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Elected San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi dies at the age of 59.
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Rainstorms cause the Russian River to flood, engulfing the town of Guerneville in the highest floodwaters in 25 years
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Starting January 1, with the
Adult Use of Marijuana Act going into effect statewide, Harborside Health Center, The Berkeley Patients Group, and many other
Marijuana dispensaries in the Bay Area begin retail sales of Marijuana to the general public
[4](public performer on 2016 Independence Day pictured)
More than 150,000 people attend
2018 Women's March protests across the Bay Area, adding the
#MeToo and
#TimesUp movements to the protests against President
Donald Trump(San Francisco event pictured)[6]
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announces his department will begin to retroactively apply
Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, which legalized the possession and recreational use of marijuana for adults ages 21 years or older, to misdemeanor and felony convictions dating back to 1975, recalling and re-sentencing up to 4,940 felony marijuana convictions and dismissing and sealing 3,038 misdemeanors
[9]
The Berkeley City Council declares Berkeley a "
sanctuary city" for recreational cannabis sales, prohibiting the use of city resources to assist in enforcing federal marijuana laws or providing information on legal cannabis sales, the first city in California to do so
[10]
Marin County is ranked worst among all California counties in racial disparity, according to Race Counts and
Advancement Project California, with a spokesperson for the groups stating, "We were surprised, and were not expecting Marin to be the number-one county in terms of disparity...It’s not that progressive counties have it all figured out"
[11]
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf alerts city residents to imminent
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, earning criticism from some federal authorities. She responds, "I was sharing information in a way that was legal and was not obstructing justice, and it was an opportunity to ensure that people were aware of their rights."
[13]
Two studies conclude that the housing crisis in the Bay Area and
California is reaching emergency proportions, with one study estimating that two counties alone, Santa Clara and Alameda, will need more than 50,000 new homes to meet the demand for affordable housing for lower-income residents, while homelessness increased by 36% in Alameda County from 2016-2017
[15]
The father of some of the ten children that were removed from a home in Fairfield, where they were living in conditions of severe neglect and abuse, is arrested and booked on seven counts of torture and nine counts of felony child abuse
[16]
A nine-story electronic sculpture, "Day for Night", created by artist
Jim Campbell, that features low resolution, abstract videos of San Francisco, debuts at the top of Salesforce Tower[17][18]
San Francisco voters pass an ordinance banning the sale of flavored tobacco products, due in part to concerns that candy-flavored products may lure teenagers into nicotine addiction
[19]
Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, and former president and COO Ramesh Balwani are indicted on charges of wire fraud, accused of carrying out a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud investors, doctors and patients. Theranos announced that Holmes would resign as CEO, but retain her position as chairwoman of the board
[22]
Nia Wilson, an African American woman, is killed while exiting MacArthur BART station, when a white male attacked her and one of her two sisters with her, with strong suspicions that this was a racially motivated hate crime
[25]
Ron Dellums(pictured), former East Bay US Representative and mayor of Oakland, known for his fiery anti-
Vietnam War oratory and progressive politics, dies at his home in Washington, D.C.
