San Francisco History Chronology

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1775
Aug 05The 1st Spanish ship, 'San Carlos', enters San Francisco bay.Ref: 5
1776
Jun 29Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay.Ref: 5
Sep 17Along the western coast of North America, a party of 247 Spanish colonists consecrate their newly-founded mission, known as San Francisco.Ref: 5
Oct 09Spanish missionaries dedicated the first mission chapel on the northern CA coast at Yerba Buena. (In 1847, the city which grew up around the mission changed its name to San Francisco.).Ref: 5
1811
Feb 02First Russian settlers land at Bodega Bay near San Francisco and establish Fort Ross fur-trading post.Ref: 5
1819
Dec 20John Geary, 1st Postmaster, 1st Mayor (May 1, 1850) of San Francisco, is born.Ref: 5
1830
Apr 29Adolph Sutro, San Francisco mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels, is born.Ref: 5
1835
Jun 25Pueblo founded with construction of 1st building (start of Yerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco).Ref: 5
1846
Jul 09Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S.Ref: 5
Aug 26W. A. Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (San Francisco).Ref: 5
1847
Jan 03California town of Yerba Buena (population 200) is renamed San Francisco.Ref: 5
Jan 09First San Francisco newspaper published (California Star).Ref: 5
Jan 30Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.Ref: 5
Feb 09First San Francisco newspaper published (California Star).Ref: 5
Aug 02William A. Leidesdorff launches the first steam boat in San Francisco Bay.Ref: 2
1848
Jan 09The first commercial bank in San Francisco is established.Ref: 5
Feb 02The first shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco.Ref: 5
Feb 09First commercial bank in San Francisco established.Ref: 5
Apr 03Thomas Douglas becomes first San Francisco public school teacher.Ref: 5
1849
Feb 28Regular steamboat service to California via Cape Horn arrived in San Francisco for the first time. The SS California left New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, making the trip in four months, 21 days.Ref: 4
Mar 31Colonel John W Geary arrives as first postmaster of San Francisco.Ref: 5
Jul 28"Memmon" is the first clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of NY.Ref: 5
1850
Feb 18California Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties.Ref: 5
Apr 01San Francisco County Government is established.Ref: 5
Apr 15The city of San Francisco is incorporated.Ref: 5
May 01John Geary becomes first San Fransisco mayor.Ref: 5
May 11Work starts on first brick building in San Fransisco.Ref: 5
Jun 14Fire destroys part of San Francisco.Ref: 5
Jul 01At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay.Ref: 5
Nov 06Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (San Francisco Bay) reserved for military use.Ref: 5
1851
Jan 31San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, the first in California, is founded.Ref: 5
May 06The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce is established.Ref: 5
Jun 09San Francisco Committee of Vigilance forms (1st time).Ref: 5
Jun 22Fire destroys part of SF.Ref: 5
1852
Aug 01Black Methodists in SF establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist.Ref: 5
1853
Nov 17Street signs become authorized at San Francisco intersections.Ref: 5
1854
May 27Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Fransisco completed.Ref: 5
1855
Jun 20Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin.Ref: 5
1856
May 152nd San Fransisco Vigilance Committee organized.Ref: 5
1857
Jun 15The San Francisco Water Works is organized.Ref: 5
1858
Oct 09Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco and St. Louis was started. It took 23 days, four hours for that first run.Ref: 4
1859
Mar 01The present (second) seal of San Francisco is adopted.Ref: 5
Apr 12Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of San Francisco incorporates.Ref: 5
Dec 19Grading started for Market Street RR.Ref: 5
1860
May 06San Fransisco Olympic Club, first US athletic club founded.Ref: 5
Jun 07Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad in San Francisco.Ref: 5
Oct 08A telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.Ref: 5
1861
Jul 01First public schoolhouse opens at Washington & Mason St, SF.Ref: 5
1862
Nov 06Direct telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco is established.Ref: 5
1863
Sep 01RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated.Ref: 5
Oct 15Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on the site).Ref: 5
Nov 01Fortifications built on Angel Island (San Francisco Bay) by troops.Ref: 5
1864
Aug 25Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda.Ref: 5
1865
Jan 16San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started (now San Francisco Chronicle)Ref: 5
Apr 24Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF).Ref: 5
1867
Jul 15SF Merchant's Exchange opensRef: 5
Nov 0490 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall.Ref: 5
1868
Apr 18San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed.Ref: 5
Oct 21$3 million damage in San Francisco earthquake.Ref: 10
1869
Jan 18The elegant California Theatre opens in San FranciscoRef: 5
