Portal:Oregon/Selected anniversaries

January 3, 1914, martial law is implemented in Copperfield by Fern Hobbs.
January 7, 1996, the orca Keiko from the Free Willy movies arrives at the Oregon Coast Aquarium.
January 9, 1880, a powerful windstorm spreads damage in Northwest Oregon.
January 13, 1837, pioneers in the Willamette Valley form the Willamette Cattle Company.
January 17, 1989, Director of the Oregon Department of Corrections, Michael Francke, is murdered.
January 23, 1990, the Happy Face Killer murders his first known victim near Portland.
January 24, 1851, the Oregon Territorial Legislature creates the now defunct Umpqua County.
January 28, 1919, businessman Henry Pittock, longtime publisher of The Oregonian newspaper, dies at the age of 82.

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February 4, 1999, near Coos Bay the New Carissa ran aground during a storm on the Pacific Ocean.
February 5, 1846, the first edition of the Oregon Spectator is published, becoming the first American newspaper to be published west of the Rocky Mountains.
February 8, 1851, the city of Portland is incorporated.
February 14, 1859, Oregon becomes the 33rd state of the Union.
February 14, 1917, the Interstate Bridge is opened over the Columbia River, linking Portland to Vancouver, Washington.
February 14, 1994, architect Pietro Belluschi dies.
February 25, 1880, the Chemawa Indian School opened in Forest Grove.
February 27, 1993, the Spruce Goose arrives in McMinnville, where it will be housed in a museum.

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March 3, 1849, governor Joseph Lane dissolves Provisional Government and implements government of the Oregon Territory.
March 5, 1949, political reformer William Simon U'Ren dies at the age of 90.
March 6, 1961, Oregon State College becomes Oregon State University.
March 20, 1916, the Portland Rosebuds became the first U.S. based ice hockey team to play for the Stanley Cup.
March 23, 1806, the Lewis and Clark Expedition leaves Fort Clatsop near present day Astoria.
March 25, 1993, the "Spring Break Quake" damages the Oregon State Capitol.
March 26, 1955, the airliner for Pan Am Flight 845/26 crashes off the Oregon Coast after leaving Portland International Airport.
March 27, 1939, at the first NCAA basketball tournament, the Oregon Ducks win the first championship.

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April 1, 1982, award-winning advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy is established in Portland.
April 2, 1907, the Mail Tribune newspaper is founded in Medford.
April 6, 1954, native Oregonian James Alger Fee is nominated to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
April 14, 2005, the Oregon Supreme Court rules in Li & Kennedy vs. State of Oregon that Multnomah County could not issue same-sex marriage licenses.
April 14, 1881, the Oregon Short Line Railroad is established.
April 18, 1877, former state senate president and the first doctor and teacher in Portland, Ralph Wilcox, commits suicide while at work at the federal court in Portland.
April 21, 1865, the first post office in the Eastern Oregon city of Pendleton opens.
April 21, 1859, the first state convention of the Oregon Republican Party is held in Salem.

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May 1, 1839, the Peoria Party sets out on the Oregon Trail for the Oregon Country.
May 2, 1843, meetings at Champoeg create Provisional Government of Oregon.
May 9, 1850, member of the First Executive Committee and namesake of Hillsboro, David Hill dies.
May 11, 1792, Capt. Gray enters the Columbia River, becoming the first Euro-American to accomplish this feat.
May 18, 2007, tire king Les Schwab, founder of Les Schwab Tire Centers, dies at the age of 89 in Prineville.
May 21, 1998, Kip Kinkel goes on a shooting spree at Thurston High School in Springfield.
May 22, 1902, Crater Lake National Park is established as Oregon's only National Park.
May 30, 1978, sportswear company Blue Ribbon Sports officially changes its name to Nike.

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June 1, 1905, the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens.
June 3, 1850, five Cayuse tribal members are hung in Oregon City to conclude the Cayuse War that began with the Whitman massacre.
June 5, 1811, the ship Tonquin leaves the mouth of the Columbia River after establishing Fort Astoria.
June 5, 1977, the Portland Trail Blazers won Game 6 of the NBA Finals to win the series 4-2 and win their first NBA Championship.
June 15, 1846, the Oregon Treaty is signed, resolving the Oregon Question.
June 21, 1942, a Japanese submarine attacked Fort Stevens near the mouth of the Columbia River.
June 24, 1992, the NBA Draft is held in Portland.
June 24, 2007, the Oregon State Beavers baseball team won their second consecutive national championship.