[26][27]
A study by the
California Association of Realtors shows that only about 1 in 5 Bay Area residents can afford the median purchase price for a home, with state home affordability rates at a 10 year low
[30]
A jury in San Francisco awards 46-year-old former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson
US$289m in
damages againstMonsanto, after alleging that it had spent decades hiding the cancer-causing dangers of its
Roundup herbicides[31]
After a series of storms hit California, including January storms causing flooding on the Russian River, Northern California, including the Bay Area, is no longer in drought
[32]
Kevin Starr(pictured),
Americanhistorian and California's State Librarian, best known for his multi-volume series on the
history of California, collectively called "Americans and the California Dream", dies in San Francisco, the home of his birth as a seventh-generation Californian
[34]
Pacific Gas and Electric is ordered by U.S. District Judge
Thelton Henderson to publicly advertise its guilt in violating pipeline safety laws, and obstruction of justice, in the 2010 San Bruno explosion(fires that night pictured), pay $3 million in fines, and make its employees perform 10,000 hours of community service, including at least 2,000 hours by high-level officials
[41]
Protesters of the
executive order suspending entry of certain foreign nationals are joined at San Francisco International Airport by Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and president of Alphabet, who states "I'm here because I'm a refugee"
[43], while the airport issues a statement in support of the protesters, saying "We share [[their]] concerns deeply, as our highest obligation is to the millions of people from around the world whom we serve. Although Customs and Border Protection services are strictly federal and operate outside the jurisdiction of all U.S. airports, including SFO, we have requested a full briefing from this agency to ensure our customers remain the top priority. We are also making supplies available to travelers affected by this Executive Order, as well as to the members of the public who have so bravely taken a stand against this action by speaking publicly in our facilities." (protesters pictured)[44]
San Francisco becomes the first city to sue the
Trump Administration over his executive order to deny federal funds to
sanctuary cities, joining 2 states that have sued
[45]
San Francisco is ranked third in traffic congestion of all major US cities, according to the traffic and driver analytics company
INRIX(Third Street congestion pictured)[57]
More than 200 residents are rescued by boat, in the Rocksprings neighborhood of San Jose, due to flooding at Coyote Creek from storm water released at Anderson Lake(dam and spillway pictured).
[58] Over 14,000 households are subject to mandatory evacuation due to widespread flooding that exceeds the
100-year flood zone[59]
Santa Clara County is the first county in the nation to file a motion requesting that a Federal judge halt implementation of the Trump Administration's executive order withholding federal funding for
sanctuary cities[61]
The Jewish
Anti-Defamation League offices in San Francisco receive two consecutive bomb threats, as do other Bay Area
Jewish community centers, part of a widespread wave of over 100 threats and criminal actions directed against the US Jewish community in 2017
[62][63][64]
Berkeley is the first city in the US to declare they will refuse to conduct business with companies that are involved with the
US/Mexico border wall proposed by President Trump, and will move to divest from those companies that they have investments in
[67]
Tens of thousands turn out in San Francisco on
Earth Day at the local
March for Science, to protest federal budget cuts to science research, with
Mythbusters host Adam Savage saying "The enemy of science isn't politics or a party or an ideology or a law — it is bias, and bias is everywhere. Science is the rigorous elimination of bias. That is a good thing."
[79]
In response to requests by Santa Clara County and San Francisco, U.S. District Judge William Orrick temporarily blocks
Executive Order 13768, which had threatened to deny federal funding to
sanctuary cities, writing "The statements of the President, his press secretary and the Attorney General belie the Government's argument in the briefing that the Order does not change the law. They have repeatedly indicated an intent to defund sanctuary jurisdictions in compliance with the Executive Order."..."The threat of the Order and the uncertainty it is causing impermissibly interferes with the Counties’ ability to operate, to provide key services, to plan for the future, and to budget."
[80][81]
At least 80
leopard sharks wash up dead on the shores of San Francisco Bay, possibly due to a fungal infection, with likely as many as 1,000 dying and sinking since early March
[82]
Fourteen large wildfires, including the Atlas and Tubbs Fires, spread over a 200-mile region north of San Francisco, in Napa, Sonoma and
Yuba counties, kill at least 10 people and destroy over 1,500 structures (satellite image of smoke from fires pictured)[91]
A rare
mountain lion spotted in San Francisco is tranquilized and released into the wild, far south of the city
[92]
The wealthiest 1% now owns more than 50% of the world's wealth, with younger people suffering some of the worst inequality. Per the
Credit Suisse report, "The outlook for the millionaire segment is more optimistic than for the bottom of the wealth pyramid." The Bay Area remains part of the world, according to most experts.
[93]
Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an undocumented immigrant, is found not guilty of murder for the 2015 shooting of Kathryn Steinle on a San Francisco pier, in a case that had touched off a national immigration debate.
