This is a timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area in
California , events in the nine counties that border on the
San Francisco Bay , and the bay itself.
An identical list of events, formatted differently, may be found
here .
Prehistory
San Andreas Fault
San Andreas Fault in the Bay Area
Mission San Jose (Ohlone) people
The
San Andreas Fault (pictured) begins to form in the mid
Cenozoic about 30
million years ago
9.5 million years ago, the
Moraga Volcanics produces most of the lavas that underlie the East Bay ridges from present day
Tilden Regional Park to
Moraga
During the
Quaternary glaciation beginning 2.58 million years ago, the
basin that will be filled by the bay is a large linear valley with small hills, similar to most of the valleys of the
Coast Ranges . The rivers of the Central Valley run out to sea through a canyon that will become the
Golden Gate . As the ice sheets melt, sea levels rise 300 feet (91 m) over the next 4,000 years, and the valley fills with water from the Pacific.
Evidence of
human occupation of California dates from at least 17,000 BCE.
The
Ohlone people (pictured) inhabit the Bay Area region as early as 6,000 years ago, with a 1770 estimated population of 10,000–20,000
The
Coast Miwok inhabit the
Sonoma region as early as 4,000 years ago, with a 1770 estimated population of 2,000
The
Patwin people inhabit the northern Bay region as early as 1,500 years ago, with a 1770 estimated population of 12,000
The
Bay Miwok inhabit the region that is now
Contra Costa County , with a 1770 estimated population of approximately 1,700
16th century
Drake's landing
17th century
Despite numerous sailing vessels traveling along the coast, no ships discover the
Golden Gate and the San Francisco Bay, due to factors such as fog and ships avoiding sailing close to shore
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18th century
19th century
1800–1845
Reconstructed Fort Ross chapel
William Richardson
In 1804, The Bay Area is part of the newly created
New Spain state of
Alta California
The
Russian-American Company establishes
Fortress Ross (Крѣпость Россъ, tr. Krepostʹ Ross) (pictured) in 1812, in what is now
Sonoma County
In 1821,
New Spain cedes
Alta California , including the Bay Area, to the newly created
Mexican Empire
William A. Richardson (pictured) arrives in San Francisco in 1822, and in 1838 is given
Rancho Saucelito in present-day
Marin County by Mexican Governor
Juan Alvarado
In 1823, the Bay Area, as part of
Alta California , becomes part of the newly founded
United Mexican States
In 1837, Antonio Ortega begins operating a
pulqueria (tavern) north of San Francisco, on the former site of
Mission San Francisco Solano
In 1838, a 7.0 MLa
earthquake strikes the
Peninsula , on or near the
San Andreas Fault , with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe )
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1846
Bear Flag
1847
Sam Brannan
1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Ad for sea transport to the Gold Rush
•
James W. Marshall finds several flakes of gold at a
lumber mill he owned in partnership
John Sutter , at the bank of the South Fork of the
American River ,
news of which quickly travels around the world (advertisement for transportation to the Gold Rush pictured, right)
• The
California Star and the
Californian both cease publication in San Francisco due to losing all their staff to the
California Gold Rush
• The
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (pictured, left) ends the
Mexican–American War , and cedes the territory of California (including the
San Francisco Bay Area ) to the
United States from
Mexico
• San Francisco's population is 1,000
1849
1983 Tadich Grill menu
Decorative sourdough bread at Boudin Bakery
Union Iron Works
• A
small coffee stand (1983 menu pictured, left) opens on Clay Street in San Francisco
•
Boudin Bakery is established in San Francisco, producing
San Francisco sourdough (loaves pictured, right)
•
The Alta California begins publishing in San Francisco
•
Bayard Taylor visits San Francisco and the Gold Country, writing about the Gold Rush
• The
Niantic whaling ship is stranded by its crew on the shore of San Francisco, who desert it to join the Gold Rush
• Irish immigrants
Peter and James Donahue found
Union Iron Works (pictured) in
South of Market, San Francisco
• San Francisco's population is 25,000, an increase by 2,400% from 1848's 1,000
1850
John W. Geary
First Street, San Jose, c. 1868–1885
Capitol building, Benicia
1851
Ida B. Wells High School
1851 hanging by the Vigilance Committee
• The
San Francisco Unified School District is established, as the first public
school district in California (historic Ida B. Wells High School building pictured, right)
• The
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance is formed in response to rampant crime and corruption in the municipal government (1851 hanging pictured, left)
•
Congregation Emanu-El is chartered in San Francisco
• A
fire destroys large swaths of San Francisco
1852
Ghirardelli ad, 1864
Wells Fargo stagecoach
Santa Clara in 1910
Oakland train depot, 1867
• After opening a number of businesses in Peru and California, Italian
chocolatier
Domenico Ghirardelli imports 200 pounds of cocoa beans and establishes
D. Ghirardelli & Co in San Francisco (1864 advertisement pictured, left)
•
Henry Wells and
William G. Fargo establish
Wells, Fargo & Company in San Francisco, a
joint-stock association with an initial capitalization of $300,000, to provide express and banking services (iconic stagecoach pictured, right)
• The city of
Santa Clara is incorporated in
Santa Clara County (1910 postcard pictured, right)
•
Oakland is incorporated in
Alameda County (1867 painting shown, right)
•
Francis K. Shattuck , George Blake, and two partners they met in the gold fields, William Hillegass and James Leonard,
lay claim to four adjoining 160-acre (0.65 km2 ) strips of land
north of Oakland
1853
Monarch the bear at the Academy of Sciences
Levi Strauss
• The
California Academy of Natural Sciences (modern display pictured, left) is founded in San Francisco
•
Levi Strauss & Co. is established when
Levi Strauss (pictured, right) arrives from
Buttenheim ,
Bavaria , in San Francisco to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York
dry goods business
•
Alameda County is incorporated
1854
Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1866
Union Ironworks shipyard, Alameda, c. 1918
•
Mare Island Naval Shipyard (pictured, left) , the first
United States Navy
base established on the Pacific Ocean, is established in
Vallejo ,
Solano County
• The
Mechanics' Institute Library and Chess Room is founded in San Francisco
• The city of
Alameda is incorporated in
Alameda County (
Alameda Works Shipyard pictured, right)
• The first department store in San Francisco opens: Davidson & Lane, later renamed
The White House .
1855
St Ignatius Church
1856
Map of San Mateo County, 1878
Église Notre Dame Des Victoires
1857
St. Mary's hospital after the 1906 earthquake
"Champagne Corking", by Eadweard Muybridge
1858
Dragon
1859
Alcatraz Citadel, 1908
1860
Nahl brothers in SF
1861
Iconic Gump's Buddha
1862
Jacob Schram
William "Cocktail" Boothby
•
Schramsberg Vineyards is established in
Napa Valley by Jacob Schram (pictured, left)
• The state capitol is moved from
Sacramento to San Francisco, due to
Flooding of the Central Valley
•
Minns Evening Normal School in San Francisco is taken over by the state and moved to
San Jose as the
California State Normal School
•
William Boothby (pictured, right) is born in San Francisco
1863
Jeanty at Jack's
Mountain View Cemetery
1864
Fairmont Hospital entrance
Bank of California
1865
SF Chronicle logo
1866
Interior of a rolling mill, 1855
Founder's Rock
1867
San Mateo County History Museum, formerly the San Mateo County Courthouse
1868
University of California logo
Damage from the Great San Francisco earthquake, in Haywards area
1884 Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
•
An earthquake estimated at 6.3–6.7 on the moment magnitude scale hits the Bay Area , with an epicenter in the
East Bay . It causes significant damage throughout the region, and comes to be known as the "Great San Francisco earthquake". (damage in the
Haywards area pictured, right)
• The
Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (pictured, right) in
Oakland is established by members of the
Sisters of the Holy Names from Canada
• The
University of California (logo pictured, left) is established in
Berkeley , along with the first campus in the system, the
University of California, Berkeley
•
Santa Rosa in
Sonoma County is incorporated
•
Vallejo in
Solano County is incorporated
•
Bret Harte begins publishing the
Overland Monthly in San Francisco
• The
Guittard Chocolate Company is founded in San Francisco
1869
Meek Mansion
Hermes Avitor Jr. replica
1870
Aerial photo of San Francisco showing Golden Gate Park
1871
Daily Californian kiosk
1872
Owl plaque at Bohemian Club
Hearst Gym, UC Berkeley
1873
Early cable cars
South Hall, UC Berkeley
• The
Clay Street Hill Railroad , the first in the
San Francisco cable car system (pictured, left) , begins operations
•
South Hall (pictured, right) is built in
Berkeley , thus becoming the new location of the
University of California, Berkeley , formerly located in
Oakland
1874
Old San Francisco Mint
East Brother Island Lighthouse
1875
Beringer Brothers historic building
Russet Burbank potatoes
1876
Baldwin Hotel and Theatre
1877
Frank M. Pixley, founder & editor of The Argonaut
1878
Construction at the Conservatory of Flowers
Mark Hopkins mansion
1879
Conservatory of Flowers in 1879
1880
Emperor Norton in full regalia
1881
Early MJB Coffee building
1882
Original building at Cresta Blanca Winery
1883
Victorian house at Concannon
1884
Charles Norton Felton
1885
Exterior of V. Sattui Winery in St. Helena
1886
Plaque at original site of Student's Observatory
1887
Statue of John McLaren at Golden Gate Park
1888
Collision of the SS City of Chester and the RMS Oceanic
1889
James Flood Mansion, headquarters of the Pacific-Union Club
Plaque at St. Paul's Episcopal Church
1890
Oakland Harbor Light
1891
Roe Island Light
Stanford Quadrangle, c. 1896
1892
Le Petit Trianon
1893
Stanford Law School founder Benjamin Harrison
1894
Adolph Sutro
1895
M. H. de Young and the San Francisco Chronicle in 1885
1896
Sutro Baths
James D. Phelan
1897
Penicillin chemical structure, a Cutter labs product
1898
Wong Kim Ark
Early Ferry building stereoscope, prior to the 1906 earthquake
Neptune Society Columbarium
Baldwin Hotel
•
United States v. Wong Kim Ark is decided in favor of Wong Kim Ark (pictured, left) , who is thus considered a U.S. citizen
• The
San Francisco Ferry Building (pictured, right) , designed by
A. Page Brown , opens
• A
columbarium (pictured, right) is built at Odd Fellows Cemetery in San Francisco by
Bernard J. S. Cahill , to complement an earlier columbarium built by him
• The
Baldwin Hotel (pictured, right) in San Francisco, built in 1876, burns down
•
Francis K. Shattuck dies after being knocked down by a man exiting from a train that Shattuck was attempting to board on the eponymous
Shattuck Avenue
1899
Architectural detail from the SF Teacher's College period
1900
Political cartoon during the plague years
20th century
1901
Phoebe Hearst
1902
Hotel Majestic
1903
Stanford Memorial Church
1904
Flood Building
1905
The "Big Four" graft prosecutors (left to right) Frances J. Heney, William J. Burns, Fremont Older and Rudolph Spreckels.
