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2015
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Golden Gate Bridge median
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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."
[9]
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
[10]
The
College of Environmental Design at
UC Berkeley unveils a 9' high
3D printed sculpture, entitled "Bloom", the first printed structure of its type.
[11]
[12]
[13]
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
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
[14]
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
[15]
Author and community activist
Eddy Zheng is pardoned by governor Brown, for crimes he committed at age 16
[16]
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.”
[17]
The World War II era aircraft carrier
USS Independence (pictured) is rediscovered near the
Farallon Islands by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[18]
Doctors Medical Center in
San Pablo closes
[19]
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
[20]
[21]
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 some
San Francisco Police Department officers may have shown racial bias, based on their having sent racist and homophobic text messages
[22]
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
[23]
The
Regional Renewable Energy Procurement Project dedicates its first project, a future
solar farm at
Hayward's former landfill site
[24]
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
[25]
[26]
[27]
Oakland based
start-up
Next Thing Co. raises over $1.5m in its
Kickstarter campaign for its forthcoming $9 miniature computer, Chip
[28]
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
[29]
Vandals damage an inflatable dam across
Alameda Creek in
Fremont , releasing 50 million gallons of drinking water into San Francisco Bay
[30]
The
Solar Energy Research Center opens at the newly built
Chu Hall at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in
Berkeley
[31]
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
Surgeons at
University of California, San Francisco and
California Pacific Medical Center successfully complete 18 surgeries in the nation's first nine-way, two-day kidney transplant chain in a single city
[32]
[33]
[34]
Six people are killed and eight are injured , some with life-threatening injuries, after a balcony collapses in
Berkeley , near the campus of the
University of California, Berkeley ; five of the casualties are
Irish students.
(NBC News) ,
(AP)
The
Golden State Warriors win the
National Basketball Association Finals against the
Cleveland Cavaliers , their first championship since 1975
The surviving members of the
Grateful Dead play the first concerts of their
Fare Thee Well
farewell tour , celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Dead, at
Santa Clara 's
Levi's Stadium
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