1/05, p.A3)
2005 Dec 8, US federal prosecutors
announced six arrests of eco-sabotage suspects following a 9-year
investigation in 4 arson cases in Oregon dating to 1998 and 2001 and a
toppled power line in Bend, Oregon in 1999.
(SFC, 12/9/05, p.A6)
2005 Dec 30, A bankruptcy judge
ruled that an Oregon archdiocese cannot shield parish assets to settle
compensation cases of sex-abuse victims.
(WSJ, 12/31/05, p.A1)
2005 Actual burning of chemical
weapons at Umatilla was scheduled to be completed, just in time to meet
a congressional deadline.
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.A18)
2006 Jan 17, The US Supreme Court
told the Justice Department to butt out of the private decisions of
terminally ill patients in Oregon, the only state that specifically
allows physician-assisted suicide. The court ruled 6-3 ruling that
Congress hadn't given the Justice Department authority to take such
action.
(AP, 1/18/06)
2006 Apr 28, The US government
adopted a federal advisory council’s recommendations for deep cuts to
the 2006 salmon season for California and Oregon.
(SFC, 4/29/06, p.B1)
2006 May 21, In Oregon demolition
crews destroyed the 499-foot cooling tower of the Trojan Nuclear Power
Plant. Demolition of the containment dome was scheduled in 2008.
(SFC, 5/22/06, p.A2)
2006 Aug 6, Scientists said a
recurring "dead zone" of low-oxygen water off the Oregon coast is
larger than in previous years and may be triggered by global warming.
They concluded that it is being caused by explosive blooms of tiny
plants known as phytoplankton, which die and sink to the bottom, then
are eaten by bacteria which use up the oxygen in the water. The zone
first appeared in 2002 and by 2006 covered some 1,235 square miles, an
area about the size of Rhode Island.
(AP, 8/6/06)(SSFC, 8/6/06, p.A3)
2006 Dec 4, In Oregon rescuers
found SF residents Kati Kim and her 2 daughters near Grants Pass. They
had been missing for 9 days while on a road trip. James Kim, who went
to seek help on Dec 2, was still missing.
(SFC, 12/5/06, p.A1)
2006 Dec 6, James Kim, a San
Francisco man who struck out alone to find help for his family after
their car got stuck on a snowy, remote road in Oregon was found dead,
bringing an end to what authorities called an extraordinary effort to
stay alive.
(AP, 12/7/06)
2006 Dec 15, About 1.5 million
homes and businesses in Washington and Oregon had no power after
howling windstorms and heavy rains caused at least three deaths, closed
two major bridges and sparked flooding.
(AP, 12/15/06)
2006 Dec 16, Residents of the US
Pacific Northwest struggled to stay warm after the worst windstorm in
more than a decade knocked out power to more than 1.5 million homes and
businesses. The storm killed at least 14 people, including 6 from
carbon monoxide.
(AP, 12/16/06)(WSJ, 12/19/06, p.A1)
2006 Dec 17, Kelly James of
Dallas, one of 3 missing climbers, was found dead in a snow cave on
Mount Hood.
(AP, 12/17/06)
2006 Millions of bees began
disappearing in the Fall across the US and Western Europe in what came
to be called “colony collapse disorder.” In 2007 beekeepers in Oregon
said they had not observed any losses.
(SFC, 4/14/07, p.B6)
2007 Jan 27, In Oregon the new $57
million Portland Aerial Tram officially began operations. Two
78-passenger cabins carried commuters from the Banks of the Willamette
to the campus of the Oregon Health and Sciences Univ. on Marquam Hill.
(SFC, 1/29/07, p.A4)
2007 Feb 13, Heather MacAllister
(37), creator of the Fat Bottom Revue burlesque act in SF, died in
Portland, Ore., through assisted suicide after a battle with ovarian
cancer.
(SFC, 2/26/07, p.B1)
2007 Apr 7, In Oregon 15 libraries
in Jackson were due to close following the loss of $7 million in
federal funding.
(SSFC, 3/4/07, p.A1)
2007 May 7, Scientists testing the
beds of streams around Portland, Oregon, found the residue of the
region's medicine cabinets and coffee shops. The list of compounds
includes many known by such names as Prozac, Tagamet, Benadryl,
Micatin, and caffeine.
(AP, 5/8/07)
2007 May 15, Voters in southern
Oregon’s Jackson County defeated a property tax measure to prop up the
county’s 15 public libraries.