[95]
Silicon Valley software engineer Susan Fowler and San Francisco lobbyist Adama Iwu are featured, with other women, on the cover of Time's 2017
Person of the Year issue, this year given to "The Silence Breakers", people who spoke out against sexual abuse and harassment
[97]
Senator Dianne Feinstein formally asks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement to investigate the West County Detention Center, where multiple federal detainees have stated that they were not allowed to use restrooms. Feinstein wrote, “It has been reported that the conditions are so deplorable that detainees are requesting deportation over pursuing claims in immigration court”
[101]
Buddy's Cannabis Shop, in San Jose, is the first California business to obtain a state Marijuana Micro-Business License, which, along with a city business license, will make it the first fully licensed
recreational marijuana shop in California, when it becomes legal on 1 January 2018
[102][103]
Everitt Aaron Jameson, a 25-year-old former marine, is arrested by the FBI on suspicion of planning a terror attack in the Pier 39 area of San Francisco over Christmas
[104]
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, including Peidong Yang, announce they were able to induce Moorella thermoacetica to photosynthesize, despite its not being photosynthetic. It also synthesized semiconductor nanoparticles, thus using light to produce chemical products other than those produced in photosynthesis.
[105]
A federal court jury in San Francisco finds Raymond Chow Kwok-cheung guilty of all 162 charges against him, including murder, after a five year long undercover federal operation
[106]
Hundreds of pages of University of California, Berkeley records are released, showing a pattern of documented sexual harassment and firings of non-tenured staff
[113]
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passes a parental leave law requiring employers to offer six weeks of fully paid leave for new parents, the first city in the US to do so
[114]
Napster founder and philanthropist Sean Parker donates $250 million to create the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, with funds going to over 300 scientists at 40 laboratories, in 6 institutions, including the University of California at San Francisco[117]
A poll of 1,000 people, by the Bay Area Council, showed that 34 percent are considering leaving the area, due primarily to the high costs of living and housing, and traffic
[120]
It is revealed that the
FBI hid microphones outside an Oakland Alameda County Superior Courtbuilding(pictured), between March 2010 and January 2011, as part of an investigation into bid rigging and fraud by Alameda and San Mateo County real estate investors, this done without a warrant
[123]
Pittsburg moves to install surveillance cameras along California State Route 4, in response to a series of 20 freeway shootings in the area that have taken the lives of six people, and injured 11, in the past year
[126]
The San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority's ballot measure, the San Francisco Bay Clean Water, Pollution Prevention, and Habitat Restoration Program, passes with 2/3 of the vote in the 9 Bay Area counties, providing $500 million in funding for wetland restoration and other projects
[130]
Oakland Police Departmentchief Sean Whent steps down, while the department is being investigated for an alleged sex scandal possibly involving an underage girl, following the suicide of one officer associated with the scandal
[133]
In San Francisco's highly volatile housing market, a North Beach resident's rent is increased by 344%, from $1,800 a month to $8,000, with him facing eviction for nonpayment
[135]
The Sonoma Stompersprofessional baseball team add two female players to their roster, outfielder-pitcher Kelsie Whitmore and infielder Stacy Piagno, the first women to play professional baseball for a mixed-gender team in the US since the 1950s
[138]
San Francisco bans the sale of products made from
expanded polystyrene(typical pollution pictured), including packing material, buoys and cups, the most stringent ban on
Styrofoam-type plastics in the US
[139]
The San Francisco Millennium Tower(pictured) is found to have sunk 16 inches since construction, and is tilting 2 inches towards the northwest
[143]
California declares that Napa County, and California, are free of the invasive species Lobesia botrana(pictured), known as the "European grapevine moth", with no moths found since June 2014
[144]
Governor
Jerry Brown signs legislation banning the use of state transportation funds for new coal export terminals, in response to a developer's failed proposal to build a coal terminal at the Port of Oakland[146]
Discovery Bay former realtor Marco Gutierrez, the co-founder of Latinos for
Trump, says to
Joy Reid on
