Portal:Oregon/Selected anniversaries/April

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.