• 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