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George Richard Moscone was born in the Italian-American enclave of San Francisco's Marina District. [2] The Moscone family comes from Piedmont and Liguria. [3] His father was George Joseph Moscone, a corrections officer at nearby San Quentin, and his mother, Lena, was a homemaker who later went to work to support herself and her son after she separated from her husband.
Moscone South is located to the south of Howard Street. It is three stories tall. It opened in 2017, replacing the original Moscone Center building that opened in 1981. [4] A Keith Haring sculpture stands outside the hall at the corner of 3rd and Howard streets. [10] Moscone North is located to the north of Howard Street.
Moscone may refer to: George Moscone (1929–1978), 37th Mayor of San Francisco, California, 1976–1978 Moscone–Milk assassinations , the murders that killed the Mayor and City Supervisor Harvey Milk
Moscone refused, and their conversation turned into a heated argument over Horanzy's pending appointment. [24] Wishing to avoid a public scene, Moscone suggested they retreat to a private lounge adjacent to his office. Witnesses later reported that they heard Moscone and White arguing, later followed by the gunshots that sounded like a car ...
In 1924, at the age of 11, Mosconi was the juvenile straight pool champion and was regularly holding trick shot exhibitions. [5] By the early 1930s, Mosconi had taken a brief hiatus from the game, but returned a few years later in the hopes of earning some money.
Dan White was born in Long Beach, California, on September 2, 1946, [1] the second of nine children in a working-class Irish-American family. He grew up in the Visitacion Valley neighborhood of San Francisco and attended Archbishop Riordan High School, until he was expelled for violence in his junior year. [2]
With Moscone in office there was a move to redefine how the city's governing Board of Supervisors should be selected as well as paid. [3] Neighborhood activists at that time sought to reduce the influence of downtown businesses and thus the method for selecting supervisors. Their aim was to create a new system of neighborhood-based supervisors.
The White Night riots were a series of violent events sparked by an announcement of a lenient sentencing of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco, and of Harvey Milk, a member of the city's Board of Supervisors who was one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States.