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Port of Los Angeles [17] and City Club of Los Angeles [32] established. Silver Lake Reservoir built. [14] Los Angeles Ostrich Farm [14] and Los Angeles Alligator Farm open. 1908 Mount Wilson Observatory begins operating in Los Angeles County. October 1: Construction begins on Owens River Aqueduct. [1] 1909 Selig Polyscope Company relocates to ...
Billy G. Mills (born 1929), Los Angeles City Councilman, 1963–74, investigated the Watts riots; Charles A. Ott Jr. (1920–2006), United States Army and California Army National Guard Major General who commanded National Guard soldiers in Los Angeles during the event; Urban decay; Urban riots; Watts Prophets; Wattstax; Zoot Suit Riots
Baldwin Hills Reservoir after 1963 failure, view south. The gash through the dam corresponds to the alignment of a fault. The Baldwin Hills Dam disaster occurred on December 14, 1963 (61 years ago) () in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of South Los Angeles, when the dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir suffered a catastrophic failure and flooded the residential neighborhoods surrounding it.
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The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. The first walkout occurred on March 5, 1968. The students who organized and carried out the protests were primarily concerned with the quality of their education.
At the same time as these events, the movement against the Vietnam War began to increase in size; in Los Angeles by 1966, at least one protest had been held by draftees against the war outside military recruitment offices. [5] President Lyndon B. Johnson, at the same time, had begun escalation of the war, and was set to work on reelection. [6]
Built in the early 1960s, the now-decrepit Men's Central Jail has been a vexing issue for the county. ... (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) In the summer of 2019, justice reformers celebrated ...
11 August 1965, Los Angeles, California, US, The McCone Commission investigated the riots finding that causes included poverty, inequality, racial discrimination and the passage, in November 1964, of Proposition 14 on the California ballot overturning the Rumford Fair Housing Act, which established equality of opportunity for black home buyers.