After California’s male voters decisively defeat a women’s voting rights ballot measure in 1896, suffragists display plenty of public bravado. But it’s all for show. …
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Erstwhile school teacher Rebecca Merritt Austin and husband James move to Plumas County from Kansas in 1865, setting up their household in the Black Hawk…
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Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio is born in Martinez, California on November 25, 1914 to a fisherman father who sails the family cross the bay when Joe…
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California writers have created a rich tradition of social protest novels, beginning with John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Muiretta: The Celebrated…
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In the view of many sportswriters and historians of the game, the University of San Francisco’s 1951 team is the greatest college football team ever. …
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Lt. Gov. Goodwin Jesse Knight, a genial, moderate Republican, is sworn in on October 5, 1953, as California’s 31st governor after the resignation of Earl…
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