Original Bank of Pinole building
1906
Burnham's plan for San Francisco
The City in flames
• On April 17,
Daniel Burnham delivers plans (pictured, left) for the redesign of San Francisco
• The next day,
a massive earthquake hits San Francisco, starting fires which burn much of the city to the ground. 3,000 people die during the disaster.
1907
San Francisco Mayor Eugene Schmitz
1908
Redwood canopy undergrowth, Muir Woods
1909
1909 race program
Albany Hill in Albany
• The first
Portola Road Race (pictured, left) is run through
Melrose in
Oakland ,
San Leandro and
Hayward , with at least 250,000 attending
•
Albany (
Albany Hill pictured, right) is incorporated in
Alameda County
•
Fort Ross State Historic Park is established in
Sonoma County to protect
Fort Ross , founded in 1812 as the southernmost point in the
Russian colonization of the Americas
1910
current Berkeley Farms logo
The Dumbarton Rail Bridge in 2021
1911
Henry Hadley
1912
Sam Wo (closed, 2013)
Newspaper account of the first race in 1912
• The
Bay to Breakers (news headline on race pictured, right) is run in San Francisco for the first time
• Chinese restaurant
Sam Wo (pictured, left. translation: "Three Harmonies Porridge and Noodles") in San Francisco's
Chinatown opens
•
Sunnyvale in
Santa Clara County is incorporated
• The
California Society of Etchers is founded in San Francisco
•
Essanay Studios opens the Essanay-West studio in
Niles , at the foot of
Niles Canyon
1913
Hearst Castle detail, with faience tiles from California Faience
Chauncey Thomas opens
The Tile Shop on San Pablo Avenue in
Berkeley to make and sell
faience tiles (
Hearst Castle tower, decorated with tiles from California Faience, pictured)
Dewing Park in
Contra Costa County is renamed
Saranap after the local inter-urban commuter rail system developer's mother, Sara Napthaly
John Swett , former Superintendent of the San Francisco Public Schools, and "Father of the California public school", dies
1914
Sather Tower
Temple Sinai
•
Sather Tower (pictured, left) , a
campanile at the
University of California, Berkeley is completed
•
Temple Sinai (pictured, right) in
Oakland is completed
• The Baby Hospital Association (organized September 1912), and the Baby Hospital Association of Alameda County (organized September 1913), establish
The Children's Hospital of the East Bay in
Oakland
1915
Palace of Fine Arts
City Hall in 1921
Pavilion with the Tower of Jewels, left
• The new
Beaux-Arts style
San Francisco City Hall (pictured, right) opens at the
Civic Center , San Francisco
• The
Panama–Pacific International Exposition is held in San Francisco, to celebrate the completion of the
Panama Canal . It features the
Palace of Fine Arts (pictured, left) , the
Tower of Jewels (pictured, right) , and The
San Francisco Civic Auditorium .
Laura Ingalls Wilder
writes about the exposition during her visit to the city that year.
1916
Jack London in 1914
1917
Italian style Cotto Salame
1918
Twin Peaks Tunnell
1919
Early vintages from Wine Country
1920
Democratic Convention guest pass
1921
Stanford Stadium in 1921
USS Conestoga
1922
Huntington Hotel
1923
Original poster for La bohème
The Berkeley Fire
Memorial Stadium in 1930
• A
large fire in Berkeley (pictured, right) consumes some 640 structures, before being extinguished by cool, humid afternoon air coming through the
Golden Gate across the bay
•
Atherton is incorporated in
San Mateo County
•
California Memorial Stadium (pictured, right) opens in
Berkeley , as the home field for the
California Golden Bears football team of the
University of California, Berkeley
• The
East Bay Municipal Utility District is formed to provide water and sewage treatment services to the
East Bay
• The
San Francisco Opera Ballet gives its first performance, of
La bohème (pictured, left) , with
Queena Mario and
Giovanni Martinelli , conducted by founder
Gaetano Merola , at the
San Francisco Civic Auditorium
1924
Legion of Honor
1925
Fleischhacker Pool, defunct (1979)
Replica of original Kezar Stadium entrance
• The heated, saltwater
Fleishhacker Pool in San Francisco opens (pictured, left)
• The original
Kezar Stadium in San Francisco opens (replica arch pictured, right)
•
San Carlos is incorporated in
San Mateo County
• The
California Arts and Crafts
Ainsley House is built in
Campbell
1926
Big Dipper at Playland
Mural detail from the Mark Hopkins
1927
Moss Beach Distillery today
1928
Fox Oakland Theatre
1929
The Berkeley City Club building
1930
Berkeley Public Library building, downtown Berkeley
1931
Mount Diablo
1932
War Memorial Opera House
1933
Interior mural at Coit Tower
The Alley, today
1934
Trader Vic's menu
Warden's notebook page on Robert Stroud
Billy club used at the strike in Seattle
1935
Woman with a Hat , from the SFMOMA collection
Former capitol building, Benicia
1941 trolleybus model
• The
San Francisco Museum of Art opens at the
War Memorial Veterans Building on
Van Ness Avenue in the
Civic Center (
Woman with a Hat by Matisse, from the museum collection, pictured, left)
• Benjamin Franklin Davis, grandson of the man who helped develop
Levi's jeans, opens his
eponymous clothing store in San Francisco
•
Benicia Capitol State Historic Park opens at the site of California's third capital building (pictured, right) , where the
California State Legislature convened from February 3, 1853 to February 24, 1854
•
San Francisco Junior College is established
•
Lucky Stores is founded in
Alameda County
•
Trolleybuses (pictured, right) began operating in San Francisco
1936
Commemorative coin
1937
Berkeley Rose Garden
Opening day of the Golden Gate Bridge
Hanna-Honeycomb House
San Francisco Mint
• The
Berkeley Rose Garden (pictured, right) , built with funds from the
Civil Works Administration , opens to the public
• The
Golden Gate Bridge (opening day pictured, left) opens to the public
• The
Hanna–Honeycomb House (pictured, right) , built by
Frank Lloyd Wright at
Stanford University , is completed
• The new
San Francisco Mint (pictured, right) is completed
•
Stanford Memorial Auditorium is completed
•
Golden Gate National Cemetery in
San Bruno is dedicated
• The
Malloch Building in San Francisco is completed
1938
49 Mile Scenic Drive sign
The beach at Lake Anza
• The
49-Mile Scenic Drive (road sign pictured, left) is created in San Francisco for the
Golden Gate International Exposition by the San Francisco Down Town Association
•
Lake Anza (pictured, right) is created in
Tilden Park in the
Berkeley Hills
1939
Poster from the Golden Gate International Exhibition
HP Garage
Top of the Mark
• The
Golden Gate International Exposition (poster pictured, left) opens at newly created
Treasure Island
• The
Neptune Beach amusement park closes in
Alameda
•
Hewlett-Packard is founded in a
garage (pictured) in
Palo Alto
•
Blue Shield of California is founded in San Francisco by the
California Medical Association
•
Consumers' Cooperative of Berkeley opens, having formed from the Berkeley Buyers' Club, which was associated with the
End Poverty in California movement
• The
Top of the Mark rooftop bar (pictured) is established at the top of the
Mark Hopkins Hotel on
Nob Hill in San Francisco
•
Nuclear scientist
Ernest Lawrence at the
University of California, Berkeley wins the
Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of the
cyclotron
1940
601 California Street, San Francisco
1941
San Francisco recruiting office
1942
Japanese American girl, waiting for transport
1943
Travis Air Force Base
Edwin Hawkins Singers
• The
Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base (pictured, right) , near
Fairfield , in
Solano County , is officially activated
•
Golden Gate Park superintendent
John McLaren dies
•
Edwin Hawkins is born in
Oakland (
Edwin Hawkins Singers pictured, left)
1944
Fred Korematsu
Port Chicago disaster aftermath
1945
Samuel Penfield Taylor gravesite
The
United Nations Charter is signed at the
San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center in San Francisco
Following the effective end of World War II on
Victory over Japan Day , thousands of drunken people, the vast majority of them Navy enlistees who had not served in the war theatre, embarked in what the
San Francisco Chronicle summarized in 2015 as "a three-night orgy of vandalism, looting, assault, robbery, rape and murder" and "the deadliest riots in the city's history", with more than 1000 people injured, 13 killed, and at least six women raped.
