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1776 Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
1847 Yerba Buena, California
is renamed San Francisco
.
1849 Regular steamboat
service from the west to the east coast of the United States
begins with the arrival of the SS ''California'' in San Francisco Bay
. The ''California'' left New York Harbor
on October 6, 1848, rounded Cape Horn at the tip of South America
, and arrived at San Francisco, California after the 4 month 21 day journey.
1856 the Vigilance Committee founded in San Francisco, California. It lynches two gangsters, arrests most Democratic Party
officials and disbands itself on August 18
1873 The University of California
opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California
1876 An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California via the First Transcontinental Railroad, 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City
.
1892 In San Francisco, California, John Muir
organizes the Sierra Club.
1906 1906 San Francisco earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3000. 225,000-300,000 left homeless. $350 million in damages. The estimated magnitude of the earthquake is 7.8.
following the earthquake on April 18]]
1909 June 9 ? Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York to San Francisco, California.
1911 Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the ''USS Pennsylvania'' stationed in San Francisco
harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship
1916 In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 injuring 40. (Warren Billings and Tom Mooney are later wrongly convicted of it)
1926 In San Francisco, California, a necrophiliac serial killer
named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rape
s his 9th victim, a boardinghouse landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.
1937 In California
, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic creating a vital link between San Francisco
and Marin County. The next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushes a button in Washington, DC signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the Golden Gate Bridge.
1939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens in San Francisco, California
1951 Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty
with Japan
in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
1965 Jefferson Airplane debuts at the Matrix in San Francisco, California and begins to appear there regularly.
1966 The British rock band The Beatles
play their very last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California.
1978 In San Francisco, California, Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated
by former Supervisor Dan White.
1978 Dianne Feinstein succeeds the murdered George Moscone as San Francisco, California's first woman mayor (she serves until January 8, 1988).
2004 Same sex marriage in the United States: San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as an act of civil disobedience
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