Created April, 2010 by Barbara Kuhn, Chair, WACT

1875

City of Tacoma is incorporated.

1910

March 10 - William Boeing purchases Seattle shipyard property to build first airplane factory hangar.

1918

Tacoma became an official U. S. Port of Entry.

March 1 - National Association of World Affairs Councils (now named World Affairs Councils of America) was founded and has grown to become the United States' largest non-profit international affairs organization.

1929 -1939

Great Depression

1936

March 25 - In an address before the annual meeting of the Washington World Affairs Council held in Tacoma, Ben H. Kiser, well-known Spokane economist, spoke on "The Principle of Reciprocal Trade "with special reference to Canadian-American relations.

1941

October 12 - Addressing the Tacoma World Affairs Council, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins sees in the International Labor Organization an instrument "of great possibilities" in bringing about economic adjustment in the post-war world.