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The
Tonga Room restaurant and
tiki bar opens at the
Fairmont San Francisco
San Francisco-based
Western Pipe and Steel Company ends operations
The
Bay Area Council for economic development is founded in San Francisco
Samuel P. Taylor State Park is established in
Marin County (gravesite of
Samuel Penfield Taylor , at park, pictured)
1946
Alcatraz shelling damage
SRI International building
Southwest Airways plane
1947
UC Berkeley logo
1948
Doggie Diner head
San Francisco Boy's Chorus
Vesuvio Cafe
• The
Point Reyes Light weekly newspaper begins publishing in
Marin County
• The
San Francisco Boys Chorus (pictured) is formed
•
Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences is created from the merger of the Schools of Biological Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences
•
Beat Generation hangout
Vesuvio Cafe (pictured) opens in San Francisco
•
Westlake Shopping Center opens in
Daly City
•
Richard Diebenkorn has his first art exhibit at the
California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco
• The
Doggie Diner fast food restaurant opens in
Oakland (later iconic doggie head pictured)
1949
Mervyns logo
ADF regions (Western ADF in pink)
1950
Contemporary performance at Children's Fairyland
1951
Yoshida signs San Francisco Peace Treaty
• The
Treaty of San Francisco , between Japan and part of the
Allied Powers , is officially signed by 48 nations at the
War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco (signing pictured, right)
•
Stanford Industrial Park in
Palo Alto is completed
• A
Trader Vic's opens in San Francisco
•
Nuclear scientist
Glenn T. Seaborg (pictured, left) at the
University of California, Berkeley shares the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry with
Edwin McMillan for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements."
• The
USS Independence is scuttled near the
Farallon Islands , after being used as a target for the
Operation Crossroads nuclear test at
Bikini Atoll
1952
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1953
City Lights
1954
The Redwood Grove Trail (old-growth loop) in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park
1955
Ginsberg signature
Cupertino flag
1956
Caffe Trieste interior
Half Moon Bay State Beach
1957
Commemorative plaque to the Fairchild team
1958
SF Giants logo
1959
Embarcadero Freeway
Montgomery Block, 1862
Henry Coe skyline
1960
The "Blue Cube"
SSU sign
1961
Aerial photograph of Chabot College
1962
Marine World show, 1970
Stanford Linear Accelerator
1963
Contemporary BAM/PFA building
1964
Don Edwards
Oakland Temple
1965
Grateful Dead
Jefferson Airplane
1966
Railing pillar with female figure, Asian Art Museum
SCA participants
Zun in shape of rhinoceros, China, 1100s–1050 BCE
Satellite photograph of the Oakland Coliseum
The original Peet's Coffee, Berkeley
• The
Love Pageant Rally is held, on the day
LSD becomes illegal, in
Golden Gate Park , by the creators of the
San Francisco Oracle
• The
Society for Creative Anachronism (pictured) forms in
Berkeley , with a parade down
Telegraph Avenue
•
George Paul Miller is re-elected to
California's 8th congressional district
• The
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (artifacts pictured) opens as a wing of the
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in
Golden Gate Park
• High-end clothier
Wilkes Bashford opens in
Union Square, San Francisco
• The
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense is formed in
Oakland by
Huey Newton and
Bobby Seale
•
Moby Grape is formed in San Francisco by
Skip Spence and
Matthew Katz
• The
Oakland Coliseum (pictured) opens
•
Peet's Coffee & Tea (pictured) is founded in
Berkeley
• The
Print Mint begins publishing and distributing posters and
underground comics in
Berkeley
• The
San Francisco Bay Guardian weekly
alternative newspaper is founded in San Francisco
• The
American Conservatory Theater moves to San Francisco
1967
Human Be-In poster reprinted for the San Francisco Oracle
CCR in 1968
Rolling Stone logo
Carlos Santana in 1973
KICU-TV Channel 36 signs on the air in San Francisco
• The
Mantra-Rock Dance concert takes place at the
Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco
• The
Human Be-In (poster artwork from magazine cover depicted, left) occurs at San Francisco's
Golden Gate Park , a prelude to the
Summer of Love
• The
University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism is established
•
Creedence Clearwater Revival (pictured, right) is formed in
El Cerrito
•
Rolling Stone magazine (current logo pictured, right) begins publishing in San Francisco
•
Santana is formed in San Francisco by
Carlos Santana (pictured, right)
• The
Summer of Love comes to San Francisco
1968
Computer mouse, based on Englebart's demo
KBHK-TV Channel 44 signs on the air in San Francisco
KEMO-TV Channel 20 signs on the air in San Francisco
Lawrence Hall of Science
In the last minute of a
football game between the
Oakland Raiders and the
New York Jets , Oakland scores two
touchdowns to overcome a 32–29 New York lead, just as the
NBC Television Network
breaks away from the game, with the Jets still winning, to air the television film Heidi
Japan Airlines Flight 2 flying from
Tokyo International Airport to
San Francisco International Airport lands in the shallow waters of
San Francisco Bay , two and a half miles short of the runway, with no injuries
Douglas Englebart presents
The Mother of All Demos (prototype based on the demo pictured) at the
Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco
The
Lawrence Hall of Science (pictured) is established in
Berkeley
KSFR, 94.9 FM, changes to call letters
KSAN , and switches formats from classical music to
freeform rock
Luis Walter Alvarez at the
University of California, Berkeley is awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physics
1969
Sentinel Building, American Zoetrope HQ
Children experimenting with vapor, Exploratorium
Logo for The Gap
San Jose Museum of Art
People's Park, Berkeley
• The
Altamont Free Concert is held at the
Altamont Speedway between
Tracy and
Livermore
•
Advanced Micro Devices is founded in
Sunnyvale
•
American Zoetrope (headquarters at the
Sentinel Building pictured) is founded in San Francisco by
Francis Ford Coppola
• The
Exploratorium (interior pictured) is founded in San Francisco
• Clothing retailer
The Gap (early logo pictured) is founded in San Francisco
• The
Oakland Museum of California is established
• The
San Jose Museum of Art (pictured) is established
• A "
People's Park " (pictured) is created by community activists on
University of California, Berkeley property, off
Telegraph Avenue in
Berkeley
• The
Bank of America Center building in San Francisco is completed
• The
Occupation of Alcatraz by
Native American activists begins
•
Earth Day is first proposed by
John McConnell at a
UNESCO conference in San Francisco
• An unidentified person sends letters to the
Vallejo Times Herald , the
San Francisco Chronicle , and
The San Francisco Examiner , taking credit for two fatal shooting incidents, then sends a fourth letter to the Examiner with the salutation "Dear Editor This is the
Zodiac speaking."
1970
Berkeley Art Museum
1971
Lupines at Annadel State Park
Tao House, Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site
Chez Panisse
1972
Playland in San Francisco
Early model BART car
Gay Firefighters float at Gay Pride 1983
1973
Travis Air Force Base
Burst of Joy , depicting
United States Air Force
Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm being reunited with his family, after spending more than five years in captivity as a prisoner of war in
North Vietnam , is taken at
Travis Air Force Base (pictured) in
Solano County
16 people are killed, during a string of racially motivated attacks, dubbed the
Zebra murders , committed by African-American men against mostly white victims, in San Francisco, continuing into 1974
The
Oakland A's win the
World Series
Bill Owens ' photoessay
Suburbia , featuring images of
Livermore , is published by
Straight Arrow Press in San Francisco
1974
Patty Hearst with gun
1975
1976
Apple Computer's first logo
Chateau Montelena 1973
•
Five unsolved murders of young women are committed in
San Mateo County
•
Apple Inc. (pictured, left) is founded in
Cupertino by
Steve Jobs ,
Steve Wozniak , and
Ronald Wayne
•
Napa Valley wineries
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars and
Chateau Montelena (pictured, right) place best in the red and white wine categories respectively, against their traditionally first ranked French competitors, in the wine tasting that becomes known as the
Judgment of Paris
•
China Camp State Park is established in
San Rafael
•
Fairfield -based candy company Herman Goelitz sells their first
Jelly Bellies
•
Cyra McFadden 's
The Serial 's first installments are published in the
Pacific Sun alternative newsweekly
•
Dennis Richmond becomes the lead anchor at
KTVU news in
Oakland , an early African American news anchor in a major US television market
•
KPIX television in San Francisco debuts a locally produced magazine program called
Evening: The MTWTF Show
1977
Dianne Feinstein
Harvey Milk
• The
San Francisco Board of Supervisors election places
Dianne Feinstein (pictured, left) ,
Harvey Milk (pictured, far right) and
Dan White on the board
•
Oracle Corporation is founded in
Santa Clara
•
Victoria's Secret opens its first store at the
Stanford Shopping Center in
Palo Alto
• Members of the
Joe Boys gang
open fire at the Golden Dragon Restaurant in
Chinatown , in an assault on rival gang
Wah Ching , leaving 5 people dead and 11 others injured, none of whom are gang members.