(SFC, 5/17/07, p.A5)
2007 Jul 1, In Oregon the bodies
of David Cheryl Gibbs of the SF Bay Area and priest David Schwartz of
Garden Grove, Ca., last seen on June 8, were found in the wreckage of
their car 60 miles west of Portland. A motorist reported the accident
to 911 on June 8, but emergency crews failed to find the wreck.
(SFC, 7/2/07, p.A1)(SFC, 7/3/07, p.B5)
2007 Jul 7, In Oregon Kent Couch
(47) in his lawn chair with some snacks and a parachute rose to the sky
under 105 large helium balloons. Nearly 9 hours later the gas station
owner came back to earth in a farmer's field near Union, 193 miles from
home. In September he had gotten off the ground for six hours.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Oct 8, Thad Starr of Pleasant
Hill, Oregon, won the 34th annual pumpkin competition in Half Moon Bay
with his 1,524 pound squash. The world record was set this year by Joe
Jutras of Rhode Island with a 1,689-pound squash.
(SFC, 10/9/07, p.B1)
2007 Oct 20, Peg Bracken (89),
author of the "I Hate to Cook Book," died in Portland, Ore.
(AP, 10/20/08)
2007 Nov 14, A US-led team from
Oregon said they had created the world's first cloned embryo from a
monkey, in work that could spur cloning of human cells for use in
medical research.
(AFP, 11/14/07)(WSJ, 11/15/07, p.A1)
2007 Nov 18, The Jesuit order of
the Roman Catholic Church in Oregon agreed to pay $50 million to 110
Eskimos to settle claims of sexual abuse in Alaska.
(SFC, 11/19/07, p.A3)(Reuters, 11/19/07)
2007 Nov 28, Joseph Hokai Tang
(28), musician and violin dealer, was arrested for fraud following a
performance in Eugene, Oregon. In 2008 he pleaded guilty to 10 fraud
counts and admitted to bilking at least 120 people out of $400,000
worth of instruments. In 2008 he was sentenced in SF District Court to
37 months in prison.
(SFC, 5/12/08, p.A1)(SFC, 10/21/08, p.B1)
2007 Dec 4, The governors of
Washington and Oregon declared states of emergency after a severe storm
smacked the region with hurricane-force winds and several inches of
rain. At least four people were killed by the storm.
(AP, 12/4/07)
2008 Jan 4, Flights were grounded
and trucks overturned in Northern California as wind gusted to 80 mph
during the second wave of the arctic storm that has sent trees crashing
onto houses, cars and roads. Hundreds of thousands of customers lost
power from central California into Oregon and Washington. An estimated
1.9-2.1 million PG&E customers lost power.
(AP, 1/5/08)(SFC, 1/8/08, p.A1)
2008 May 1, The National Marine
Fishery Service announced a ban on fishing for chinook salmon in the
ocean off California and most of Oregon.
(SFC, 5/2/08, p.B2)
2008 Jun 17, Neil Beagley (16)
died in Oregon of complications from a urinary tract blockage. In 2010
a jury found parents Jeff and Marci Beagley, followers of Christ Church
in Oregon City, guilty of criminally negligent homicide for praying
over their ill son instead of seeking medical help. On March 8, 2010,
Jeff and Marci Beagley were each sentenced to 16 months in prison on
charges of criminally negligent homicide.
(SFC, 2/3/10, p.A8)(SFC, 3/9/10, p.A4)
2008 Jul 5, Kent Couch (48), a gas
station owner, flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons
more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert, landing in a field in
Idaho. He used his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth.
(AP, 7/6/08)(www.couchballoons.com/)
2008 Aug 3, In Gearhart, Oregon, a
small plane crashed into a seaside house killing 2 people aboard and 2
children in the vacation home.
(SFC, 8/5/08, p.A3)
2008 Aug 27, In Mexico a
38-year-old man from Oregon was arrested in San Jose del Cabo following
a fight at an apartment complex. He died in jail hours later. On Aug 31
six Mexican officers placed under house arrest on suspicion of
homicide.
(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 15, In Oaxaca, Mexico,
Omar Yoguez Singu (32) allegedly had consensual sex with Marcella Grace
Eiler (20) of Eugene, Oregon. He then killed her with a machete after
an argument. Her badly decomposed body was found Sep 24 in a shack 80
miles south of Oaxaca City. Friends of Singu beat him up after he
confessed to the crime and on Sep 24 turned him over to police.
