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…
Comments closedThe first gurdwara serving the Sikh community in the United States and Canada is founded in 1912 on South Grand Street in Stockton. For 55…
Comments closedThree 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.…
Comments closedPhyllis 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…
Comments closedCatherine Hittell is passionate about wildlife preservation. Saving the meadowlark from extinction, in particular. During the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century,…
Comments closedYosemite Valley’s majestic 8,839 foot Half Dome is “probably the only one of all the prominent points of Yosemite which has never been — and…
Comments closedBummer and Lazarus are the most famous dogs in San Francisco’s history. Maybe even in California’s history. Between 1861 and 1865, the two mongrels are…
Comments closedAssembly member Blanca Rubio agrees to meet me at Chicory, a coffee shop in Sacramento frequented by members of the Legislature. We’ve never met. I’m…
Comments closedJoltin’ 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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