Apr 181st International Cricket Match, held in SF, won by CalifornianRef: 62
Aug 23The first carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in San Francisco, from Boston, after a 16-day rail tripRef: 5
Aug 23James (Sunny Jim) Rolph SF mayor (1912-31), MUNI backer, is born.Ref: 5
Sep 06The 1st westbound train arrives in San FranciscoRef: 5
1870
Mar 14California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible.Ref: 5
Apr 04Golden Gate Park established by City Order #800.Ref: 5
1871
Jan 31Millions of birds fly over western San Francisco, darken the sky.Ref: 5
Mar 28San Francisco Art Association holds opening reception at 430 PineRef: 5
Apr 10William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park officially acceptedRef: 5
Apr 23Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up.Ref: 5
1872
Apr 14San Francisco organizes Bar Association.Ref: 5
Apr 20Bar Association of San Francisco organizedRef: 5
Aug 23The 1st Japanese commercial ship visits San Francisco, carrying tea.Ref: 5
1873
May 23Postal cards sold in San Fransisco for first time.Ref: 5
Aug 01Inventor Andrew S. Hallidie successfully tested a cable car he had designed for the city of San Francisco CA on Clay Street Hill.Ref: 70
Aug 021st trial run of an SF cable car, on Clay Street between Kearny and Jones, downhill all the way, at 4AM, in a test devised by Englishman Andrew Hallidie.Ref: 2
Sep 06Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay StreetRef: 5
1875
Sep 09Lotta's Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated.Ref: 5
Oct 05Palace Hotel on Market Street, SF opens.Ref: 5
1876
Jul 041st public exhibition of electric light in San FranciscoRef: 5
1877
Aug 02San Francisco Public Library opens with 5000 volumesRef: 5
1878
Feb 17First telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones.Ref: 5
1879
Sep 20The U.S. Grants come to San Francisco for an elaborate extended visitRef: 5
1880
Jul 19SF Public Library allows patrons to start borrowing booksRef: 5
Sep 09President Hayes visits San FranciscoRef: 5
1882
Jul 04Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF.Ref: 5
1887
Feb 05Snow falls on San Francisco.Ref: 5
Feb 23Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco.Ref: 5
1889
Aug 02San Francisco, California is invaded by millions of crickets. 
Aug 23The 1st ship-to-shore wireless message is received in the US at San Francisco.Ref: 5
1890
Nov 27First signal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation.Ref: 5
1891
Feb 26First buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park.Ref: 5
Apr 25President Benjamin Harrison visits San FranciscoRef: 5
1892
May 01US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Fransisco Bay.Ref: 5
Jun 04The Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco. (XDG, p 4A, 6/04/2004)Ref: 83
1893
Aug 10Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act.Ref: 5
1894
Jan 27Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park.Ref: 5
Nov 27Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park.Ref: 5
1896
Mar 147000 people gather at San Francisco's Ocean Beach to celebrate the official opening of the Sutro Baths, an extravagant public bathhouse envisioned and developed by the eccentric one-time mayor of San Francisco, Adolph Sutro. Ref 
1898
Jan 01Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of San Francisco BayRef: 5
May 03Camp Merriman established at Presidio (San Fransisco).Ref: 5
May 26San Francisco approves new City Charter, allowing municipal ownership of utiliies (charter effective Jan 1, 1900)Ref: 5
Jul 13SF Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street opensRef: 5
1899
Feb 18San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transportsRef: 62
Jul 01SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of buildingRef: 5
Nov 23First jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco).Ref: 5
1900
Feb 16First Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes 1st issue (Chung Sai Yat Po-San Francisco).Ref: 5
Feb 23Steamer "Rio de Janeiro" sinks in San Francisco Bay.Ref: 5
1901
Mar 15Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race March 16th.Ref: 5
May 12President William McKinley visits San FranciscoRef: 5
Aug 01Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibitedRef: 5
Aug 15Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitrogelatinRef: 5
1902
Feb 20Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco.Ref: 5
Dec 14The Silverton set sail from the Bay Area. The ship was about to lay the first telephone cable between San Francisco and Honolulu. The project was completed by January 1, 1903.Ref: 4
1903
May 14President Theodore Roosevelt visits San FranciscoRef: 5
Jul 25Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes.Ref: 5
Oct 26The "Yerba Buena" is the first Key System ferry to cross San Francisco BayRef: 5
1906
Apr 21San Francisco fire ends.Ref: 10
May 06"Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market St San Fransisco.Ref: 5
Oct 11San Francisco school board orders the segregation of Oriental schoolchildren, inciting Japanese outrage.Ref: 2
Nov 30President Theodore Roosevelt publicly denounces segregation of Japanese schoolchildren in San Francisco.Ref: 2
