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The final death toll was 39, with some 150 injuries. [2] The pier was the second pier at that location. (The first Long Beach Municipal Pier was built in 1894.) The recreation wharf had been opened to the public in 1904. [3]
The family of Zerby filed a lawsuit against the city of Long Beach and was awarded $6.5 million after a jury found the Long Beach Police Department to be responsible for Zerby's death, acting with malice and recklessness, and violating Zerby's Fourth Amendment rights. The officers also had to pay $5,000 each to Zerby's family.
The strangled body of a young woman was found on May 28, 1974, on the jetty of Alamitos Beach in Long Beach, California. [3] She was estimated to be between 18 and 28 years old and had been raped. [4] Basic physical examination showed she was about 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed about 118 pounds.
Deaths Description Sources 1: Lexington murders: Lexington: 1883-03-11: 2: Double murder, two of the perpetrators were hanged [1] [2] [3] 2: Los Angeles Times bombing: Los Angeles: 1910-10-1: 21: Union member bombed the Los Angeles Times building [4] 3: Adele Ritchie: Laguna Beach: 1930-04-24: 2: Prima donna of comic opera who shot and killed a ...
The 1933 Long Beach earthquake took place on March 10 at 5:54 P.M. PST south of downtown Los Angeles. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach, California, on the Newport–Inglewood Fault. [10] The earthquake had a magnitude estimated at 6.4 M w, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).
Randy Kraft was born in Long Beach, California, on March 19, 1945, the fourth child and only son of Opal Lee (née Beal) and Harold Herbert Kraft. [9] Kraft's father had moved to California from Wyoming weeks after the United States' entry into World War II. [10]
The Field Act was put into effect just one month following the destructive March 1933 Long Beach earthquake that damaged many public school buildings in Long Beach, Compton, and Whittier. The Los Angeles Unified School District had 660 schools consisting of 9,200 buildings at the time of the earthquake, with 110 masonry buildings that had not ...
The 1939 California tropical storm, also known as the 1939 Long Beach tropical storm, and El Cordonazo (referring to the Cordonazo winds or the "Lash of St. Francis" (Spanish: el cordonazo de San Francisco)), was a tropical cyclone that affected Southern California in September 1939.