MSNBC that Mexican culture in the US is "dominant" and that “If you don’t do something about it, you’re going to have
taco trucks on every corner"
[150]
Influential San Francisco political activist and broker Rose Pak, an advocate for the Chinatown community, dies in San Francisco
[151]
Theranos announces it will close its laboratory operations, shutter its wellness centers and lay off around 40 percent of its work force, while focusing on an initiative to create miniature medical testing machines
[158]
A new California law, authored by San JoseAssemblywomanNora Campos(pictured), will allow San Jose to be the first California city to create
"tiny homes" for the homeless, bypassing some state building codes
[160]
The
US Justice Department’s
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services releases a 432 page report stating that the San Francisco Police Department stops and searches African Americans at a higher rate than other groups, and inadequately investigates officers use of force. The report details "numerous indicators of implicit and institutionalized bias against minority groups," with a large majority of suspects killed by police being people of color
[162]
Wells Fargo chairman and CEO John Stumpf announces he will retire, shortly after the bank is issued $185 million in fines for creating over 1.5 million checking and savings accounts and 500,000 credit cards that its customers never authorized. This includes $100 million in fines from the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the largest in the agency's history
[164]
Tesla Motors posts a profitable quarter, their first in 8 quarters, defying industry expectations
[165]
The nine Bay Area counties all vote overwhelmingly for
Hillary Clinton for president, from 62% (Solano County) to 85% (San Francisco)
[167]
Hundreds of people turn out in San Francisco (pictured), Oakland and Berkeley, protesting the election of
Donald Trump to the presidency, blocking freeways, lighting fires and chanting, "Not our president" and "Fuck Trump"
[168]
MayorEd Lee declares that San Francisco will remain a
sanctuary city, in response to the election of
Donald Trump as president, stating, "I know that there are a lot of people who are angry and frustrated and fearful, but our city's never been about that. We have been and always have been a city of refuge, a city of sanctuary, a city of love."
[172]
With the approval of both company's shareholders, Tesla Motors will merge with SolarCity, which will expedite Elon Musk's plans to introduce solar roofing tiles to integrate with home automobile charging
[173]
An American-born, non-Muslim woman in Fremont, finds a note on her car, reading “Hijab wearing bitch this is our nation now get the fuck out", after making a
peace walk to the top of Mission Peak, where presumably the note writer had observed her wearing a head scarf, which she wears to protect her scalp from the sun, due to having
Lupus. The incident is part of a wave of 437 incidents of hateful intimidation or harassment, since the presidential election, according to the
Southern Poverty Law Center[174]
During a concert at the SAP Center at San Jose,
Kanye West is booed by shoe-throwing fans, as he goes on a political tirade, including stating that he had not voted in the presidential election, but that “If I would have voted,I would have voted for
Trump”
[175]
San Jose teacher and transgender activist Dana Rivers (formerly David Warfield), who made headlines in 1999 for fighting unsuccessfully to keep a teaching position in
Sacramento after sharing her transition with her high school students, is arrested in Oakland, charged with the murders of 3 acquaintances: married couple Patricia Wright and Charlotte Reed, and their 19 year old son, Toto Diambu-Wright
[176][177]
Copies of an
anti-Muslim letter are sent to the Evergreen Islamic Center in San Jose, and
Islamic Centers in
Long Beach and
Claremont, reading, in part, "Your day of reckoning has arrived, there’s a new sheriff in town — President Donald Trump. He’s going to cleanse America and make it shine again. And, he’s going to start with you Muslims... [he is] going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the jews [sic].”
[179]
A liberal household in Concord is targeted at night by vandals, who plant 56 United States flags defaced with
pro-Trump remarks such as "
Build The Damn Wall" and "I Luv The Donald", and who then cut the house's power, causing a loud explosion
[180]
San Francisco area activist Gregory Lee Johnson, the defendant in the landmark 1989
Supreme Court decision
Texas v. Johnson abolishing laws against flag burning on free speech grounds, declares that
Donald Trump is "using the bully pulpit for fascism and forced patriotism", after Trump tweets "Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag — if they do, there must be consequences — perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!"
