** The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation opens in Seattle.

** The Seattle Seahawks play their first football game.

** The Seattle General Strike ends when Federal troops are summoned by the State of Washington's Attorney General.

** The Seattle SuperSonics win the NBA Championship against the Washington Bullets.

** Wah Mee massacre: 13 people are killed in an attempted robbery in Seattle, Washington.

** The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what later becomes Seattle, Washington.

** Gang of Four ( Seattle ), founders of Minority Executive Directors's Coalition

** Seattle SuperSonics, coached by Lenny Wilkens, won 4 games to 1 over the Washington Bullets for the only finals win in Seattle SuperSonics history.

** Washington Bullets win 4 games to 3 over the Seattle SuperSonics

** Seattle

** Calls / Branding Morning News — Tribune Broadcasting's local morning news show format usually seen on Tribune's CW and Fox affiliates, such as WPIX in New York City, New York ; WGN in Chicago, Illinois ; KTLA in Los Angeles, California ; KCPQ in Seattle, Washington ; and WXIN in Indianapolis, Indiana ; though this format has also been used on non-Tribune owned Fox and CW stations ( e. g. ; Fox 25 Morning News on KOKH in Oklahoma City ) under a more generic title form

** 42 points – Seattle 42, Philadelphia 0 – December 5, ( largest margin of victory by an MNF road team )

** 82 points – Dallas 43, Seattle 39 – December 6,

** Chicago Bulls win 4 games to 2 over the Seattle SuperSonics, after a record-breaking 72-10 regular season.

** Kentucky wins 84-72 over Seattle

** 21 October – Showbox: Seattle, Washington

** 19 September – The Showbox SODO: Seattle, Washington

** Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington

** In Washington, the City of Seattle employs Marshals in their Municipal Court, with the senior officer holding the title of Chief Marshal and the subordinate officers being Deputy Marshals.

** Spans Lake Washington in Washington State, carrying State Route 520 from Seattle to Medina.

** Spans Lake Washington in Washington State, carrying Interstate 90 traffic eastbound from Seattle to Mercer Island.

** Spans Lake Washington in Washington state, carrying Interstate 90 traffic westbound from Mercer Island to Seattle.

** The Seattle SuperSonics, for Fred Brown.

** The Double ( Seattle Mariners ), a specific instance of the above that occurred during the 1995 Major League Baseball season

** Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners use " northwest green " as a secondary color, this is not to be confused with teal as it is more of a dark cyan.

** Tales of Not-so Ancient Mariners: A Marine Technology Review from the MTS Archives ( Summer 2006 )

** Ken Griffey, Jr., Seattle Mariners, OF ( AL )

** Alvin Davis, Seattle Mariners, 2B ( AL )

** colour commentary, supplementing play-by-play commentary with talk not directly about play

** if a player is penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct for actions that occurred during a play ending in a touchdown by that team, but before the goal line was crossed, the touchdown will be nullified.

** FDR: That Man in the White House, a play by Dore Schary about Roosevelt

** Holes ( play ), a 1998 stage adaptation of the novel

** Pipes and drums or pipe bands, composed of musicians who play the Scottish and Irish bagpipes

** Chess Module – Increased the G7400's computing power such that it could play chess, also compatible with G7000

** Richard III ( 1699 play ), a play by Colley Cibber

** Richard III ( 1852 play ), a Shakespeare-inspired French play by Victor Séjour

** Farce – aims at entertaining the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene.

** The Toronto Blue Jays play their first game of baseball against the Chicago White Sox.

** Goalkeeper Derek Foster of Sunderland becomes the youngest-ever player to play in the Football League, aged 15 years and 185 days.

** Start, led by the goalkeeper Nikolai Trusevich, play football against the German Luftwaffe team Flakelf in Nazi-occupied Kiev.

** The American punk rock band The Ramones play their last show.

** The Fantasticks, the world's longest-running musical, opens at New York City's Sullivan Street Playhouse where it will play for 42 years.

** The Pittsburgh Steelers win their first ever post-season NFL game, defeating the Oakland Raiders 13 – 7, on a last second play that becomes known as The Immaculate Reception.

** The premiere of Bertolt Brecht's play In the Jungle ( Im Dickicht ) at the Residenztheater in Munich is interrupted by Nazi demonstrators.

** The Scornful Lady, a comedy stage play written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, is published.

** Antonio García Gutiérrez's play El Trovador is performed for the first time in Madrid, Spain.

** Colley Cibber's play Love's Last Shift is performed at the Theatre Royal.

** Ben-Hur ( play ), a Broadway play