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1579: Sir Francis
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1603: Sebastian
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1879: Henry George publishes Progress and
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1895: Fremont Older |
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Legislature passes Red Light Abatement Act; Barbaby Coast brothels close |
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Preparedness Day Bombing. After a bitter waterfront strike, a bomb explodes
during a great parade, killing 10 people and wounding 40; Labor figures Tom
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Caruso sings role of Don |
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education and rat extermina- |
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Rush changes California |
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start Chronicle |
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School begins |
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Jose in Carmen |
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bubonic plague in city. |
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1849: Thousands of |
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1856: Morning Call |
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Transconti-nental railroad connects San Francisco to U.S. |
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projects the |
1895: James D. Phelan |
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publishes McTeague |
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1918:
Fremont Older leaves Bulletin, becomes editor of Hearst's Call; exposes District Attorney Fickert in Mooney case. |
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lores founded |
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Fifth Street opens |
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first moving pictures |
elected mayor. |
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elected Mayor |
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strikes at 5:12 a.m. City Hall and other |
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to print word "jazz." |
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buildings destroyed. Fires burn almost |
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1875: Palace Hotel |
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1882: Oscar Wilde visits and lectures in San Francisco. |
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1895: Arnold Genthe |
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bubonic plague |
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all of commercial and much of residential |
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opens |
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begins photographing |
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areas. Over 3,000 dead, 200,000 homeless. |
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pervisor Casey. 2nd |
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The
Graft Prosecution: L-R Francis Heney, William Burns, Fremont Older, Rudolph
Spreckels |
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body found two weeks later. |
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cept Mission Dolores & Presi- |
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house in town |
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cal performance |
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1877: Anti-Chinese |
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1882: U.S. Congress passes Chinese Exclusion Act |
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dio. Thousands of remains go |
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1919:
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