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Years
1959
Embarcadero Freeway
Montgomery Block, 1862
Henry Coe skyline
The
Embarcadero Freeway
(pictured)
opens in San Francisco, the same year the
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
votes to cancel seven of ten planned freeways
The
Montgomery Block
building
(pictured)
in San Francisco is demolished
Henry W. Coe State Park
(pictured)
, in the
Diablo Range
in
Santa Clara
and
Stanislaus
counties, is established
Jack London State Historic Park
, on the eastern slope of
Sonoma Mountain
, is established
The
Crown-Zellerbach Building
in San Francisco is completed
The
San Francisco Mime Troupe
is formed in San Francisco, performing (despite its name) musical
political satire
Union City
is incorporated in
Alameda County
Owen Chamberlain
and
Emilio Segrè
at the
University of California, Berkeley
are awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physics
for their discovery of the
antiproton
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