•
Apple Computer introduces the
Apple II
1978
Leo Ryan
SF Chronicle headline of the assassinations of Moscone and Milk
1979
Rioters at SF City Hall
SF Mayor Dianne Feinstein
1980
Davies Symphony Hall
Czesław Miłosz
1981
winery directional sign, Sonoma Valley
Napa Valley winery historic marker
• The first
World Games are held in
Santa Clara
•
Erhard Seminars Training in San Francisco dissolved
• The
Sonoma Valley AVA (winery directional sign pictured, left) is established
• The
Napa Valley AVA (historic marker pictured, right) is established
• The
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary is established in coastal waters off the
Golden Gate
•
Arthur Leonard Schawlow at
Stanford University , along with
Nicolaas Bloembergen and
Kai Siegbahn , share the
Nobel Prize in Physics for their work with
lasers
• 14 year old
Marcy Renee Conrad is murdered in
Milpitas
•
Ceratitis capitata , known commonly as the "Mediterranean fruit fly", infests the Bay Area
1982
E-Trade San Francisco financial center
Symantec headquarters in Mountain View (2013)
Fremont Assembly
1983
SF Mayor Dianne Feinstein
1984
Geraldine Ferraro, with Bob Matsui, Norman Mineta and Tom Hsieh
NUMMI Plant
1985
Abandoned lighthouse-keeper building, Año Nuevo Island
• A plane heading for
Buchanan Field Airport loses control and
crashes into the roof of Macys, killing the pilot and two passengers, and seriously injuring 84 Christmas shoppers at the
Sun Valley Mall in
Concord
•
Año Nuevo State Park is established at
Año Nuevo Island (pictured, left) and points in
San Mateo County
•
Emeryville Crescent State Marine Reserve (pictured, right) is established
•
NeXT is founded in
Redwood City by
Apple Computer co-founder
Steve Jobs , after being forced out of Apple
• The
San Francisco 49ers
win the Super Bowl for the second time
1986
924 Gilman
Nude woman at Baker Beach, evoking Burning Man
1987
Santa Clara VTA logo
1988
1989
Collapse of the Cypress Street Viaduct
Kezar Stadium
1990
1991
Remains of houses destroyed by the fire
• The
Oakland and Berkeley Hills are hit by a firestorm (damage pictured, left)
•
Frank Jordan
is elected mayor of San Francisco
• Groundbreaking ceremonies take place at the
AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco (logo pictured, right)
• San Francisco
pornography and
striptease club pioneer
Jim Mitchell kills his brother and business partner Artie in
Marin County
•
Apple Computer introduces the
PowerBook line of
subnotebook personal computers
1992
Barbara Boxer
1993
Yerba Buena Center exterior
1994
I. Magnin building in San Francisco (now Macy's)
1995
damage from the Mount Vision fire
Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, in 2006
1996
1997
Herb Caen
1998
Mayor Ron Gonzales
Elihu M. Harris Office Building
1999
Brown in 1996
2000
Eastine Cowner, a former waitress, works on a ship under construction at Richmond, California
21st century
2001
2006 snowfall
2002
View of the bridge looking east
2003
Tesla headquarters
2004
The line of same-sex couples applying for marriage licenses, stretching for blocks around San Francisco's City Hall in February 2004
2005
2006
Exhibit at the 2006 Maker Faire
2007
Mayor Gavin Newsom
Elephant seals at Año Nuevo during the mating season in early February
2008
Mervyn's former headquarters, Hayward
The fire at about 7 a.m. on October 13, 2008
2009
2010
Damage from San Bruno pipeline explosion
Jean Quan
Tesla Factory interior
2011
2012
Matt Cain
Novato meteorite trajectory
Chevron Refinery Fire
2013
Oracle Team USA, 2013 America's Cup
Warren Hall, days prior to demolition
SFJAZZ Center
Aerial view of construction of the Tom Lantos Tunnels
• The
2013 America's Cup (
Oracle Team USA yacht pictured) is held in
San Francisco Bay
•
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes while landing at
San Francisco International Airport
• An unofficial death certificate is issued for
Jahi McMath by the
Alameda County coroner
•
Andy Lopez is shot and killed by a
Sonoma County sheriff's deputy
•
Warren Hall (pictured) , at
California State University, East Bay , is
demolished by implosion
•
Graton Resort & Casino opens in
Rohnert Park
• The
Russell City Energy Center goes online in
Hayward
•
SFJAZZ Center (pictured) opens in San Francisco
• The
new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens
•
Ordinaire , a
wine bar and shop serving
natural wine , opens in
Oakland
•
Solar Impulse begins a cross-US flight, taking off from
Moffett Field in
Mountain View
• The
Tom Lantos Tunnels (pictured) , at
Devil's Slide near
Pacifica , open
•
Gilead Sciences ' drug
Sovaldi , for the treatment of hepatitis C, is approved by the
FDA
•
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicist
Carl Haber is awarded a
MacArthur "Genius Grant"
•
San Francisco Bay is designated a
Ramsar Wetland of International Importance
• Cancer patient Miles Scott becomes
Batkid for a day in San Francisco, turning it into
Gotham City , with Mayor Ed Lee and others participating in the
Make-A-Wish project
2014
Mission Bay fire
Amelia Rose Earhart
Levi's Stadium, from Great America
Robin Williams
Damage from earthquake
Ellison at Oracle OpenWorld 2010
William E. Moerner
SFBG logo
Libby Schaaf
New Leptogorgia species
The San Francisco Twins
SS City of Rio de Janeiro
A time-lapse animation from NASA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite showing the formation of the storm from December 1–3, 2014 (the small system to the far left of the main storm over California).
March
June
July
August
September
October
Hewlett-Packard CEO
Meg Whitman announces plans for the company to split in two, forming Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP, Inc.
Stanford University professor
William E. Moerner (pictured) ,
Eric Betzig and
Stefan Hell are awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their use of fluorescence in microscopy
Livermore golf coach Andrew Nisbet is sentenced to 27 years in prison on charges of molesting three of his juvenile students, and then plotting to kill them while being held in jail
[15]
The
Daughters of Charity Health System approves the sale of
Daly City's
Seton Medical Center and
San Jose's
O'Connor Hospital to
Prime Healthcare Services
The
San Francisco Bay Guardian free weekly
alternative newspaper ceases publication after 48 years (logo pictured)
The
San Francisco Giants defeat the
Kansas City Royals to win the
World Series , their third championship in five seasons
Ross William Ulbricht is arrested in San Francisco, charged with running the
Silk Road
dark web online illicit marketplace
Apple, Inc. CEO
Tim Cook states in an editorial that he is "proud to be gay", becoming the first openly gay leader of a major U.S. company
University of California, Berkeley Chancellor
Nicholas Dirks announces plans for a
Berkeley Global Campus at Richmond Bay , to develop existing UC campuses in
Richmond
Susan Xiao-Ping Su, founder and former president of the defunct
Pleasanton -based
Tri-Valley University , is sentenced to 16 years in prison for
visa and mail fraud
November
Libby Schaaf (pictured) is elected mayor of
Oakland , defeating incumbent mayor
Jean Quan
Measure D, a
sugary drink tax , is approved by
Berkeley voters, the first such tax in the United States
Mike Honda is elected to
California's 17th congressional district , defeating
Ro Khanna
David Chiu is elected to
California's 17th State Assembly district , defeating
David Campos
Sam Liccardo is elected mayor of
San Jose , defeating
Dave Cortese
A new, unnamed species (pictured) in the coral
genus
Leptogorgia is discovered off the coast of
Sonoma County , near the
Gulf of the Farallones and
Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries
Up to 18,000 nurses from at least 21
Kaiser Permanente hospitals and 35 clinics around the Bay Area go on strike, citing issues with patient care standards and
Ebola safeguards
The 27 story
535 Mission Street office
skyscraper opens in the
South of Market district of San Francisco
Marian Brown of the
San Francisco Twins , dies, her sister Vivian having died in January 2013 (sisters pictured)
The
Oakland Airport Connector
automated guideway transit (AGT) system begins operating between the
BART
Coliseum station and
Oakland International Airport station
The
Watershed Alliance of Marin reports that no
coho salmon had returned to
Redwood Creek in 2014, prompting concerns of likely local extinction of the species.
