• 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
• The
C. H. Brown Theater opens in the
Mission District, San Francisco
•
Samuel Merritt College is founded in
Oakland as a hospital school of nursing
•
San Francisco Law School is founded
• The neighborhood of
Thousand Oaks, a refugee camp from the
1906 San Francisco earthquake adjacent to
Albany and
Berkeley, is first
subdivided