Tukwila International Boulevard is a light rail station in Tukwila, Washington, United States. It is located between SeaTac/Airport and Rainier Beach stations on the Red Line from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport to Downtown Seattle. The station consists of two elevated side platforms enclosed within a structure northeast of the interchange of State Route 99 (International Boulevard) and State Route 518. Tukwila International Boulevard station opened on July 18, 2009, on the first day of Central Link service (now part of the Red Line). Trains serve the station twenty hours a day on most days; the headway between trains is six minutes during peak periods, with less frequent service at other times. The station is also served by King County Metro bus routes, including two RapidRide limited-stop bus rapid transit routes, and has 600 parking spaces in two lots.
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American Civil War: Led by Union Army colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, the first formal African-American military unit, spearheaded an assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54th_Massachusetts_Infantry_Regiment
1936:
Nationalist rebels attempted a coup d'état against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War
1984:
Parts of the dismembered body of Swedish prostitute Catrine da Costa were found in Stockholm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Catrine_da_Costa
2014:
Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had previously been found guilty of paying for an underage prostitute, had his conviction overturned on appeal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi_prostitution_trial
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