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Gómez-Quiñones, Juan. "Plan de San Diego Reviewed," Aztlan, (1970) 1#1 pp 124–132. Hager, William M. "The plan of San Diego unrest on the Texas border in 1915." Arizona and the West 5.4 (1963): 327-336. online; Harris III, Charles H., and Louis R. Sadler. "The Plan of San Diego and the Mexican–United States War Crisis of 1916: A ...
States with areas largely affected by the Southwest Blackout of 2011. The 2011 Southwest blackout, also known as the Great Blackout of 2011, [1] [2] was a widespread power outage that affected the San Diego–Tijuana area, southern Orange County, Imperial Valley, Mexicali Valley, Coachella Valley, and parts of Arizona. [3]
San Diego State University (SDSU) is the largest and oldest higher education facility in San Diego County. It was founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, a state school for the preparation of teachers, located on Park Avenue in University Heights. In 1931 it moved to a larger location on Aztec Mesa, overlooking Mission Valley, at what was ...
The beaches are listed in order from north to south, and they are grouped (where applicable) by the community in which the beach is situated. Some beaches in the San Diego area are long continuous stretches of sandy coastline, others, like many of the beaches in the Village of La Jolla (which was built on a large rocky promontory), are small ...
1853 – San Bernardino County breaks off from San Diego County. [11] 1855 – Point Loma Lighthouse built. [5] 1858 – October: Hurricane. 1859 – San Diego County votes to secede from California to form the Territory of Colorado, voting 207–24 in favor of secession [8] 1862 – 6.0 magnitude Earthquake
A site was chosen in 1851 near the summit of Point Loma. The contract was given to the Washington, D.C. company Gibbon and Kelley. The local supervisor was William J. Timanus. Construction was begun in April 1854, when a shipment of materials arrived from San Francisco. The lantern and lens had to be ordered from Paris and arrived in August 1855.
The camp was established by the Army in 1917 on 12,721 acres (51.48 km 2) of land on a mesa north of San Diego. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The area included the 2,130-acre (8.6 km 2 ) Miramar Ranch, which had originally been established by newspaperman E. W. Scripps and later sold to the Jessop family. [ 3 ]
Then-state senator Ed Fletcher managed to obtain the statue in 1940 over the objections of Bay Area officials and shipped it to San Diego. It was stored for several years on the grounds of Naval Training Center San Diego, out of public view, and was finally installed at Cabrillo Monument in 1949. The sandstone statue suffered severe weathering ...