1907
May 11Bank of San Francisco incorporatedRef: 5
Aug 01Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street in San Francisco.Ref: 5
Sep 07Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire.Ref: 5
1908
May 05Great White Fleet arrives in San Fransisco.Ref: 5
May 23Dirigible explodes over San Fransisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.Ref: 5
Aug 17Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay & Montgomery.Ref: 5
1909
May 22The first San Francisco fireboat, the "David Scannell", is launched.Ref: 5
1911
Jan 05San Francisco has its 1st air meetRef: 5
Jan 31Congress passes resolution naming San Francisco as the site of the celebration of the opening of the Panama CanalRef: 5
Nov 23Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital.Ref: 5
Dec 29San Francisco Symphony is formed.Ref: 5
1912
Jan 01First running of San Francisco's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles/12.3 km).Ref: 5
Dec 28San Francisco Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St. (MUNI was the 1st municipally-owned transit system).Ref: 5
1913
Feb 22Lowell High School, San Francisco opens (on its first campus).Ref: 5
Apr 26Panamá-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco.Ref: 5
Dec 08Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.Ref: 5
1914
Feb 07Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, San Francisco.Ref: 5
Feb 28Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (San Francisco).Ref: 5
Aug 29'Arizonan' is the 1st vessel to arrive in SF via the Panama Canal.Ref: 5
Dec 11Stockton Street Tunnel (San Francisco) completed.Ref: 5
1915
Jan 09Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, San Francisco.Ref: 5
Feb 09Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, San Francisco.Ref: 5
Feb 20President Woodrow Wilson opens the Panama-Pacific Expo in San Francisco to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal.Ref: 2
Feb 21World's Fair in San Francisco opens.Ref: 5
Dec 04Panama-Pacific International Exposition closes in San Francisco CA (Opened February 20 1915).Ref: 5
Dec 28San Francisco City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph.Ref: 5
1916
Oct 04Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for first time.Ref: 5
1917
Feb 15San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic Center) is dedicated.Ref: 5
1920
Jun 05First rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell in San Francisco.Ref: 5
1921
Jan 02DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens.Ref: 5
Dec 31Last San Francisco firehorses retiredRef: 5
1923
Sep 29Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public.Ref: 5
1924
Jan 22KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions.Ref: 5
Oct 11Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (San Francisco).Ref: 5
Nov 11Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (San Francisco).Ref: 5
1925
May 02Kezar Stadium in San Fransisco's Golden Gate Park opens.Ref: 5
1926
Oct 04Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower.Ref: 5
Dec 17KYA-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions.Ref: 5
1927
Jan 15The Dumbarton Bridge opens in San Francisco carrying the first auto traffic across the bay.Ref: 2
May 07San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicatedRef: 5
1928
Apr 15Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf (San Francisco) forms.Ref: 5
1929
Aug 25Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco, headed for Los Angeles after trans-Pacific voyage from TokyoRef: 5
Sep 11San Francisco Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system.Ref: 5
Oct 20Bayshore Highway opens (SF).Ref: 5
Dec 20Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park.Ref: 5
1931
Feb 20Congress allows California to build the Oakland-Bay BridgeRef: 5
1932
Jan 08Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter.Ref: 5
Jun 191st concert given in San Francisco's Stern GroveRef: 5
Oct 15The War Memorial Opera House became the first municipally-owned opera palace -- in San Francisco, CA. Tosca was the first opera presented.Ref: 4
Dec 11San Francisco's coldest day (27ºF) snow falls.Ref: 5
1933
Jan 05Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side.Ref: 5
Feb 26Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field.Ref: 5
Jul 04Work begins on the Oakland Bay BridgeRef: 5
Oct 08Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters.Ref: 5
1934
Mar 04Easter Cross on Mount Davidson (San Francisco) dedicated.Ref: 5
1935
Mar 1436-Folsom becomes first line to use 1-man streetcars.Ref: 5
Oct 06Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coachesRef: 5
Nov 14The Call Bulletin of San Francisco, CA became the first newspaper to run a life-size portrait of a human being. Larry Quinn, a two-day-old baby, was the subject.Ref: 4
1936
Feb 11Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay.Ref: 5
Nov 18The main span of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is joined.Ref: 2
1937
May 27The Golden Gate Bridge, connecting San Francisco and Marin County, CA, is dedicated; 200,000 pedestrians walk across.Ref: 5
Aug 26Pumping to build Treasure Island in SF Bay is finished.Ref: 5
