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Kamala Devi Harris was born in Oakland, California, 1964 to biologist Shyamala Gopalan and economist Donald J. Harris. The Harris family moved to various locations in the Midwestern United States from 1966 to 1970, when she moved back to California. At the age of twelve, she moved to Montreal, Quebec, where she attended school through her first ...
San Francisco was the county seat of San Francisco County, one of state's 18 original counties since California's statehood in 1850. Until 1856, the city limits extended west to Divisadero Street and Castro Street, and south to 20th Street. In response to the lawlessness and vigilantism that escalated rapidly between 1855 and 1856, the ...
San Francisco National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery, located in the Presidio of San Francisco, California. Because of the name and location, it is frequently confused with Golden Gate National Cemetery, a few miles south of the city. About 1937, San Francisco residents voted to no longer build cemeteries within the city proper ...
2012 Ingleside, San Francisco homicide: San Francisco: 2012-03-23: 5: Murder of family of Chinese immigrants, sometimes called the "Lei family quintuple slayings" [44] [45] 34: Murder of Ming Qu and Ying Wu: Los Angeles: 2012-04-11: 2: Chinese graduate students at USC shot to death while sitting in their BMW near campus [46] 35: Murders of ...
The San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 was an epidemic of bubonic plague centered on San Francisco 's Chinatown. It was the first plague epidemic in the continental United States. [1] The epidemic was recognized by medical authorities in March 1900, but its existence was denied for more than two years by California's Governor Henry Gage.
San Quentin State Prison: SQ Marin: 1852 Yes Not formally designated, but has substantial reentry programming 3,082 3,776 122.5% California's only death row for men is at San Quentin. The prison was constructed by incarcerated men on the Waban, a ship anchored in San Francisco Bay and California's first prison. Sierra Conservation Center: SCC ...
Jerry Garcia. Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) [1][2][3][4] was an American musician who was the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 1960s. [5][6] Although he disavowed the role, Garcia was ...
Until 1906, the school faculty had provided care at the City-County Hospital (now the San Francisco General Hospital), but did not have a hospital of its own. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, more than 40,000 people were relocated to a makeshift tent city in Golden Gate Park and were treated by the faculty of the Affiliated Colleges.