California History Timeline (Part 3)

Events 201 - 300 of 438

• 1965-05-03 Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (Los Angeles California)
• 1966-04-30 Anton LaVey founds the Church of Satan in San Francisco, California
• 1966-10-02 Australian Robert 'Nat' Young puts on a dominating performance to win the World Surfing Championship at Ocean Beach, San Diego; Joyce Hoffman of Capistrano Beach, California takes women's title

• 1966-10-06 LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California, other states follow

• 1967-06-10 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California
• 1967-06-14 California Governor Ronald Reagan signs the Therapeutic Abortion Act, legalizing abortions in the state under certain circumstances, the second state after Colorado to do so
• 1967-06-15 Governor Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill

• 1967-10-16 Joean Baez and 123 other anti-draft protesters are arrested in Oakland, California
• 1968-01-02 KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, California (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1968-04-01 KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast
• 1968-05-15 1st AL game played in Milwaukee, is a 4-2 California win against Chicago

• 1968-06-17 KQEC TV channel 32 in San Francisco, California (PBS) begins broadcasting

• 1968-12-20 The Zodiac Killer murders teenagers Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday while on their first date together in Vallejo, California [1]
• 1968-12-21 David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills & Nash) premiere together in California
• 1968-12-28 KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast
• 1969-06-20 200,000 attend Newport '69, then largest-ever pop concert in Northridge, California. Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear
• 1969-10-15 Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated

• 1970-01-23 Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California)
• 1970-07-06 California passes the first no-fault divorce law in the United States
• 1970-08-07 Shootout at Marin Courthouse in San Rafael, California, kills 4, including the presiding judge
• 1970-09-12 US LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail
• 1970-09-26 The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
• 1970-10-19 Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale, California
• 1970-11-04 Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California, having been locked in her bedroom by her father for most of her life
• 1970-11-19 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Californian state historical landmark
• 1971-01-08 29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at San Clemente Island, California
• 1972-02-18 California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty

• 1973-01-14 Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drug possession charges at his Marin County, California home
• 1973-04-28 Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate over 18 hrs in a railyard in northern California. 5500 structures damaged, town of Antelope destroyed, with every building reduced to foundations. Leads to Transportation Safety Act (1974)

• 1973-05-29 Thomas Bradley elected 1st African American mayor of Los Angeles, California
• 1973-07-15 California Angel Nolan Ryan's 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0

• 1974-04-06 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam" at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California; line-up includes Earth, Wind & Fire; Black Sabbath; Deep Purple; and Emerson, Lake & Palmer
• 1974-09-28 California Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0
• 1974-10-30 California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH)
• 1974-11-23 Alexis Argüello of Nicaragua knocks out Mexican defending champion Rubén Olivares in the 13th round at the Forum in Inglewood, California, to claim the WBA world featherweight boxing title
• 1974-12-01 American Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon 2:43:54.5 in Culver City, California
• 1975-01-28 1975 NFL Draft: Steve Bartkowski from University of California first pick by Atlanta Falcons
• 1975-06-01 California Angels pitcher Nolan Ryan records his record equalling 4th MLB career no-hitter in beating the Baltimore Orioles, 1-0
• 1975-06-05 The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (CALRA), which establishes collective bargaining for farmworkers, becomes law
• 1975-06-30 University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance

• 1976-05-24 In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines
• 1976-07-15 36-hr kidnap of 26 school children and their bus driver in California
• 1976-08-07 Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
• 1976-09-17 NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, California, named after Star Trek Enterprise with cast attending
• 1977-02-28 1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles California)

• 1977-10-12 US Supreme Court heard arguments in "reverse discrimination" case of Allan Bakke, white student denied admission to University of California Med School

• 1978-03-05 Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California
• 1978-03-18 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario, California

• 1978-06-06 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%

• 1979-09-18 Steven Lachs, appointed as California's first openly gay judge
• 1979-11-14 California's Don Baylor, wins AL MVP
• 1979-12-03 45th Heisman Trophy Award: Charles White, Southern California (RB)
• 1980-05-08 1st non-stop trans-North American balloon flight departs Fort Baker, California. Maxie Anderson and son Kristian pilot the Kitty Hawk for five days.