[182]
The Biomimetic Millisystems Lab at the University of California, Berkeley designs a wall-jumping robot, called Salto (Latin for jump), modelled after the
galago, and which is described as the most vertically agile robot ever built
[184][185][186]
John Stewart, chief judge at the San Francisco Superior Court, discards 66,000 arrest warrants for criminal infractions, like sleeping on the sidewalk, public urination and public drunkenness, stating "You’re putting somebody in jail because they’re poor and can’t pay a fine. We got a lot of criticism, but we thought it was the right thing to do.”
[187]
Uber rolls out
self-driving cars(test vehicle pictured) in San Francisco, its headquarter city, and is almost immediately ordered to stop the service by the
California Department of Motor Vehicles, which cited it as illegal until an autonomous vehicle testing permit is acquired
[189]
Yahoo reports that hackers had, in 2013, stolen data on more than 1 billion user accounts, the largest hack worldwide to date
[190]
The UCSF Medical Center receives a philanthropic donation of $100 million from
Chuck Feeney, the largest gift by an individual in the history of the UC system.
[200]
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."
[201]
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
[202]
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
[206]
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
[214]
Former state senator Leland Yee pleads guilty to a federal racketeering charge, confessing to using his bids for secretary of state and
Mayor of San Francisco to extort bribes
[227]
San Francisco political consultant Ryan Chamberlain is apprehended by the FBI and the
San Francisco Police Department after explosive materials are allegedly discovered in his apartment
Amelia Rose Earhart(pictured) departs from
Oakland on June 26, and lands back in Oakland on July 1, successfully recreating her namesake
Amelia Earhart's unsuccessful 1937 circumnavigation of the Earth
Livermore golf coach Andrew Nisbet is sentenced to 27 years in prison on charges of molesting three of his juvenile students, and then plotting to kill them while being held in jail
[235]
Susan Xiao-Ping Su, founder and former president of the defunct
Pleasanton-based Tri-Valley University, is sentenced to 16 years in prison for
visa and mail fraud
Up to 18,000 nurses from at least 21 Kaiser Permanente hospitals and 35 clinics around the Bay Area go on strike, citing issues with patient care standards and
Ebola safeguards
909 members of the San Francisco-based People's Temple die, primarily from cyanide poisoning, at an agricultural project coined Jonestown in
Guyana, following the murder of five others by Temple members at
Port Kaituma, including United States Congressman Leo Ryan(pictured) of the Bay Area
16 people are killed, during a string of racially motivated attacks, dubbed the Zebra murders, committed by African-American men against mostly white victims, in San Francisco, continuing into 1974
World War II enlistment commences in the Bay Area (San Francisco recruiting office pictured)
A two-masted schooner, Benicia, built in
Tahiti by a shipwright who had worked in Matthew Turner'sBenicia shipyard, arrives in San Francisco under the French flag
The Xerces Blue butterfly is last observed in San Francisco either this year, or in 1943
Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. opens a small bar/restaurant across from his parents' grocery store at San Pablo Avenue and 65th Street in
Oakland, calling it "Hinky Dink's"(Trader Vic's menu pictured, left)
680 acres of land in
Oakland are purchased to create an airport runway, which, when finished in time for the
Dole Air Race, at 7,020 feet, becomes the longest in the world. Later in the year the airport is dedicated by
Charles Lindbergh
George Whitney becomes general manager of a variously named complex of seaside attractions next to
Ocean Beach in San Francisco, and christens it "Playland-at-the-Beach"(Big Dipper pictured)
Lawndale is incorporated in
San Mateo County, at the behest of the cemetery owners in the area, which had been established after San Francisco banned all cemeteries in 1900, and removed most existing ones from the city
During World War I, a major explosion of barges loaded with munitions at Mare Island Naval Shipyard killes 6 people, wounds another 31, and destroys some port facilities.