The remains of the
SS City of Rio de Janeiro (pictured) , which shipwrecked in 1901, are found off the shores of San Francisco at the
Golden Gate
December
2015
23andMe logo
Golden Gate Bridge median
Ford Research and Innovation logo
UCSF Mission Bay construction
Left to right: Ames scientists Michel Nuevo, Christopher Materese and Scott Sandford reproduce uracil, cytosine, and thymine, three key components of our hereditary material, in the laboratory
Cordell Bank and Farallones topography
SFPD insignia
USS Independence in the San Francisco Bay
Stephen Curry in 2015
Next Thing Co. logo
Wragg Fire
Tesla Model X
Condor Club
Ian Murdock (2008)
January
February
March
Scientists (pictured) at the
Ames Research Center announce they have synthesized "...
uracil ,
cytosine , and
thymine , all three components of
RNA and
DNA , non-biologically in a laboratory under conditions found in space."
[25]
Patrick Willis ,
linebacker for eight years with the
San Francisco 49ers , retires at age 30 due to a foot injury
Prime Healthcare Services rejects an offer to purchase
Daly City's
Seton Medical Center and
San Jose's
O'Connor Hospital from the
Daughters of Charity Health System
The
U.S. Geological Survey report, "Third Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast", estimates there is a 72 percent chance that a magnitude-6.7 or larger quake will strike the Bay Area before the year 2044
[26]
Professor
Ronald Rael , of the
College of Environmental Design at
UC Berkeley unveils a 9' high
3D printed architectural experiment, entitled "Bloom", the first printed structure of its type.
[27]
[28]
[29]
The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration more than doubles the size of the
Cordell Bank and
Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuaries (underwater topography pictured)
The
San Francisco Police Department relocates its headquarters from the Hall of Justice to a new facility at
Mission Bay (insignia pictured)
Lawyer and
Reddit executive
Ellen Pao
loses in a gender discrimination lawsuit against Silicon Valley
venture capital firm
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
[30]
April
The
Brookings Institution reports that San Francisco has the wealthiest people, in the top 5% of its population, of any major U.S. city, and the fastest growing income inequality
S.F.’s richest are wealthiest in the land
Governor
Jerry Brown imposes mandatory water rationing for the first time in state history, requiring all local water supply agencies, including the
Alameda County ,
Marin ,
Sonoma and
Santa Clara Valley Water Districts , reduce water use by 25%, due to the ongoing
drought in California
[31]
Author and community activist
Eddy Zheng is pardoned by governor Brown, for crimes he committed at age 16
[32]
Apple, Inc. introduces the
Apple Watch (pictured)
Over 100 prominent Bay Area Catholics sign a full page advertisement in the
San Francisco Chronicle appealing to
Pope Francis to replace
Salvatore Cordileone as archbishop of the
San Francisco Archdiocese , for fostering "an atmosphere of division and intolerance."
[33]
The World War II era aircraft carrier
USS Independence (pictured) is rediscovered near the
Farallon Islands by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[34]
Doctors Medical Center in
San Pablo closes
[35]
The San Francisco-based
Heald College system shuts down, when its parent company,
Corinthian Colleges , goes out of business
Tesla Motors announces the
Powerwall , a battery system for home use
May
Golden State Warriors basketball player
Stephen Curry (pictured) is awarded the
2015
NBA Most Valuable Player Award
The
San Mateo–Hayward Bridge closes to traffic, for the first time since opening in 1967, for resurfacing and maintenance.
[36]
[37]
San Francisco District Attorney
George Gascón orders a review of at least 3,000 arrests over the last 10 years, in response to evidence that
San Francisco Police Department officers may have shown racial bias, based on their having sent racist and homophobic text messages
[38]
San Francisco becomes the first city in the United States to ban
chewing tobacco at sports venues, including
AT&T Park , the home of the
San Francisco Giants
[39]
The
Regional Renewable Energy Procurement Project dedicates its first project, a future
solar farm at
Hayward's former landfill site
[40]
Dead
gray whales wash ashore at
Half Moon Bay , then at
Portuguese Beach in
Sonoma County , with a
sperm whale also washing ashore at
Point Reyes National Seashore , the third, fourth and fifth dead whales found on Bay Area beaches (among eight in Northern California) in less than 2 months
[41]
[42]
[43]
Oakland based
start-up
Next Thing Co. raises over $1.5m in its
Kickstarter campaign for its forthcoming $9 miniature computer, Chip.
[44]
The population of
San Jose is now officially over 1,000,000, making it the tenth largest city in the United States, according to the
U.S. census
[45]
Vandals damage an inflatable dam across
Alameda Creek in
Fremont , releasing 50 million gallons of drinking water into San Francisco Bay
[46]
The
Solar Energy Research Center opens at the newly built
Chu Hall at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in
Berkeley
[47]
The
Golden State Warriors beat the
Houston Rockets in the
National Basketball Association Playoffs , and advance to the
NBA Finals for the first time since
1975
June
July
August
September
November
December
2016
Paul Kantner (1975)
The Berkeley Art Museum
Lady Gaga and the Blue Angels at Super Bowl 50
Andrew Grove
Wreck of the USS Conestoga
garlic fries at Gordon Biersch Brewing Company, originally based in San Jose
Stephen Curry
Renee Davidson Courthouse
SFMOMA, with expansion
Styrofoam pollution, Japan
Stock value of Niantic during release of Pokémon GO
Vinod Khosla
Millennium Tower, San Francisco
European grapevine moth
Colin Kaepernick
Dustin Moskovitz
Loma Fire
Nora Campos
New control tower at SFO
Kearny Street, San Francisco
Protesters against Donald Trump, San Francisco
Oakland "Ghost Ship" warehouse fire
Uber self driving car (October 2016)
January
Researchers at the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , including
Peidong Yang (pictured, above) , announce they were able to induce
Moorella thermoacetica to photosynthesize, despite its not being photosynthetic. It also synthesized semiconductor nanoparticles, thus using light to produce chemical products other than those produced in photosynthesis.
[64]
A federal court jury in San Francisco finds
Raymond Chow Kwok-cheung guilty of all 162 charges against him, including murder, after a five year long undercover federal operation
[65]
William Del Monte, the last known survivor of the
1906 San Francisco earthquake , dies in
Marin County at age 109
[66]
Paul Kantner (pictured) , guitarist, vocalist and co-founder of
Jefferson Airplane , dies in San Francisco
The
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive opens its new building to the public (entrance pictured)
[67]
February
March
An
Altamont Corridor Express train derails in
Sunol
[68]
Ben Bagdikian , journalist, author, and dean emeritus at the
University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism , dies in
Berkeley
[69]
The first
Silicon Valley Comic Con , organized by
Steve Wozniak and
Stan Lee , is held at the
San Jose Convention Center
Former
Intel CEO and chairman
Andy Grove (pictured) , one of the major figures in the growth of
Silicon Valley , dies
[70]
The wreck of the
USS Conestoga (pictured) is confirmed in the
Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary , 95 years after it had gone missing
Tesla Motors announces the
Model 3 , pre-orders of which reach 115,000 within 4 hours of the announcement.
[71]
April
The
Oakland Tribune ceases publication after 142 years, and is replaced by the
East Bay Times
[72]
Hundreds of pages of
University of California, Berkeley records are released, showing a pattern of documented sexual harassment and firings of non-tenured staff
[73]
The
San Francisco Board of Supervisors passes a parental leave law requiring employers to offer six weeks of fully paid leave for new parents, the first city in the US to do so.
[74]
The long closed
UC Theatre in
Berkeley , formerly a
revival house
movie theater , reopens as a
music venue
[75]
The
Golden State Warriors win against the
Memphis Grizzlies , their 73rd win of the season, breaking the previous
NBA record, held by the 1995–96
Chicago Bulls , for the most victories in a single season
[76]
Napster founder and philanthropist
Sean Parker donates $250 million to create the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, with funds going to over 300 scientists at 40 laboratories, in 6 institutions, including the
University of California at San Francisco
[77]
The
San Francisco Board of Supervisors passes a law requiring all new buildings below 10 stories to have rooftop
solar panels , making it the
first major US city to do so
[78]
Sanford and Joan Weill donate $185 million to the
University of California, San Francisco to create the Weill Institute for Neurosciences
[79]
May
A poll of 1,000 people, by the
Bay Area Council , showed that 34 percent are considering leaving the area, due primarily to the high costs of living and housing, and traffic.
[80]
McDonald's tests
garlic fries at four restaurants in the
South Bay , using locally grown garlic from
Gilroy (
Gordon Biersch Brewing Company garlic fries pictured)
[81]
The
Golden State Warriors '
Stephen Curry (pictured) is named
NBA MVP , in their first unanimous vote
[82]
It is revealed that the
FBI hid microphones outside an Oakland
Alameda County Superior Court
building (pictured) , between March 2010 and January 2011, as part of an investigation into bid rigging and fraud by
Alameda and
San Mateo County real estate investors, this done without a warrant
[83]
The
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (pictured) reopens after the completion of a two-and-a-half-year expansion, by architecture firm
Snøhetta , more than doubling the gallery space
[84]
[85]
Pittsburg moves to install surveillance cameras along
California State Route 4 , in response to a series of 20 freeway shootings in the area that have taken the lives of six people, and injured 11, in the past year
[86]
Scientists find evidence of
methane-producing microbes in water coming from underground at The Cedars, freshwater springs along
Austin Creek in
Sonoma County , the first time these
methanogens that
thrive in harsh environments have been discovered beyond the ocean floor
[87]
The
San Jose Sharks win against the
St. Louis Blues in the
Stanley Cup ice hockey playoffs , advancing them to the
Stanley Cup Finals , their first trip to the finals since their founding in 1991
San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr resigns after the officer-involved shooting death of a woman.
