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State flag of California Location of California on the U.S. map This is a list of notable people from the U.S. state of California . It includes people who were born/raised in, lived in, or spent portions of their lives in California, or for whom California is a significant part of their identity.
The 2011–2017 California drought persisted from December 2011 to March 2017 [109] and consisted of the driest period in California's recorded history, late 2011 through 2014. [110] The drought wiped out 102 million trees from 2011 to 2016, 62 million of those during 2016 alone. [ 111 ]
May 14 – John S. Barbour, Jr., U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1889 to 1892 (born 1820) June 8 – Robert Ford, outlaw, killer of Jesse James (born 1862) July 14 – Newton Booth, U.S. Senator from California from 1875 to 1881 (born 1825) August 16 – Thomas H. Watts, 18th Governor of Alabama, 3rd Confederate States Attorney General (born 1819)
Events in California by city (17 C) F. History of Fremont, California (2 P) ... History of Nevada City, California (10 P) O. History of Oakland, California (11 C, 78 P)
Born Person description occupation position held country of citizenship given name 2008-02-28 Maximo Carrizo: American soccer player association football player: United States: Máximo Augusto: 2007-02-28 Fin Cartwright: English footballer association football player: 2007-02-28 Toa Sasaki: Japanese skateboarder (born 2007) 2007-02-28 Momchil ...
1800 – Millard Fillmore (pictured), 13th President of the United States and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office, is born. 1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London. 1952 – President Harry Truman announces that the United States has successfully detonated its first ...
The following is a list of notable people who were either born in, lived in, are current residents of, or are otherwise closely associated with the city or county of Los Angeles, California. Those not born in Los Angeles have their places of birth listed instead. Los Angeles natives are also referred to as Angelenos / æ n dʒ ɪ ˈ l iː n oʊ ...
Leonard L. Alvarado - Medal of Honor recipient, Specialist 4th Class, United States Army - Republic of Vietnam 1969 [55] [56] General Edward Fitzgerald Beale - Superintendent of Indian Affairs for California and Nevada (1850s), Surveyor General of California and Nevada (1860s), U.S. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary (1870s), founder of Tejon Ranch