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Milk won the election and became San Francisco's first openly gay elected official. On November 27, 1978 Dan White, a former member of the Board of Supervisors and former police officer, assassinated the city's mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Milk. The murders and the subsequent trial were marked both by candlelight vigils and homosexual riots.
1935 – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opens as San Francisco Museum of Art in Veterans Memorial Building. 1936 – Bay Bridge opens. [55] 1937 – May 27: Golden Gate Bridge opens. [9] 1940 – Holly Courts housing project built. [9] 1944 – Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples established. [56] 1945 Tonga Room in business.
The San Francisco Historical Society was founded in 1988 by historian Charles A. Fracchia. [1]In February 2002, the San Francisco Historical Society merged with the Museum of the City of San Francisco to create the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, [2] which the San Francisco municipal government recognized as the official historical museum of San Francisco. [3]
San Francisco municipal government recognized the newly merged organization as the official historical museum of San Francisco, since it was the successor to the Museum of the City of San Francisco. [3] One of the purposes of the merger of the two organizations was to put together a single proposal to renovate and operate the Old San Francisco ...
• The San Francisco Museum of Art opens at the War Memorial Veterans Building on Van Ness Avenue in the Civic Center (Woman with a Hat by Matisse, from the museum collection, pictured, left) • Benjamin Franklin Davis, grandson of the man who helped develop Levi's jeans, opens his eponymous clothing store in San Francisco
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October 10, 1975 (Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, 2905 Hyde Street: Fisherman's Wharf: Flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 to haul goods on and around San Francisco Bay and river delta areas.