[88]
The
Golden State Warriors beat
Oklahoma City Thunder in the
National Basketball Association Playoffs , and advance to the
NBA Finals for the second year in a row
[89]
June
The
San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority 's ballot measure, the San Francisco Bay Clean Water, Pollution Prevention, and Habitat Restoration Program, passes with 2/3 of the vote in the 9 Bay Area counties, providing $500 million in funding for wetland restoration and other projects
[90]
Protesters attack Trump supporters at a
Donald Trump campaign stop in
San Jose , leaving one supporter bloodied after having their head bludgeoned
[91]
Public protest erupts over
the sentencing of former
Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner,
convicted of three charges of felony
sexual assault , to six months of jail and three years of probation, by
Santa Clara County Superior Court judge
Aaron Persky
[92]
Oakland Police Department
chief Sean Whent steps down, while the department is being investigated for an alleged sex scandal possibly involving an underage girl, following the suicide of one officer associated with the scandal
[93]
Oakland mayor
Libby Schaaf appoints
City Administrator Sabrina Landreth as head of the
Oakland Police Department , putting it under civilian control, after 3
police chiefs resign within 9 days, while the department is under multiple investigations
[94]
In San Francisco's highly volatile housing market, a
North Beach resident's rent is increased by 344%, from $1,800 a month to $8,000, with him facing eviction for nonpayment
[95]
The
Oakland City Council votes unanimously to ban the handling of
coal and
coke at the city's shipping and storage facilities, including the as yet unfinished
Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal
[96]
Stanford University researchers, including study co-author
Robert Jackson , find evidence for new
groundwater in the
California Central Valley , tripling the previous estimates for deep
aquifer reserves in the region
[97]
The
Sonoma Stompers
professional baseball team add two female players to their roster, outfielder-pitcher Kelsie Whitmore and infielder Stacy Piagno, the first women to play professional baseball for a mixed-gender team in the US since the 1950s.
[98]
San Francisco bans the sale of products made from
expanded polystyrene (typical pollution pictured) , including packing material, buoys and cups, the most stringent ban on foam-type plastics in the US
[99]
July
August
September
Napa Valley 's
Margrit Mondavi , the widow of wine pioneer
Robert Mondavi , and advocate for the culture of the region, dies at her home in Napa at age 91
[107]
Facebook co-founder
Dustin Moskovitz (pictured) donates $20 million to a number of elections organizations, with the express purpose of supporting
Democratic Party candidates and issues, and defeating
Donald Trump , making him the 3rd largest donor in the
2016 campaigns
[108]
Discovery Bay former realtor
Marco Gutierrez , the co-founder of Latinos for
Trump , says to
Joy Reid on
MSNBC that Mexican culture in the US is "dominant" and that "If you don't do something about it, you're going to have
taco trucks on every corner "
[109]
Influential San Francisco political activist and broker
Rose Pak , an advocate for the
Chinatown community , dies in San Francisco
[110]
The
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announces a new science program, Chan Zuckerberg Science, with $3 billion in investment over the next decade, with the goal of helping to cure, manage, or prevent all disease by the year 2100. $600 million is to be spent on Biohub, a location in San Francisco's
Mission Bay District near the
University of California, San Francisco
[111]
[112]
The
Sawmill Fire breaks out in rural
Cloverdale , near
The Geysers , in
Sonoma County ,
[113] followed by the
Loma Fire (pictured) in the
Santa Cruz Mountains
[114]
The
MacArthur "Genius" grant recipients are announced, including
Stanford University bioengineering professor and inventor
Manu Prakash ,
San Jose graphic novelist
Gene Luen Yang , and San Francisco sculptor
Vincent Fecteau
[115]
The
San Francisco Board of Supervisors passes a law, authored by
Scott Wiener ,
barring the city from doing business with companies that have a home base in states such as
North Carolina ,
Tennessee , and
Mississippi , that forbid civil rights protections for
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people
[116]
October
Theranos announces it will close its laboratory operations, shutter its wellness centers and lay off around 40 percent of its work force, while focusing on an initiative to create miniature medical testing machines
[117]
Researchers led by
Ali Javey at the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announce the creation of a transistor with a working 1-
nanometer
gate , the smallest transistor reported to date
[118]
A new California law, authored by
San Jose
Assemblywoman
Nora Campos (pictured) , will allow San Jose to be the first California city to create
"tiny homes" for the homeless, bypassing some state building codes
[119]
The new
control tower (pictured) at
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) begins operating
[120]
The
US Justice Department 's
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services releases a 432-page report stating that the
San Francisco Police Department stops and searches African Americans at a higher rate than other groups, and inadequately investigates officers use of force. The report details "numerous indicators of implicit and institutionalized bias against minority groups", with a large majority of suspects killed by police being people of color
[121]
Peninsula Clean Energy begins providing electricity to 20 percent of residential customers in
San Mateo County , all municipalities, and all small- to mid-size businesses, as a
Community Choice Aggregation program, an alternative to
Pacific Gas and Electric
[122]
Wells Fargo chairman and CEO John Stumpf announces he will retire, shortly after the bank is issued $185 million in fines for creating over 1.5 million checking and savings accounts and 500,000 credit cards that its customers never authorized. This includes $100 million in fines from the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , the largest in the agency's history.
[123]
Tesla Motors posts a profitable quarter, their first in 8 quarters, defying industry expectations
[124]
November
The
San Francisco – Oakland Metropolitan Region has the worst road conditions of any major US metropolitan area (71% rated "poor"), with the
San Jose region rated third nationwide (59%) (street of San Francisco pictured)
[125]
The nine Bay Area counties all vote overwhelmingly for
Hillary Clinton for president, from 62% (
Solano County ) to 85% (San Francisco )
[126]
Hundreds of people turn out in San Francisco (pictured) ,
Oakland and
Berkeley , protesting the election of
Donald Trump to the presidency, blocking freeways, lighting fires and chanting, "Not our president" and "Fuck Trump"
[127]
Half the students at
Berkeley High School , as well as students at
Oakland Technical High School , Oakland's
Bishop O'Dowd High School , and high schools in
San Jose and
Contra Costa County
walk out of classes the morning after Donald Trump is elected president
[128]
The cities of San Francisco,
Oakland and
Albany pass 1 cent/ounce
soda taxes , to combat health risks from excessive sugar consumption
[129]
Protesters against President-Elect Donald Trump join hands around
Lake Merritt in
Oakland
[130]
Mayor
Ed Lee declares that San Francisco will remain a
sanctuary city , in response to the election of
Donald Trump as president, stating, "I know that there are a lot of people who are angry and frustrated and fearful, but our city's never been about that. We have been and always have been a city of refuge, a city of sanctuary, a city of love."
[131]
With the approval of both companies' shareholders,
Tesla Motors will merge with
SolarCity , which will expedite
Elon Musk 's plans to introduce solar roofing tiles to integrate with home automobile charging
[132]
An American-born, non-Muslim woman in
Fremont , finds a note on her car, reading "Hijab wearing bitch this is our nation now get the fuck out", after making a
peace walk to the top of
Mission Peak , where presumably the note writer had observed her wearing a head scarf, which she wears to protect her scalp from the sun, due to having
lupus . The incident is part of a wave of 437 incidents of hateful intimidation or harassment, since the presidential election, according to the
Southern Poverty Law Center
[133]
During a concert at the
SAP Center at San Jose ,
Kanye West is booed by shoe-throwing fans, as he goes on a political tirade, including stating that he had not voted in the presidential election, but that "If I would have voted, I would have voted for
Trump "
[134]
San Jose teacher and transgender activist Dana Rivers (formerly David Warfield), who made headlines in 1999 for fighting unsuccessfully to keep a teaching position in
Sacramento after sharing her transition with her high school students, is arrested in
Oakland , charged with the murders of 3 acquaintances: married couple Patricia Wright and Charlotte Reed, and their 19-year-old son, Toto Diambu-Wright
[135]
[136]
Robert P. Goldman, professor of
Sanskrit at the
University of California, Berkeley , publishes the 7th and final volume of his translation of the
critical edition of
Valmikis epic poem, the
Ramayana , one of the foundational texts in the
history of India , with core themes dating back to the
Vedic period
[137]
Copies of an
anti-Muslim letter are sent to the Evergreen Islamic Center in
San Jose , and
Islamic Centers in
Long Beach and
Claremont , reading, in part, "Your day of reckoning has arrived, there's a new sheriff in town — President Donald Trump. He's going to cleanse America and make it shine again. And, he's going to start with you Muslims... [he is] going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the jews [sic]."
