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1927: Philo Farnsworth transmits world's first electronic
television in Green Street laboratory |
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1937: Golden Gate Bridge completed after four years; world's
longest single-span suspension bridge; week-long fiesta celebrates |
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1939: Warren K. Billings released from Folsom Prison 23 years
after Preparedness Day bombing; not pardoned, sentence only reduced. |
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1941: The Maltese Falcon, classic detective movie based on Dashiell Hammett's book,
directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, filmed in
San Francisco |
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1947: Elmer
Robinson elected Mayor |
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1955: Allen Ginsberg reads poem Howl at Six Gallery; arrested for obscenity |
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1960: 60's begin when House Un-American Activities Committee
(HUAC) holds hearings in San Francisco; police turn fire hoses on
demonstrators in City Hall |
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1962: Giants defeat Dodgers for National League Pennant; lose
World Series to New York Yankees in 7th game |
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1966: 60's continue; anti-Vietnam War demonstrations; Hunters'
Point riots |
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1968:
Serial killer "The Zodiac" begins about thirty-seven murders,
including cab driver in Presidio Heights; sends taunting letters to police
and newspapers; never found |
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1974:
Charles Schwab & Co., country's first discount brokerage, founded; will
pioneer personal computer use and no-fee mutual fund transacations |
1979: Dan White convicted only of second-degree murder,
sentenced to seven years; "White Night" riots destroy city
property, cars |
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1985: After serving less than six years, Dan White commits
suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning |
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1993:
Supervisors vote to ban smoking in workplaces, restaurants, and ballparks |
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1948: San
Francisco's first television broadcast |
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1955: George Christopher elected Mayor |
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1928:
N Streetcar begins service to Sunset District via Sunset tunnel |
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1962:
Voters approve bonds for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), first new urban
transit since Philadelphia, 1907; Bay Bridge converted to all-motor vehicle
traffic |
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1966: High-rise buildings start "Manhattanization" of
downtown San Francisco |
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1986: Propostion M passes; makes protection of historic
buildings city policy |
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1994:
After 218 years as a military base under several governments, the Presidio of
San Francisco becomes part of the Golden Gate National Recreational Area |
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Conservatory of
Flowers, Golden Gate Park |
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1939: Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure
Island; reopens in 1940 |
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1979: Dianne Feinstein elected Mayor, first woman in city
history |
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1949: President
Truman signs bill giving forty-two acres of Fort Funston to San Francisco |
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1956:
San Franciscan Johnny Mathis signs contract with Columbia Records |
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1971: San Francisco becomes mecca for gays and lesbians;
population will be estimated at 150,000 by end of the decade |
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1975:
George Moscone elected Mayor |
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1930: James Rolph elected Governor; Angelo Rossi becomes Mayor |
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1942: Executive Order 9066 of President Roosevelt relocates
thousands of Americans of Japanese descent to concentration camps |
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1987: NAMES Project creates Memorial Quilt in remembrance of
over 41,000 who died of AIDS |
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1967: American Con-servatory Theatre opens; actors will include
Michael Learned, Annette Bening, Marsha Mason, Cicely Tyson |
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1969: Exploratorium, America's first interactive science museum,
opens in the gallery of the rebuilt Palace of Fine Arts |
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Loma
Prieta Earthquake, 1989: damaged apartment |
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Nobel
Prize Winner Joseph Erlanger |
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1963: Congressman John Shelley elected Mayor; Philip Burton,
asseymblyman, elected to Shelley's Congressional seat in 1964 |
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1977:
Gay Freedom Day Parade attracts over 300,000 marchers and spectators; Harvey
Milk, Castro District camera store owner, elected Supervisor, first openly
gay public official in the United States |
1979: Bill Walsh becomes coach of San Francisco 49ers |
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1995:
49ers win second Super Bowl under coach George Siefert, San Francisco native |
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1932: One Man's Family begins on KPO; lasts to 1959, longest-running radio serial
in history |
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1957: State Division of Highways builds Embarca-dero Freeway,
cutting off Ferry Building from Market Street; Herb Caen calls it
"Dambarcadero" |
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1990: Mikhail Gorbachev visits Presidio peace foundation; says
"You people should pay a special tax for living here." |
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1945: San Francisco chosen site of United Nations Conference;
President Truman addresses conference in Opera House; United Nations Charter
signed |
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1951: University
of San Francisco fields one of the finest football teams in college history;
eight players go on to NFL |
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1987: Art Agnos elected Mayor |
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Crowds admire
Golden Gate Bridge |
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1943: Mama's Bank Account, novel by Kathryn Forbes about her Norwegian immigrant
family, published; made into play, movie, television series |
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1972: Congress passes bill, introduced by Philip Burton,
creating Golden Gate National Recreational Area, over 30,000 acres from Point
Reyes to city |
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1980: Muni Metro opens with service on the N-line |
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1995:
Willie L. Brown, Jr., elected Mayor |
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1933: Joe Dimaggio hits safely in 61 straight games in rookie
season with the San Francisco Seals |
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1938: Herb Caen begins It's News to Me, column for the Chronicle; he will write for over 58 years, with time out only for
World War II |
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1964: Carol Doda dances topless at The Condor in the old Barbary
Coast; starts trend |
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1969: Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) made
permanent; restricts filling and development of San Francisco Bay, restores
wetlands |
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1988: In a ceremony at City Lights Bookstore, 12 streets are
renamed for artists and authors; Bierce, Bufano, Dana, Duncan, Hammett,
Kaufman, Kerouac, London, Norris, Rexroth, Saroyan, Twain |
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1967: Summer of Love; hippies hold huge parties, concerts, in
Golden Gate Park; Beatle George Harrison leads walk through Haight-Ashbury |
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1981: Physicians at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH)
observe a strange new syndrome among gay men; lesions, weight loss, fevers;
call it Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) |
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1958: Alfred Hitchcock shoots Vertigo, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak; one of his best