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July 2, 1935, Ashland hosts the first Oregon Shakespeare Festival, featuring Twelfth Night.
July 3, 1905, U.S. Senator John H. Mitchell is convicted in the Oregon land fraud scandal.
July 5, 1843, the first Organic Laws of Oregon are passed creating a framework for the Provisional Government.
July 9, 1940, former Oregon Attorney General and longtime President of the University of Oregon, David B. Frohnmayer is born in Medford.
July 12, 2002, the Biscuit Fire starts in Southern Oregon and is not contained until the end of the year.
July 15, 1896, the battleship USS Oregon is commissioned under the command of Captain H. L. Howison.
July 16, 2006, a Hawker Hunter jet crashes after leaving the Oregon International Airshow in Hillsboro.
July 20, 2001, the Portland Streetcar system, the first modern-streetcar system to open in the U.S. since the 1940s, begins operating.
July 28, 1878, former two-time acting governor of the Oregon Territory, George Law Curry dies in Portland.
July 28, 1978, National Lampoon’s Animal House, starring John Belushi, and filmed in Eugene, Cottage Grove and Pleasant Hill, premiers.

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August 5, 1942, businessman Simon Benson of the "Benson Bubblers" fame dies.
August 7, 1958, Alberto Salazar, marathon runner and member of the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame, is born in Cuba.
August 9, 1977, Portland State University alumnus and one-time Portland Trail Blazers forward Ime Udoka is born in Portland.
August 14, 1848, the Oregon Territory is created when President Polk signs a bill passed by Congress.
August 15, 2003, judge Rives Kistler is appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court and becomes the first openly gay justice on the court.
August 17, 1857, the Oregon Constitutional Convention begins meeting in Salem.
August 27, 1966, the Astoria–Megler Bridge opens across the Columbia River, linking Astoria to Washington state.
August 28, 1970, Vortex I, a state-sponsored rock music festival, begins in Clackamas County.

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September 3, 1839, the first member of the Peoria Party arrives in the Oregon Country.
September 5, 1986, the MAX light rail system opens, with a line between Portland and Gresham.
September 6, 1996, convicted killer Douglas Wright becomes the first person in Oregon to be executed by lethal injection.
September 6, 1931, the Yaquina Bay Bridge designed by Conde McCullough opens near Newport.
September 9, 1942, Japan bombed Southwestern Oregon with a seaplane launched from a submarine.
September 27, 1974, Portlandia co-star and former Sleater-Kinney member Carrie Brownstein is born.
September 15, 1993, fugitive Kathy Power pleaded guilty to armed robbery and manslaughter after spending 14 years hiding in Oregon.
September 27, 1919, former baseball player Johnny Pesky is born in Portland.

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October 1, 1938, the current Oregon State Capitol building is dedicated with speeches by dignitaries including Franklin D. Roosevelt.
October 2, 1867, Willamette University opens Waller Hall, the oldest college building in the state still in use.
October 4, 2002, the FBI arrests four of the Portland Seven on conspiracy charges for attempting to join Al-Qaeda.
October 4, 1963, All-American at Oregon State and NBA All-Star A. C. Green is born in Portland.
October 5, 1877, Chief Joseph surrenders to General Nelson Appleton Miles after leading the Nez Perce on a strategic retreat out of the Wallowa Valley.
October 12, 1962, the Columbus Day Storm does extensive damage in Western Oregon.
October 25, 1906, the vessel Peter Iredale shipwrecks on the Clatsop Spit where it still rests in what is now a state park.
October 28, 1947, Governor Earl Snell, Oregon Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., and State Senate President Marshall E. Cornett all die in a small plane crash in Southern Oregon.

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November 2, 2004, Oregon voters pass Oregon Ballot Measure 36 which outlawed same-sex marriage in the state.
November 12, 1970, figure skater Tonya Harding is born in Portland.
November 12, 1986, Oregon native Minoru Yasui, namesake for U.S. Supreme Court case Yasui v. United States, dies at the age of 70.
November 12, 2004, several state and federal owned sites in Oregon become part of the Lewis and Clark National and State Historical Parks.
November 15, 1973, the Fremont Bridge in Portland opens.
November 19, 1983, Oregon State University and the University of Oregon tie 0-0 in the annual Civil War football game.
November 24, 1971, skyjacker D. B. Cooper hijacks a Northwest Airlines flight after take-off from Portland International Airport.
November 29, 1847, fifteen missionaries and workers at the Whitman Mission are killed in the Whitman massacre by Native Americans, sparking the Cayuse War.

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December 1, 1969, TriMet replaces Rose City Transit as the provider of mass transit service in Portland.
December 4, 1850, The Oregonian, now the oldest continuously published newspaper on the West Coast, is founded.
December 8, 1876, A. Luelling becomes the first mayor of the city of Hillsboro, located in the Tualatin Valley.
December 12, 1893, former Congressman George K. Shiel dies after a breaking his neck in a fall.
December 14, 1871, Oregon Senator George Henry Williams begins tenure as United States Attorney General.
December 21, 1936, Oregon's first female governor, Barbara Roberts, is born in Corvallis.
December 28, 1978, United Airlines Flight 173 crashed in Portland killing ten onboard the DC-8 aircraft.
December 29, 1855, a fire destroyed the Territorial Capitol building.

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