(AP, 9/28/08)
2008 Sep 17, The Bush
administration released $100 million in disaster relief to West coast
salmon fisherman, $70 million less that was approved by Congress. About
$63 million will go to California, $25 million to Oregon and $12
million to Washington state.
(SFC, 9/18/08, p.A8)
2008 Oct 13, In Half Moon
Bay, Ca., Thad Starr of Pleasant Hill, Ore., won the 35th annual
Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. His 1,528 pumpkin beat
the record he set last year by 4 pounds.
(SFC, 10/14/08, p.B3)
2008 Nov 1, Members of the
Machinists Union, representing some 27,000 workers in Washington,
Oregon, and Kansas, ratified a new contract with the Boeing Co. ending
an 8-week strike.
(SSFC, 11/2/08, p.A4)
2008 Nov 4, Oregon’s GOP Sen.
Smith lost to Democrat Jeff Merkley, giving the Democrats at least 57
Senate votes in 2009.
(WSJ, 11/6/08, p.A1)
2008 Nov 12, Mitch Mitchell (61),
English drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s
and the group's last surviving member, was found dead in his hotel room
in Portland, Oregon, the last stop on the West Coast part of a tour.
(AP, 11/13/08)(SFC, 11/13/08, p.B4)
2008 Dec 12, In Woodburn, Oregon,
a bomb exploded inside a branch of the West Coast Bank, killing a
police officer and a state bomb disposal technician. Police arrested
Joshua A. Turnidge (32), a steelworker, in Salem on Dec 14. Joshua’s
father, Bruce Turnidge (57), was also soon arrested and charged with
the bombing.
(AP, 12/13/08)(SSFC, 12/14/08, p.A6)(SFC, 12/15/08,
p.A3)(SFC, 12/16/08, p.A4)(WSJ, 12/27/08, p.A2)
2008 Dec 28, Thomas Boklund
(b.1939), former head of Oregon Steel Mills Inc., died. In 2007 the
company merged with Russia’s Evraz Group SA in a deal valued at $2.35
billion.
(WSJ, 1/31/09, p.A4)
2009 Jan 8, Flooding in the US
Pacific Northwest led to mudslides and avalanches and closed 20 miles
of I-5 between Olympia, Wa., and the Oregon line.
(SFC, 1/9/09, p.A2)
2009 Jan 21, In Portland, Oregon,
officials said they would begin a criminal investigation into newly
elected Mayor Sam Adams (45), who admitted shortly after taking office
on January 1 that he had lied during his campaign about a sexual
relationship with a much younger gay man.
(WSJ, 1/24/09, p.A4)
2009 Mar 12, The Pacific Fishery
Management Council agreed to extend for a 2nd year the fishing ban of
chinook salmon in California and Oregon.
(SFC, 3/13/09, p.B1)
2009 May 12, A federal jury in New
York convicted Oussama Kassir, a Lebanese-born Swede, of plotting to
help Al-Qaida recruit for a weapons training post in Bly, Oregon in
1999 and for distributing terrorist training manuals over the Internet.
(SFC, 5/13/09, p.A4)
2009 Nov 13, The United States'
first marijuana cafe opened in Portland, Oregon, posing an early test
of the Obama administration's move to relax policing of medical use of
the drug.
(AP, 11/14/09)
2009 Nov 27, In China Justin
Franchi Solondz, an American man wanted in the US on terrorism charges,
was sentenced in Dali city, Yunnan province, for making illegal drugs.
The FBI office in Seattle listed Solondz among its "most wanted."
Charges in 2006 related to his alleged role in 2001 with the Earth
Liberation Front. Solondz was accused of having a role in the
destruction of a horticulture center at the University of Washington,
as well as the destruction of several buildings in Oregon.
(AP, 11/28/09)
2010 Jan 26, Oregon voters
approved Measures 66 and 67, passed by their legislature last year,
endorsing higher taxes on businesses and the rich amid the current
economic slump.
(SFC, 1/28/10, p.A8)(Econ, 1/30/10, p.36)
2010 Feb 12, In Oregon Jeffrey
Grahn (46), an off-duty sheriff’s sergeant, shot and killed his wife
and another woman before fatally shooting himself at a bar in Gresham.
(SSFC, 2/14/10, p.A8)
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