• 1980-07-30 American swimmers Mary T Meagher (2.06.37) and Craig Beardsley (1.58.21) both set 200m butterfly world records at the US National Swimming Championships at Irvine, California
• 1981-01-23 1st Richard Nixon museum opens in San Clemente California
• 1981-06-18 The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California
• 1981-07-01 Laurel Canyon California murders (4 die, 1 wounded)
• 1981-10-15 Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads what is thought to be the first audience wave in Oakland, California.
• 1982-02-19 Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853
• 1982-05-07 Californian federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing Oakland Raiders move to Los Angeles Coliseum
• 1982-12-02 American track and field record holder Steve Scott sets record for fastest round of golf played on a regulation course; posts a 95, completing 18 holes in 29:33.05s at Miller Golf Club in Anaheim, California; he used only two clubs, and ran between holes
• 1983-01-26 Dutch British infrared satellite IRAS launched from California
• 1983-05-02 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga, California
• 1983-07-30 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, California
• 1983-09-04 Californian skier Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed record; 119.36 mph
• 1983-11-06 Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, California
• 1983-12-16 Riverside, California judge denies cerebral palsy victim Elizabeth Bouviato request to starve herself to death in a county hospital

• 1984-01-19 California Supreme Court rejects the request of quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia's to starve herself to death in a public hospital
• 1984-03-22 Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
• 1984-07-18 21 people are killed and 19 are injured in a massacre in a McDonalds restaurant in San Ysidro, California; it ends with the shooting of its perpetrator, James Oliver Huberty
• 1984-08-09 Daley Thompson of Great Britain scores 8,797 points to win the Olympic decathlon in Los Angeles; later recognised as a world record
• 1984-09-30 California Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0
• 1984-10-20 The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California.
• 1985-08-31 Night Stalker suspect that terrorized California captured in East Los Angeles
• 1985-09-08 7 die in a car & train crash in San Jose, California
• 1985-11-06 Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California
• 1985-12-11 Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb

• 1986-05-12 Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat, California

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Birthdays 201 - 300 of 2,935

• 1910-07-11 Irene Hervey, American actress (Aunt Meg-Honey West), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
• 1910-07-28 Bill Goodwin, American television announcer (Jolson Story, Burns & Allen), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1958)
• 1910-09-27 Eve March, American actress (Curse of the Cat People), born in Fresno, California (d. 1974)
• 1910-10-04 Frankie Crosetti, American baseball shortstop and 3rd base coach (record 17 World Series titles as player and coach; NY Yankees), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2002)
• 1911-01-27 Benay Venuta [Benvenuta Rose Crooke], American actress, singer and dancer (Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1995)
• 1911-04-12 Darrell A. Amyx, American classical archaeologist (Greek Ceramics), born in Exeter, California (d. 1997)
• 1911-06-13 Luis Alvarez, American physicist (subatomic particles, Nobel 1968), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1988)
• 1911-09-06 Harry Danning, American baseball player, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2004)
• 1911-10-27 Leif Erickson, American actor (Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront), born in Alameda, California (d. 1986)
• 1911-11-02 Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, born in National City, California (d. 1995)
• 1911-12-14 Spike Jones [Lindley Armstrong Jones], American bandleader (Der Fueher's Face, Cocktails For Two), born in Long Beach, California (d. 1965)
• 1911-12-30 Jeanette Nolan, American actress (Richard Boone Show, Virginian), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
• 1912-04-11 John Larkin, American actor (Saints & Sinners, The Satan Bug, 12 O'Clock High), born in Oakland, California (d. 1965)
• 1912-05-11 Doodles Weaver [Winstead Sheffield Weaver], American comedian (Spike Jones & City Slickers, The Zodiac Killer), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1983)
• 1912-05-29 Iris Adrian, American actress (Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1994)
• 1912-06-12 Russell "Lucky" Hayden [Pate Lucid], American actor (Judge Roy Bean, Three Men from Texas), born in Chico, California (d. 1981)
• 1912-07-01 David Brower, American environmentalist and president (Sierra Club), born in Berkeley, California (d. 2000)
• 1912-08-15 Julia Child, American chef, author and television personality (The French Chef), born in Pasadena, California (d. 2004)
• 1912-09-05 Frank Thomas, American animator, born in Fresno, California (d. 2004)