films and one of the best films ever shot in San Francisco |
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May
13, 1960: Police drag demon-strator out City Hall front door |
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1978:
Supervisor Dan White resigns, changes his mind; Mayor Moscone refuses to
re-appoint him, White shoots Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk dead;
Supervisors appoint Dianne Feinstein Mayor |
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1933: Groundbreaking in Crissy Field for Golden Gate Bridge
construction |
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1943: Roger Lapham elected Mayor |
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1991: Supervisors vote to tear down Embarcadero Freeway after
Loma Prieta Earthquake; Ferry Building reconnected with Market Street after
34 years |
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1952: Morrison
Planetarium opens in California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park;
projector is built in the U.S. because of wartime damage to German Zeiss Co. |
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1964: Cable Cars declared National Monument; only moving one |
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1939: Governor Culbert Olson frees Tom Mooney after he serves 23
years in San Quentin for Preparedness Day bombing; huge parade celebrates;
Mooney dies three years later |
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1946: Poet Kenneth Rexroth begins weekly soirees in his home |
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1961: 45 years after the Preparedness Day bombing, Warren
Billings is pardoned by Governor Edmund G. Brown |
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1973: UCSF biochemist & Stanford geneticist develop genetic
engineering; biotechnology industry starts |
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1934:
July 5th, "Black Thursday;" police shoot two men dead during
Inter-national Longshoremen and Warehouseman's Union strike; general strike
follows |
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Golden
Gate International Exposition; Tower of the Sun |
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1944:
Dr. Joseph Erlanger is second graduate of San Francisco's Lowell High to win
Nobel Prize, for Medicine |
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1965: San Francisco Chronicle and Examinercombine printing operations; Examiner absorbs News-Call-Bulletin, becomes afternoon paper; city has only two major
newspapers |
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1970: Golden Gate Park Conservatory made a city, state historial
landmark |
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1940: William Saroyan's play The Time of
Your Life, set in a San Francisco waterfront
saloon, wins Pulitzer Prize |
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1946: San Francisco 49ers play first season, in the All-America
Football Conference |
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1967: Joseph Alioto elected Mayor |
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1982: San Francisco 49ers win first of three Super Bowls with
Bill Walsh as head coach and Joe Montana as quarterback |
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1989: October 17th; 7.1 earthquake, epicenter Loma Prieta,
strikes as the Giants and Oakland A's are about to play third World Series
Game; Bay Bridge is damaged, fires start in Marina District, Embarcadero
Freeway damaged |
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1958: San Francisco Giants, formerly New York Giants, play their
first season in San Francisco |
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1991: Frank Jordan elected Mayor |
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Exploration, Travel |
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Art |
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Romance |
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1953: City Lights
Bookstore opens in North Beach; first paperback bookstore in the United
States |
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Exploration, Travel |
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Art |
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Romance |
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1992:
After rioting in San Francisco after the Rodney King verdict in L. A., Police
Chief Hongisto orders the Bay Times, which had criticized him, removed from
news racks |
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Exploration, Travel |
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Art |
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Romance |
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1935: San Francisco Museum of Art (later Museum of Modern Art)
opens |
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1947: Mayor Lapham announces plan to replace cable cars with
buses; citizen Friedel Klussman organizes ballot measure to save the cable
cars; passes overwhelmingly |
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1965: Promoter Bill Graham stages Fillmore Auditorium concert
featuring Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead; "Psychedelic bands"
begin |
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1983: Ward 86 opens in San Francisco General Hospital for
treatment of AIDS |
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Commerce |
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Literature |
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Journalism |
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Commerce |
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Literature |
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Journalism |
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Commerce |
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Literature |
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Journalism |
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1959: "Freeway Revolt" begins; Supervisors vote to
cancel most freeways planned by State Division of Highways in city |
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Disaster, Violence |
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Music |
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Medicine, Science |
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Disaster, Violence |
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Music |
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Medicine, Science |
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Disaster,
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Medicine & Science |
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Politics, Law |
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Sports |
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Politics, Law |
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Race |
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below, left; Milk, below, right |
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Politics, Law |
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1984: After a two-year refurbishing San Francisco cable cars
resume service in time for Democratic Convention |
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Environment |
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Labor |
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Transportation |
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1954: Joe
DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe are married in San Francisco City Hall |
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Labor |
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1936: San Francisco Bay Bridge opens; carries motor vehicles and
Key System trains |
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Warren
K. Billings, 23 when convicted of the Preparedness Day bombing, celebrates
his pardon at age 68 with lawyer George T. Davis |
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1989: UCSF faculty Harold Varmus and Michael Bishop share Nobel
Prize for Medicine |
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God, I love this
town! - Herb Caen - |
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1965: Hippie era begins when disaffected youths move into
Haight-Ashbury District |
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Better to be
poor in San Francisco than rich in New York |
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When
the San Francisco gets to heaven, he looks around and says "It's nice,
but it isn't San Francisco" |
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Tom Mooney waves
to Market Street crowds |
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Robert F.
Kennedy |
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Herb Caen |
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