Hijacker D.B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines
727 over Washington State with $200,000 in ransom. His
whereabouts remains a mystery. The bulk of the money
has never been recovered. The F.B.I. believes Cooper
did not survive the Jump.
The Northwest 727 jet sits at the airport in Seattle during
the hijacking.
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After topping the chart with “Come Softly To Me” in April of 1959,
the Fleetwoods of Olympia, Washington had their second hit on
this date.
The newly finished Vietnam Veterans memorial was opened
to it’s first visitors in Washington, D.C. on this date in 1982.
The Forestry Building under construction in 1907.
Fire destroyed the structure on August 17, 1964.
A new “World Forestry Center” opened to the public on June 5,1971.
The center is located near the Portland Zoo in Washington Park.
