1. In 1929, the D'Arcy McNickle Library opened in the University of Oregon, named after the famous Native American writer and historian.

2. On January 15, 1851, the Oregon Territorial Legislature passed the Donation Land Act, a federal law that granted 320 acres of land to settlers in the Oregon Territory.

3. In 1915, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Oregon State Capitol Building was held in Salem, Oregon. It took four years to complete the building, which remains a prominent landmark of the state to this day.

4. On January 15, 1931, the first commercial passenger airline service in Oregon began when Northwest Airways began offering flights between Portland and Seattle.

5. In 1973, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that the state's death penalty was unconstitutional, making Oregon one of the first states in the United States to abolish the death penalty. The decision was later overturned in 1981, but the state again abolished the death penalty in 2019.