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1781 Los Angeles
is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de Los Ángeles de Porciuncula (City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula) by a group of 44 Spanish
settlers.
1850 Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.
1902 "Electric Theatre", the first movie theater in the United States
, opens in Los Angeles, California.
1915 The controversial film ''The Birth of a Nation'' by D.W. Griffith premieres (Los Angeles, California).
1924 In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies, reportedly of a heart attack
, in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst
).
1932 1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles
.
1936 The Santa Fe railroad in the United States
inaugurates the all-Pullman ''Super Chief'' passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.
1936 Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam
) begin to transmit electricity
from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1937 Howard Hughes
sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles
to New York City
in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
1947 Explosion at the O'Connor Electro-Plating Co in Los Angeles, California - 17 dead, 100 buildings damaged, 22-foot crater
1949 Los Angeles, California receives its first recorded snow
fall.
1949 The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Denver & Rio Grande Western and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the ''California Zephyr'' passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California as the first train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.
1950 The Mattachine Society founded in Los Angeles
as the first Gay
liberation organization
1952 First official passenger flight over the North Pole
from Los Angeles
to Copenhagen
1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
1957 Three students on a junior high school playground in Pacoima, California are among the eight persons killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet in the skies above the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles
.
1957 Walter O'Malley
, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
1960 U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy
is nominated for U.S. President at the Democratic National Convention
in Los Angeles, California.
1962 In Los Angeles
, the first MLB game is played at Dodger Stadium.
1962 Film actress and sex icon Marilyn Monroe
is found dead in her Los Angeles, California home, after apparently overdosing on sleeping pills.
1963 The Whisky a Go Go night club in Los Angeles
, the first disco in the USA
, is opened.
1965 The Watts Riots begin in Los Angeles, California.
1968 U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy
is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan
. Kennedy dies from his injuries the next day.
1969 In a Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan Sirhan
admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy
.
1969 Members of a cult led by Charles Manson
murder Sharon Tate
, (who was 8 months pregnant), and her friends Abigail Folger
, Wojciech Frykowski, and Jay Sebring at Tate and husband Roman Polanski's home in Los Angeles, California. Steven Parent, leaving from a visit to the Polanskis' caretaker, is also killed. More than 100 stab wounds are found on the victims, except for Parent, who had been shot almost as soon as the Manson Family entered the property.
1970 Social workers in Los Angeles, California take custody of Genie, a girl who had been kept in solitary confinement since her birth.
1971 A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson
and three female followers.
1974 Los Angeles, California police raid Symbionese Liberation Army
headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
1978 The Hillside Strangler, a stealthy serial killer, is on the prowl in Los Angeles
.
1981 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual
men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia
seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (these were the first recognized cases of AIDS
).
1984 The Soviet Union
announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
1989 The Los Angeles, California City Council bans the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons.
1991 An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King
by Los Angeles
police officers.
1991 Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the videotaped March 3, 1991 beating of motorist Rodney King
during an arrest.
1993 Rodney King
testifies at the federal trial of 4 Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating King's civil rights
when they beat him during an arrest.
1994 1994 Northridge Earthquake, magnitude 6.7, hits the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles
at 4:31 a.m.
1994 Nicole Brown Simpson
and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O. J. Simpson
is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.
1996 In Los Angeles, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez are found guilty of first-degree murder for the shotgun killing of their parents.
1997 Ennis Cosby, the only son of actor Bill Cosby
, is killed by a gunman while changing a flat tire in Los Angeles, California.
1997 Mikail Markhasev is arrested in Los Angeles, California and charged with shooting Bill Cosby
's 27-year-old son, Ennis Cosby.
2002 The Alameda Corridor transportation project in Los Angeles, California opens to rail traffic, ceasing operations of through freight trains on the 120-year-old BNSF Harbor Subdivision.
2002 In Los Angeles, California, television
and film
actor Merlin Santana is shot to death while sitting in the passenger seat of a friend's car parked on the 3800 block of Victoria Avenue.
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