On Christmas Day 1934, the venerable Art Deco track in present day Arcadia first presents horse racing. Santa Anita is arguably the oldest horseracing track…
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During a December 3, 1965 concert, a stunned audience at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium hears a loud pop and sees an eruption of blue sparks as…
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San Francisco Call, 29 December 1901, pg. 4 California Digital Newspaper Collection, Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside, http://cdnc.ucr.edu. Much of…
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Dorothea Nutzhorn is born on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey to Heinrich Nutzhorn, a lawyer, and Johanna Lange Nutzhorn. At age seven, Dorothea…
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On January 1, 1909, the “seat of government of the State of California shall be changed from the city of Sacramento to the town of…
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On January 21, 1913, the Oakland YWCA announces that the city’s own Julia Morgan — the most accomplished woman architect in the country — is…
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Three fishermen from Lone Pine become the first recorded to reach the 14,505 summit of Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the continental United States.…
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Phyllis Diller, 37, mother of five, former San Leandro News-Observer shopping columnist, gets her first stand-up comedy gig at San Francisco’s Purple Onion on March…
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Catherine Hittell is passionate about wildlife preservation. Saving the meadowlark from extinction, in particular. During the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century,…
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On her 100th birthday in 1962, Lydia Flood Jackson is honored by the City of Oakland as their oldest living native and the daughter of…
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