Chauncey Thomas opens The Tile Shop on San Pablo Avenue in
Berkeley to make and sell
faience tiles (
Hearst Castle tower, decorated with tiles from California Faience, pictured)
Dewing Park in
Contra Costa County is renamed Saranap after the local inter-urban commuter rail system developer's mother, Sara Napthaly
John Swett, former Superintendent of the San Francisco Public Schools, and "Father of the California public school", dies
• On April 17, Daniel Burnham delivers plans (pictured, left) for the redesign of San Francisco
• The next day, a massive earthquake hits San Francisco, starting fires which burn much of the city to the ground. 3,000 people die during the disaster.
George A. Wyman becomes the first person to ride a motorcycle (and the first using any motor vehicle) across the US, from San Francisco to New York City
• United States v. Wong Kim Ark is decided in favor of Wong Kim Ark (pictured, left), who is thus considered a U.S. citizen
• The San Francisco Ferry Building(pictured, right), designed by
A. Page Brown, opens
• A columbarium(pictured, right) is built at Odd Fellows Cemetery in San Francisco by
Bernard J. S. Cahill, to complement an earlier columbarium built by him
• The Baldwin Hotel(pictured, right) in San Francisco, built in 1876, burns down
• Francis K. Shattuck dies after being knocked down by a man exiting from a train that Shattuck was attempting to board on the eponymous
Shattuck Avenue
Le Petit Trianon(pictured) near
Santa Clara Valley is built for Charles A. Baldwin and his wife Ellen Hobart Baldwin, as the center of their wine-producing estate
The Pacific-Union Club in San Francisco (pictured) is founded as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club (founded 1854)
A two day pogrom waged against
Chinese immigrants in San Francisco by the city's majority
white population, resulting in four deaths and the destruction of more than $100,000 worth of property belonging to the city's Chinese immigrant population.
Frederick Marriott's unmanned,
lighter-than-air craft the Hermes Avitor Jr.(replica pictured) takes to the air at the Shellmound Park racetrack in
Emeryville, flying at about 5 miles per hour
The
Sisters of Mercy open St. Mary's Hospital on
Stockton Street in San Francisco, the first Catholic hospital west of the Rocky Mountains (hospital ruins in 1906 pictured)
• A small coffee stand(1983 menu pictured, left) opens on Clay Street in San Francisco
• Boudin Bakery is established in San Francisco, producing
San Francisco sourdough(loaves pictured, right)
• The Alta California begins publishing in San Francisco
• Bayard Taylor visits San Francisco and the Gold Country, writing about the Gold Rush
• The Niantic whaling ship is stranded by its crew on the shore of San Francisco, who desert it to join the Gold Rush
• Irish immigrants
Peter and James Donahue found Union Iron Works(pictured) in
South of Market, San Francisco
• San Francisco's population is 25,000, an increase by 2,400% from 1848's 1,000
During the
Quaternary glaciation beginning 2.58 million years ago, the basin now filled by the bay is a large linear valley with small hills, similar to most of the valleys of the
Coast Ranges. The rivers of the Central Valley run out to sea through a canyon that is now the Golden Gate. As the ice sheets melt, sea levels rise 300 feet (91 m) over the next 4,000 years, and the valley fills with water from the Pacific.
The Ohlone people(pictured) inhabit the Bay Area region as early as 6,000 year ago, with a 1770 estimated population of 10,000–20,000
The Coast Miwok inhabit the
Sonoma region as early as 4,000 years ago, with a 1770 estimated population of 2,000
The Patwin people inhabit the northern Bay region as early as early as 1,500 years ago, with a 1770 estimated population of 12,000
The Bay Miwok inhabit the region that is now
Contra Costa County, with a 1770 estimated population of approximately 1,700
In 1539,
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo lands on islands off the coast of California, and names them Farallones, Spanish for cliffs or small pointed islets
On 13 November 1542,
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sights a peninsula from his ship and names it "
Cabo de Pinos", while missing the entrance to San Francisco Bay
During the 17th century, despite numerous sailing vessels traveling along the coast, no ships discover the
Golden Gate and the San Francisco Bay, due to factors such as fog and ships avoiding sailing close to shore
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