The 1999 Seattle WTO protests,sometimes referred to as the Battle of Seattle,were a series of anti-globalization protests surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999,where members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle,Washington on November 30,1999. The Conference was to be the launch of a new millennial round of trade negotiations.
Lee Patrick Brown is an American politician,criminologist and businessman;in 1997 he was the first African-American to be elected mayor of Houston,Texas. He was re-elected twice to serve the maximum of three terms from 1998 to 2004.
In 1994,a court in Singapore sentenced an American teenager,Michael Fay,to be lashed six times with a cane for violating the Vandalism Act. This caused a temporary strain in relations between Singapore and the United States.
Greenwood is a neighborhood in north central Seattle,Washington,United States. The intersection of Greenwood Avenue North and North 85th Street is the commercial center. Greenwood is known for its numerous bars,restaurants,coffee houses,theatres and specialty stores. Greenwood's main thoroughfares are Greenwood Avenue North and N. 85th streets.
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) is the principal law enforcement agency of the city of Seattle,Washington,United States. It is responsible for the whole city except for the campus of the University of Washington.
Paul Schell was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 50th mayor of Seattle,Washington,from 1998 to 2002.
Sigma Pi (ΣΠ) is a collegiate fraternity with 232 chapters at American universities. As of 2021,it had more than 5,000 undergraduate members and over 118,000 alumni. The fraternity is headquartered in Nashville,Tennessee.
Ronald Anstuther Davidson Sr was an American screenwriter,story editor and associate producer.
Arthur Bernard Langlie was an American politician who served as the mayor of Seattle,Washington and was the 12th and 14th governor of the U.S. state of Washington from 1941 to 1945 and 1949 to 1957. He is the only mayor of Seattle to be elected Governor of Washington,as well as the only Governor in the state's history to serve non-consecutive terms.
Edwin Leard Mechem was an American attorney,politician,and jurist from New Mexico. He served as the 15th,17th,and 19th governor of New Mexico,the first person born in the 20th century to become the state's governor,as well as the first person born in New Mexico after statehood to ascend to the office. During his final term as governor,Mechem appointed himself as a United States Senator,pursuant to the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. During his tenure,he was one of five non-Southern Republicans in the Senate to vote against the Civil Rights Act 1964. He was defeated in his bid to keep his senate seat in the 1964 United States Senate election in New Mexico. He later served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico.
Gordon Stanley Clinton was the 43rd mayor of Seattle. After defeating incumbent Mayor Allen Pomeroy in a close election in 1956,Clinton served two terms,from 1956 to 1964. Upon taking office,Clinton established the Metropolitan Problems Advisory Committee,headed by local community leader John Ellis,to suggest approaches to dealing with chronic local and regional problems. During his administration,Clinton tackled issues as divergent as regional governance,international trade,and discrimination in housing. He was a Republican.
The Seattle windshield pitting epidemic is a phenomenon which affected Bellingham,Seattle,and other communities of Washington state in April 1954;it is considered an example of mass panic. It was characterized by widespread observation of previously unnoticed windshield holes,pits and dings,leading residents to believe that a common causative agent was at work. It was originally thought to be the work of vandals,but the rate of pitting was so great that residents began to attribute it to everything from sand flea eggs to nuclear bomb testing.
Hiram C. Gill was an American lawyer and two-time Mayor of Seattle,Washington,identified with the "open city" politics that advocated toleration of prostitution,alcohol,and gambling.
Bruce Allen Harrell is an American politician and attorney serving as the 57th and current mayor of Seattle,Washington. He was a member of the Seattle City Council from 2008 to 2020. From 2016 to 2020,he was president of the city council. He was acting mayor of Seattle from September 13 to 18,2017. He was elected mayor in his own right in the 2021 Seattle mayoral election,becoming the city's second Black mayor,and its first African-Asian American mayor.
Michael McGinn is an American lawyer and politician. He served as mayor of the city of Seattle,Washington,and is a neighborhood activist and a former State Chair of the Sierra Club.
Jenny Anne Durkan is an American attorney,former federal prosecutor,and politician who served as the 56th mayor of Seattle,Washington. She is the daughter of Martin Durkan. Durkan is a member of the Democratic Party. After earning her Juris Doctor from University of Washington School of Law in 1985,Durkan began practicing law as a criminal defense lawyer and civil litigator. In October 2009,President Barack Obama appointed her United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington. She held that position until September 2014.
The murder of Timothy Brenton occurred on October 31,2009,in the Central District of Seattle,Washington,United States. Timothy Quinn Brenton,an officer with the Seattle Police Department (SPD),was seated in a parked patrol car with another officer discussing a traffic stop when a gunman stopped his vehicle alongside the patrol car,opened fire on both officers,and fled the scene. Brenton died at the scene and his partner sustained minor injuries. One week later,as a public memorial service for Brenton was being held at KeyArena,the gunman was seriously wounded and apprehended after being shot by police officers in Tukwila.
Ralph W. Munn was an eminent figure in the field of American and international library and information science. Recognized by the journal American Libraries as one of "100 of the most important leaders we had in the 20th century",and described as an "administrator,educator,and author ... known for his fairness,clarity,and grace",he was also widely known within the profession as "the father of the modern library movement in Australia and New Zealand".
The King assassination riots,also known as the Holy Week Uprising,were a wave of civil disturbance which swept across the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4,1968. Some of the biggest riots took place in Washington,D.C.,Baltimore,Chicago,and Kansas City.
The city of Seattle experienced protests over the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and 2021. Beginning on May 29,2020,demonstrators took to the streets throughout the city for marches and sit-ins,often of a peaceful nature but which also devolved into riots. Participants expressed opposition to systemic racism,police brutality and violence against people of color.
