• 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