On January 21, 1867, San Francisco Police Officer Armand Barbier rashly arrests Joshua Norton, self-proclaimed “Emperor of these United States” and “Protector of Mexico,” on charges…
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The three-person federal Public Land Commission is charged with determining the validity of Spanish and Mexican land grants in California. The 1851 legislation creating the…
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Chowchilla becomes a city on February 7, 1923. Fifteen miles northwest of Madera in the Central Valley, Chowchilla embraces city hood almost 11 years after Pennsylvania-born…
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Dr. Norman E. Shumway performs the first heart transplant on an adult patient in the United States at Stanford University Hospital on January 6, 1968.…
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In part to silence potential criticism by U.S. senators over his use of government funds, Howard Hughes flies his gigantic H-4 Hercules cargo plane off…
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