So says Universalist and Unitarian minister Thomas Starr King on his San Francisco deathbed, March 4, 1864. According to Charles Wendte’s 1921 biography of Starr…
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In what they themselves describe as a “dingy room at 417 Clay Street,” two teenagers – Charles de Young, 19, and his 17-year-old brother Michael…
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On December 16, 1896, Griffith J. Griffith and his wife Christina give Los Angeles 3,015 acres to use as a public park. Since then, another…
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On December 13, 1900, the Automobile Club of Southern California is founded in Los Angeles. It’s one of the country’s first motor clubs. although the…
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Built to resemble a mission, the first – and only — Milestone Mo-tel in San Luis Obispo is a new kind of lodging designed for California’s…
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On November 27, 1978, angered that he wasn’t to be reappointed to the Board of Supervisors slot he resigned from on November 10, Dan White…
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In November 1903, Gov. George Pardee and his family move into the Governor’s Mansion at 16th and H Streets in Sacramento. Pardee, his wife Helen and their four…
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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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John Steinbeck’s “realistic and imaginative writing, combining as it does sympathetic humor and keen social perception” earns the Salinas native the 1962 Nobel Prize for…
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One the ugliest and most violent attacks on any group of people in California takes place on October 24, 1871. The “Los Angeles Massacre” or…
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