Sep 15WPA extends the L-Taraval streetcar to the SF Zoo (at Sloat Blvd).Ref: 5
1938
Jul 05San Francisco Chronicle introduces column by 22 year-old Herb Caen. (Ends on his death 1/25/97)Ref: 10
1939
Jan 15Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal.Ref: 5
Jan 22Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco CA, is dedicated.Ref: 5
Feb 18Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island.Ref: 5
Oct 02Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF.Ref: 5
Oct 29Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure).Ref: 5
1940
Apr 22The first all-Chinese commercial radio program was broadcast over KSAN radio in San Francisco, CA. Later, KSAN would become a pioneer in playing ‘underground rock’ music.Ref: 4
Oct 06Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in SF.Ref: 5
1941
Mar 31Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San FranciscoRef: 5
Apr 05In San Francisco, Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses.Ref: 5
May 07Cornerstone of Bank of America building at 300 Montgomery laid.Ref: 5
Nov 15Cow Palace opens in San Francisco.Ref: 5
Dec 08San Francisco has 1st blackout, at 6:15PMRef: 5
Dec 09300 Montgomery opens as new Bank of America headquartersRef: 5
1943
Nov 01Dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay areaRef: 5
1944
Dec 17M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St.Ref: 5
1946
Jul 16Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)Ref: 5
1947
Nov 12KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR).Ref: 5
1948
Mar 14The Freedom Train arrives in San FranciscoRef: 5
Dec 22KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco CA (CBS) begins broadcasting.Ref: 5
1949
Jan 22Chinatown telephone exchange closed.Ref: 5
Apr 03KQW-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KCBS.Ref: 5
May 05KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco CA (ABC) begins broadcasting.Ref: 5
Nov 15KRON (Channel 4, San Francisco) signs on, from 7 to 10 PMRef: 5
1951
Feb 16San Francisco City Hall dome fire.Ref: 5
May 27Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Fransisco opens.Ref: 5
Dec 01The Golden Gate Bridge closed because of high windsRef: 5
1952
Aug 26The fluoridation of San Francisco water begins.Ref: 5
Sep 01Sutro Baths (San Francisco) by Cliff House, closes. Opened 3/14/1896Ref: 5
Oct 16Woolworth's at Powell & Market (SF) opens.Ref: 5
Dec 21Broadway Tunnel opens in San Francisco.Ref: 5
1954
Jun 10PBS reaches San Francisco: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcastingRef: 5
Aug 29San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opensRef: 5
1955
Oct 07Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Rexroth and 4 other poets meet in SF garage; beat generation is born.Ref: 10
Oct 13Poetry audience in San Francisco experiences first beat generation poetry: Allen Ginsberg's "Howl.”1962-Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"starts 664 performance run on Broadway.Ref: 10
1956
May 23World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Fransisco.Ref: 5
1957
Jan 179-county commission recommends creation of BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit).Ref: 5
Feb 08San Francisco Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall.Ref: 5
Oct 11Demolition begins on cable car barn at CA & Hyde (San Francisco).Ref: 5
Nov 11Demolition begins on cable car barn at CA & Hyde (San Francisco).Ref: 5
1958
Feb 23Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913).Ref: 5
Mar 03KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco CA (IND) first broadcast.Ref: 5
Apr 02San Francisco columnist Herb Caen coins the word "beatnick"referring to freeloaders.Ref: 10
Apr 11Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated (San Francisco).Ref: 5
Apr 20Buses replace Key System trains in San Francisco area at 3 AM.Ref: 5
May 26Union Square, San Francisco, becomes a state historical landmark.Ref: 2
1959
Oct 11Seals Stadium in San Francisco, demolished.Ref: 5
1960
Jun 29KYA-AM in San Francisco changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks).Ref: 5
Jul 13KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA.Ref: 5
Oct 03SF's White House dept store first to accept BankAmericard.Ref: 5
1961
Jun 14106øF, hottest temperature in San Francisco.Ref: 5
Aug 01New San Francisco Hall of Justice opensRef: 5
Dec 02Wind Bell, journal of San Francisco Zen Center, begins publishing.Ref: 5
1962
Jan 21Snow falls in San Francisco.Ref: 5
Mar 23President John F. Kennedy visits San FranciscoRef: 5
Apr 12San Mateo County withdraws from BART district (San Francisco Bay area).Ref: 5
May 17Marin County withdraws from BART district.Ref: 5
Nov 06BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote.Ref: 5
Dec 10Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years.Ref: 5
Dec 19Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission.Ref: 5
1963
Mar 21The Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay is emptied of its last inmates at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.Ref: 2
Oct 12At 4AM, traffic on Bay Bridge was 1-way on each deckRef: 5
1964
Jun 19A San Francisco Bar introduces topless dancers. (Carol Doda)Ref:77
Oct 01SF cable cars declared a national landmark.Ref: 5