[138]
A liberal household in
Concord is targeted at night by vandals, who plant 56 United States flags defaced with
pro-Trump remarks such as "
Build The Damn Wall " and "I Luv The Donald", and who then cut the house's power, causing a loud explosion
[139]
The
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is hit by
hackers , using
ransomware , demanding $70,000 in
bitcoins , with fare machines reading "OUT OF SERVICE", resulting in passengers riding for free
[140]
San Francisco area activist
Gregory Lee Johnson , the defendant in the landmark 1989
Supreme Court decision
Texas v. Johnson abolishing laws against flag burning on free speech grounds, declares that
Donald Trump is "using the bully pulpit for fascism and forced patriotism", after Trump tweets "Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag — if they do, there must be consequences — perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!"
Donald Trump is a ‘fascist,’ says landmark Supreme Court case ‘flag-burner’ Gregory Lee Johnson
December
A fire at an Oakland warehouse (pictured) , which was hosting a music event, kills 36 people, the deadliest fire in
Oakland history .
[141]
The Biomimetic Millisystems Lab at the
University of California, Berkeley designs a wall-jumping robot, called Salto (Latin for jump), modelled after the
galago , and which is described as the most vertically agile robot ever built
[142]
[143]
[144]
John Stewart, chief judge at the
San Francisco Superior Court , discards 66,000 arrest warrants for criminal infractions, like sleeping on the sidewalk, public urination and public drunkenness, stating "You're putting somebody in jail because they're poor and can't pay a fine. We got a lot of criticism, but we thought it was the right thing to do."
[145]
More than 300
Silicon Valley technology company employees
sign a letter declaring they will not help build a registry , for the upcoming
Trump Administration , to be used to track
Muslims in the United States , stating "We refuse to build a database of people based on their Constitutionally-protected religious beliefs. We refuse to facilitate mass deportations of people the government believes to be undesirable"
[146]
Uber rolled out
self-driving cars (test vehicle pictured) in San Francisco, its headquarter city, and is almost immediately ordered to stop the service by the
California Department of Motor Vehicles , which cited it as illegal until an autonomous vehicle testing permit is acquired
[147]
Yahoo reports that hackers had, in 2013, stolen data on more than 1 billion user accounts, the largest hack worldwide to date
[148]
Apple ,
Google ,
Uber and
Twitter all took the
Never Again pledge , declaring that they will not support the development of a registry of
Muslims in the United States as proposed by President-Elect
Donald Trump
[149]
Scientists at
Stanford University and the
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory created the world's thinnest wire, 3 atoms thick, using
diamondoids to aid the manufacturing process
[150]
2017
Kevin Starr
Trump inauguration protest SF Jan 20 2017 23
"Bridge Together Golden Gate"
San Bruno explosion and fires, at night
Protesters at San Francisco International Airport, 2017
Representative Mike Honda speaks at a San Francisco protest of Executive_Order_13769 in February 2017
Series of Storms Battering California Tracked by NASA's AIRS Instrument
Third Street, San Francisco
Anderson Lake dam and spillway
Warm Springs BART station on opening day
The United States of America , Arthur Szyk (1945)
Robert Taylor in 2008
Customers waiting to purchase the Tesla 3 in Walnut Creek, California
Satellite image of smoke from California wildfires
Acting San Francisco Mayor London Breed
January
After a series of storms hit California, including January storms causing flooding on the
Russian River , Northern California, including the Bay Area, is no longer in drought
[151]
The Land Trust of
Napa County , with The Trust for Public Land, secures the largest conservation easement in its history, 7,260 acres northeast of
Calistoga known as Montesol Ranch, near
Mount St. Helena , and contiguous to
Robert Louis Stevenson State Park
[152]
Kevin Starr (pictured) , American historian and California's State Librarian, best known for his multi-volume series on the
history of California , collectively called "Americans and the California Dream", dies in San Francisco, the home of his birth as a seventh-generation Californian
[153]
Protests of the presidential inauguration of
Donald Trump occur in cities across the Bay Area (SF protest pictured) ,
[154] including local versions of the
Women's March on Washington ,
[155] a human chain along the span of the
Golden Gate Bridge (pictured) ,
[156] and a 90% no show of dockworkers at the
Port of Oakland
[157]
Due to severe storms, Governor
Jerry Brown declares states of emergency in multiple counties, including all nine Bay Area counties:
Alameda ,
Contra Costa ,
Marin ,
Napa , San Francisco,
San Mateo ,
Santa Clara ,
Solano , and
Sonoma counties
[158]
The cities of
Oakland , San Francisco,
San Jose , and
Berkeley affirm their formal (for San Jose, informal) status as
Sanctuary cities , after a
Trump Administration executive order is issued that will require cities to cooperate with
Immigration and Customs Enforcement orders, or face cuts to federal spending, more than $1 billion in the Bay Area alone
[159]
Pacific Gas and Electric is ordered by U.S. District Judge
Thelton Henderson to publicly advertise its guilt in violating pipeline safety laws, and obstruction of justice, in the
2010 San Bruno explosion (fires that night pictured) , pay $3 million in fines, and make its employees perform 10,000 hours of community service, including at least 2,000 hours by high-level officials
[160]
Google, Inc. recalls all staff travelling overseas who may be affected by President Trump's
executive order suspending all entry of citizens from certain Middle Eastern nations , out of concern they may be barred from re-entry to the US
[161]
Protesters of the
executive order suspending entry of certain foreign nationals are joined at
San Francisco International Airport by
Sergey Brin ,
Google co-founder and president of
Alphabet , who states "I'm here because I'm a refugee",
[162] while the airport issues a statement in support of the protesters, saying "We share [[their]] concerns deeply, as our highest obligation is to the millions of people from around the world whom we serve. Although Customs and Border Protection services are strictly federal and operate outside the jurisdiction of all U.S. airports, including SFO, we have requested a full briefing from this agency to ensure our customers remain the top priority. We are also making supplies available to travelers affected by this Executive Order, as well as to the members of the public who have so bravely taken a stand against this action by speaking publicly in our facilities." (protesters pictured)
[163]
San Francisco becomes the first city to sue the
Trump Administration over his executive order to deny federal funds to
sanctuary cities , joining 2 states that have sued
[164]
February
The
University of California, Berkeley cancels a talk by inflammatory speaker and
Breitbart writer
Milo Yiannopoulos , and puts the campus on lockdown, due to massive protests, violence, property destruction and fire-setting
[2]
Berkeley mayor
Jesse Arreguín receives thousands of hateful, racist, abusive and threatening messages, including death threats, following his criticism of
Milo Yiannopoulos ' attempted talk at
UC Berkeley , initially describing him as a
white nationalist , then apologizing and changing the description to "
alt-rightist "
[165]
Thousands attend a protest at
Civic Center, San Francisco to
protest the immigration/travel ban on seven majority-Muslim nations (US Representative
Mike Honda , pictured at event) , one of a number of nationwide protests against the ban
[166]
In San Francisco, three judges on the
9th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reject the US Government argument that a stay of the
executive order barring nationals from seven majority-Muslim nations should be lifted, stating that any argument limiting or dismissing the courts ability to serve as a check on
Executive Branch power "runs contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy"
[167]
Historically strong
Pineapple Express storms bring flooding and mudslides to the Bay Area, destroying homes and closing numerous roads, including
State Route 17 ,
State Route 35 ,
State Route 37 ,
Interstate 80 ,
State Route 12 ,
State Route 1 ,
State Route 84 ,
State Route 9 , and
State Route 152 (storm systems pictured)
[168]
[169]
California Governor
Jerry Brown requests a
Presidential Major Disaster Declaration from President
Donald Trump , following a series of storms that hit California, including the Bay Area
[170]
The
Kunal Patel San Francisco Open has its first tournament, at the Bay Club SF Tennis Center, part of the
ATP Challenger Tour
[171]
The
United States Patent Office rules that the
Broad Institute 's patent claims on the
CRISPR gene manipulation technology are valid for
Eukaryotic cells (plants and animals), ruling against claims made by the
University of California, Berkeley , and granting UC Berkeley a patent limited to its use on
Prokaryotic cells (bacteria)
[172]
Thousands gather at
Ocean Beach in San Francisco, to stand together
in protest against Donald Trump and spell out the word "
Resist !! ", with overflow crowds creating an underline
[173]
A Day without Immigrants , modeled on the
Great American Boycott of 2006, protesting the
Trump Administration immigration policy, has businesses across the Bay Area closing in solidarity with the nationwide day of action
[174]
San Francisco is ranked third in traffic congestion of all major US cities, according to the traffic and driver analytics company
INRIX (Third Street congestion pictured)
[175]
More than 200 residents are rescued by boat, in the Rocksprings neighborhood of San Jose, due to flooding at
Coyote Creek from storm water released at
Anderson Lake (dam and spillway pictured)
[176] Over 14,000 households are subject to mandatory evacuation due to widespread flooding that exceeds the
100-year flood zone
[177]
Richmond is the first city in the United States to pass a resolution calling on the
United States Congress to investigate, and if necessary, impeach, President
Donald Trump , for violating the
Foreign Emoluments Clause of the
United States Constitution in his international business relations
[178]
Santa Clara County is the first county in the nation to file a motion requesting that a Federal judge halt implementation of the Trump Administration's executive order withholding federal funding for
sanctuary cities
[179]
The Jewish
Anti-Defamation League offices in San Francisco receive two consecutive bomb threats, as do other Bay Area
Jewish community centers, part of a widespread wave of over 100 threats and criminal actions directed against the US Jewish community in 2017
[180]
[181]
[182]
March
House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi , from
California's 12th congressional district in San Francisco, and other senior Democratic congressional leaders, call on
United States Attorney General
Jeff Sessions to resign, following reports that he had lied under oath to Congress about phone contacts he had had with Russian officials prior to taking his post, and during the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, for who he campaigned
[183]
Violence at a
Berkeley
March 4 Trump rally results in injuries to 7, and the arrests of 10 people
[3]
The
Warm Springs / South Fremont
Bay Area Rapid Transit station (pictured) begins operating in
Fremont
[184]
Berkeley is the first city in the US to declare they will refuse to conduct business with companies that are involved with the
US/Mexico border wall proposed by President Trump , and will move to divest from those companies that they have investments in
[185]
The
National Football League approves the
Oakland Raiders
move from Oakland to Las Vegas, Nevada , once a new stadium is constructed there, despite efforts by Oakland Mayor
Libby Schaaf to create financing for a new stadium complex in Oakland
[186]
April
A collection of the works of
Arthur Szyk (work pictured) , consisting of 450 paintings, drawings and sketches owned by
Burlingame Rabbi
Irvin Ungar , is purchased for $10.1 million by the
University of California, Berkeley 's
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life , through a donation by Taube Philanthropies, the largest single monetary gift to acquire art in UC Berkeley history
[187]
[188]
Santa Clara County and San Francisco ask U.S. District Judge
William Orrick to
block an executive order by President
Donald Trump that threatens to deny federal funding to
sanctuary cities and counties, arguing that it violates the
Constitution and federal laws
[189]
Suicide barriers begin to be installed under the
Golden Gate Bridge after years of debate and delays.
