Today in California History (Part 2)
Cities in California: Anaheim - Bakersfield - Berkeley, CA - Fresno - Glendale - Long Beach - Los Angeles - Modesto - Oakland - Pasadena, CA - Riverside - Sacramento - San Bernardino - San Diego - San Francisco - San Jose - Santa Ana - Stockton
Historical Events
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1978-03-22 - Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, SF, dedicated
1978-06-06 - Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
1979-02-03 - Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players
1979-11-14 - California's Don Baylor, wins AL MVP
1981-06-18 - The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.
1981-10-15 - Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads what is thought to be the first audience wave in Oakland, California.
1983-05-12 - Julie Lynne Hayek, (California), crowned 32nd Miss USA
1984-03-22 - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
1984-10-20 - The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California.
1986-04-08 - Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel California, Make his day
1987-04-19 - Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
1988-10-30 - 2 gambling clubs & 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot
1989-03-18 - California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios
1990-05-24 - A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both.
1991-06-26 - Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss
1992-02-07 - Shannon LA Rhea Marketic, 22, (California), crowned 41st Miss USA
1992-04-21 - Robert Alton Harris is put to death in the California Gas Chamber for 3 murders.
1992-04-22 - 6.0 earthquake in California
1993-11-20 - Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
1994-08-16 - Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA
1995-07-20 - The Regents of the University of California vote to end all affirmative action in the UC system by 1997.
1995-09-02 - Southern California begins using new area code 562
1996-12-18 - The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect.
1998-05-04 - A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
1999-03-20 - Legoland California, the first and only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
2000-01-31 - Alaska Airlines flight 261 MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard.
2002-12-18 - 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
2003-05-01 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" on board the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California.
2003-10-07 - Gray Davis is recalled as Governor of California, three years before the official end of his office term. Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor.
2003-10-26 - The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
2003-12-22 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits near San Simeon, California.
2004-02-12 - The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2005-01-10 - A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
2005-01-26 - Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
2005-06-13 - A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
2005-12-03 - XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.
2007-06-24 - The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours.
2008-05-15 - California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
2008-06-17 - First day of legal same-sex marriage in California
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