Oct 05SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated.Ref: 5
1965
Nov 01First concert at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco.Ref: 5
1966
Mar 12Pioneer Plaza dedicated [San Francisco].Ref: 5
Jul 01Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART.Ref: 5
Sep 26"Staten Island," first icebreaker to enter SF bay.Ref: 5
1967
Jan 1420,000 attend the Human Be-In, San Francisco.Ref: 5
Apr 07Progressive Rock radio begins-KMPX-FM, San Francisco, with DJ Tom Donahue.Ref: 5
Jul 25Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)Ref: 5
Oct 06Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funeral to mark the end of hippies.Ref: 5
1968
Jan 02KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco CA, (IND) begins broadcasting.Ref: 5
Mar 27Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San FranciscoRef: 5
Apr 18San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice is demolished.Ref: 5
Aug 20First Fillmore West show, SFRef: 62
Sep 19Baby born on Golden Gate BridgeRef: 5
Oct 19Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound carsRef: 5
Dec 28KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in San Francisco CA (IND) first broadcast.Ref: 5
1969
Sep 03A San Francisco Bar introduces bottomless dancers.Ref:77
Oct 15Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicatedRef: 5
Dec 15San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones.Ref: 5
1970
Feb 28Bicycles now permitted to cross Golden Gate BridgeRef: 5
Mar 13San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike.Ref: 5
Mar 26Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark.Ref: 5
Nov 19Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California State Historical LandmarkRef: 5
1971
Jan 27Montgomery St Station, last link in BART, `holed thru'.Ref: 5
Apr 14Fort Point, San Francisco dedicated as a national historic site.Ref: 5
Apr 26San Francisco Lightship replaced by automatic buoyRef: 5
Jul 01Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?).Ref: 5
Jul 02Last Fillmore West show, SFRef: 62
Jul 04Fillmore West closes, SFRef: 62
Oct 16Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in SF.Ref: 5
Nov 27Montgomery St Station, last link in BART, `holed thru'.Ref: 5
Dec 04Shunryu Suzuki Zen teacher, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, dies.Ref: 5
Dec 14Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure.Ref: 5
1972
Sep 11BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont.Ref: 5
Sep 17BART begins passenger service in SF.Ref: 5
Oct 27Golden Gate National Recreation Area createdRef: 5
1973
Aug 10First BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station.Ref: 5
Nov 05BART starts San Francisco-Daly City train shuttle serviceRef: 5
1974
Sep 16BART begins regular transbay service.Ref: 5
Dec 18San Francisco Visitors Center at City Hall opens.Ref: 5
1975
Oct 09Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San FranciscoRef: 5
1976
Dec 13Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to LarkspurRef: 5
1977
Sep 20The first wave of Southeast Asian "boat people" arrived in San Francisco under a new U.S. resettlement program.Ref: 70
Oct 04Pier 39 opens in SF.Ref: 5
1978
Mar 22Robert Frost Plaza, Drumm & Market, San Francisco CA, dedicated.Ref: 5
Nov 27San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.Ref: 70
Dec 04Dianne Feinstein became San Francisco's first woman mayor when she was named to replace George Moscone, who had been murdered.Ref: 70
1980
Jun 11K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (SF).Ref: 5
1981
Nov 14Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again.Ref: 5
Dec 02Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco opens at 11:30 AM.Ref: 5
1982
Jan 04Golden Gate Bridge closed for the 3rd time by fierce stormRef: 5
Jun 25San Francisco holds its 1st County FairRef: 5
Sep 19Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service.Ref: 5
Sep 21SF cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs.Ref: 5
1983
Dec 13KYA-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KOIT.Ref: 5
1986
Dec 01The world’s most expensive hotel suite was offered to visitors at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. The eight-room accommodations included four fireplaces, three bedrooms and a library with secret passage. All this, and much more, for $20,000 a night.Ref: 4
1988
Jul 17Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103ø F (39ø C).Ref: 5
1991
Jun 23AIDS victim is 900th person to commit suicide by jumping off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.Ref: 10
1995
Dec 12Willie Brown beats incumbent mayor Frank Jordon to become the first African-American mayor of San Francisco.Ref: 2
1998
Dec 08San Francisco and several suburbs suffer a power blackout for up to seven hours. (XDG, p 4A, 12/08/2003)Ref: 83
2000
May 08The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to ban discrimination based on weight or height.Ref: 6
2004
Jan 08San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, 36, is sworn in as the city's youngest mayor in more than a century, by his father, Judge William Newsom. (USA Today, p 3A, 1/09/2004)Ref: 33
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