At 10:45 a.m., January 28, 1969, 5.8 miles off the coast of Summerland in Santa Barbara County, workers on Union Oil’s drilling Platform A create California’s…
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Stories about plants, animals, and geology of California
While making his morning inspection of the sawmill he is building with John Sutter near the Maidu Indian village of Cullumah — now Coloma —…
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On November 5, 1913, an estimated 30,000 Angelinos watch water from the Owens Valley cascade into the San Fernando Valley through the Los Angeles Aqueduct.…
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San Francisco’s “Great Quake” – at least until the 7.8 magnitude quake of April 18,1906 — strikes at 7:53 a.m. on October 21, 1868. The…
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