[190]
At least 21 people are arrested, and 7 hospitalized, at a
clash between approximately 200 Pro-Trump and Anti-Trump demonstrators in
Berkeley , at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park, during which numerous fights broke out, with reports of the use of firecrackers and pepper spray
[191]
[192]
Computer scientist
Robert W. Taylor (pictured) , who was integral in the development of the Internet, and who founded the
Digital Equipment Corporation
Systems Research Center in
Palo Alto , dies at his home in
Woodside
[193]
Women's clothing retailer
Bebe begins closing all 175 of its stores, to become an exclusively online retailer
[194]
[195]
The area's first officially sanctioned "
Weed Day " takes place in San Francisco's
Golden Gate Park
[196]
Tens of thousands turn out in San Francisco on
Earth Day at the local
March for Science , to protest federal budget cuts to science research, with
Mythbusters host
Adam Savage saying "The enemy of science isn't politics or a party or an ideology or a law — it is bias, and bias is everywhere. Science is the rigorous elimination of bias. That is a good thing."
[197]
In response to requests by
Santa Clara County and San Francisco, U.S. District Judge
William Orrick temporarily blocks
Executive Order 13768 , which had threatened to deny federal funding to
sanctuary cities , writing "The statements of the President, his press secretary and the Attorney General belie the Government's argument in the briefing that the Order does not change the law. They have repeatedly indicated an intent to defund sanctuary jurisdictions in compliance with the Executive Order."..."The threat of the Order and the uncertainty it is causing impermissibly interferes with the Counties' ability to operate, to provide key services, to plan for the future, and to budget."
[198]
[199]
May
At least 80
leopard sharks wash up dead on the shores of San Francisco Bay, possibly due to a fungal infection, with likely as many as 1,000 dying and sinking since early March
[200]
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
A data breach at
Stanford University reveals that the university
secretly ranked fellowship applicants on their potential value to the university , rather than the university's publicly stated method of by need
[212]
Silicon Valley software engineer
Susan Fowler and San Francisco lobbyist Adama Iwu are featured, with other women, on the cover of
Time 's 2017
Person of the Year issue, this year given to "The Silence Breakers", people who spoke out against sexual abuse and harassment
[213]
San Francisco Mayor
Ed Lee , the city's first
Asian-American mayor, dies from a heart attack, with
San Francisco Board of Supervisors president
London Breed (pictured) sworn in as acting mayor
[214]
[215]
[216]
Senator
Dianne Feinstein formally asks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement to investigate the
West County Detention Center , where multiple federal detainees have stated that they were not allowed to use restrooms. Feinstein wrote, "It has been reported that the conditions are so deplorable that detainees are requesting deportation over pursuing claims in immigration court"
[217]
Buddy's Cannabis Shop, in
San Jose , is the first California business to obtain a state Marijuana Micro-Business License, which, along with a city business license, will make it the first fully licensed
recreational marijuana shop in California , when it becomes legal on 1 January 2018
[218]
[219]
Everitt Aaron Jameson, a 25-year-old former marine, is arrested by the FBI on suspicion of planning a terror attack in the
Pier 39 area of San Francisco over Christmas.
[220]
2018
Performance art, 2016, San Francisco
Women's March, 2018
San Francisco interim Mayor Mark Farrell
London Breed
Ron Dellums
January
Starting January 1, with the
Adult Use of Marijuana Act going into effect statewide,
Harborside Health Center ,
Berkeley Patients Group , and many other
Marijuana dispensaries in the Bay Area begin retail sales of Marijuana to the general public
[4] (public performer on 2016 Independence Day pictured)
Parks in the
Golden Gate National Recreation Area , including
Muir Woods National Monument and
Fort Point National Historic Site , experience partial or total closure, due to the
January 2018 United States federal government shutdown
[221]
More than 150,000 people attend
2018 Women's March protests across the Bay Area, adding the
#MeToo and
#TimesUp movements to the protests against President
Donald Trump (San Francisco event pictured)
Bay Area women take to the streets in second annual march
The
San Francisco Board of Supervisors votes to replace acting mayor
London Breed with an interim mayor, former supervisor
Mark Farrell (pictured) , amid accusations of racism
Political Uproar as Mark Farrell Replaces London Breed as S.F. Mayor
San Jose mayor
Sam Liccardo resigns from the
Federal Communications Commission Broadband Advisory Board, citing undue influence from telecommunications companies
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo quits FCC broadband advisory board
San Francisco District Attorney
George Gascón announces his department will begin to retroactively apply
Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act , which legalized the possession and recreational use of marijuana for adults ages 21 years or older, to misdemeanor and felony convictions dating back to 1975, recalling and re-sentencing up to 4,940 felony marijuana convictions and dismissing and sealing 3,038 misdemeanors
[222]
February
The
Berkeley City Council declares Berkeley a "
sanctuary city " for recreational cannabis sales, prohibiting the use of city resources to assist in enforcing federal marijuana laws or providing information on legal cannabis sales, the first city in California to do so
[223]
Marin County is ranked worst among all California counties in racial disparity, according to Race Counts and
Advancement Project California, with a spokesperson for the groups stating, "We were surprised, and were not expecting Marin to be the number-one county in terms of disparity...It's not that progressive counties have it all figured out"
[224]
Alameda County District Attorney
Nancy O'Malley announces that her office will review thousands of marijuana convictions, dating back to 1974, for possible dismissal under
Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act , guidelines, following closely after San Francisco announced a similar plan (above)
[225]
Oakland Mayor
Libby Schaaf alerts city residents to imminent
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, earning criticism from some federal authorities. She responds, "I was sharing information in a way that was legal and was not obstructing justice, and it was an opportunity to ensure that people were aware of their rights."
[226]
March
May
Two studies conclude that the
housing crisis in the Bay Area and
California is reaching emergency proportions, with one study estimating that two counties alone,
Santa Clara and
Alameda , will need more than 50,000 new homes to meet the demand for affordable housing for lower-income residents, while homelessness increased by 36% in Alameda County from 2016-2017
[228]
The father of some of the ten children that were removed from a home in
Fairfield , where they were living in conditions of severe neglect and abuse, is arrested and booked on seven counts of torture and nine counts of felony child abuse
[229]
A nine-story electronic sculpture, "Day for Night", created by artist
Jim Campbell , that features low resolution, abstract videos of San Francisco, debuts at the top of
Salesforce Tower
[230]
[231]
June
San Francisco voters pass an ordinance banning the sale of flavored tobacco products, due in part to concerns that candy-flavored products may lure teenagers into nicotine addiction
[232]
Santa Clara County voters remove
Santa Clara County Superior Court judge
Aaron Persky , who came to national attention in 2016 when
he sentenced a Stanford University student to just six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman
[233]
London Breed (pictured) is elected
Mayor of San Francisco in a special election, defeating close rival
Mark Leno
[234]
Theranos founder and CEO
Elizabeth Holmes , and former president and COO
Ramesh Balwani are indicted on charges of wire fraud, accused of carrying out a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud investors, doctors and patients. Theranos announced that Holmes would resign as CEO, but retain her position as chairwoman of the board
[235]
Hanabiko "Koko " , a female
western lowland gorilla born at the
San Francisco Zoo , who was known for having learned a large number of hand signs from a modified version of
American Sign Language . dies at her home in
Woodside, California
[236]
July
August
September
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
See also
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