• 1912-09-06 Vince DiMaggio, American baseball center fielder (MLB All Star 1943-44; Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Martinez, California (d. 1986)
• 1912-10-31 Ollie Johnston, American animator and the last living member of Disney's Nine Old Men, born in Palo Alto, California (d. 2008)
• 1912-12-01 Cookie Lavagetto, American baseball third baseman (MLB All Star 1938-41; Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers) and manager (Washington Senators 1957-61), born in Oakland, California (d. 1990)
• 1912-12-15 Ray Eames, American designer and filmmaker, born in Sacramento, California (d. 1988)

• 1913-01-15 Lloyd Bridges, American actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane!), born in San Leandro, California (d. 1998)
• 1913-05-22 Carlyle Blackwell Jr, American actor (The Pilgrim Lady, The Triumph of the Rat), born in Los Angeles County, California (d. 1974)
• 1913-06-10 John Edmunds, American composer, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1986)
• 1913-07-12 Willis Lamb, American physicist (Nobel 1955), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2008)
• 1913-08-21 Cornelius Johnson, American high jumper (Olympic gold 1936), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1946)
• 1913-08-24 Dorothy Comingore [Linda Winters], American actress (Citizen Kane), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1971)

• 1913-10-29 (Israël) "Eddie" Constantine, American-French singer and actor (Alphaville; License to Kill; Lucky Jo, It Lives Again), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1993)
• 1913-12-25 Tony Martin [Alvin Morris], American singer ("It's a Blue World; "To Each His Own"), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2012)
• 1914-02-13 George Kleinsinger, American composer (Tubby the Tuba), born in San Bernardino, California (d. 1982)
• 1914-02-17 Wayne Morris, American actor and decorated WWII pilot (Paths of Glory, The Bushwackers), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1959)
• 1914-03-19 Fred Clark, American actor (Burns & Allen, Auntie Mame, Hazard), born in Lincoln, California (d. 1968)
• 1914-04-12 Armen Alchian, American economist and professor (University of California), born in Fresno, California (d. 2013)
• 1914-06-19 Alan Cranston, American politician (Sen-D-CA, 1969-1993), born in Palo Alto, California (d. 2000)

• 1914-09-26 Jack LaLanne, American fitness and nutritional expert, born in San Francisco, California (d. 2011)
• 1914-10-02 Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist and Thelemite occultist, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1952)

• 1914-11-29 Edith Tilton Penrose, American-born British economist (The Theory of the Growth of the Firm), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1996)
• 1914-12-30 (Catherine) Jo Van Fleet, American Tony and Academy Award-winning actress (The Trip To Bountiful; East of Eden; Cool Hand Luke), born in Oakland, California (d. 1996) [some sources give birth as 12/29/15]
• 1915-01-06 Don Edwards, American politician and civil rights champion (Rep-D-CA, 1963-94), born in San Jose, California (d. 2015)
• 1915-01-12 Paul Jarrico, American writer, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1997)
• 1915-01-14 Mark Goodson, American radio and TV game show producer, with Bill Todman ("I've Got A Secret"; "The Price Is Right"; "Password"), born in Sacramento, California (d. 1992)
• 1915-02-23 Jon Hall, American actor (Ramar of the Jungle), born in Fresno, California (d. 1979)
• 1915-05-01 Archie Williams, American athlete (Olympic gold 400m 1936), born in Oakland, California (d. 1993)
• 1915-06-13 Don Budge, American tennis player (6 Grand Slam singles titles, Grand Slam 1938), born in Oakland, California (d. 2000)
• 1915-06-25 Peter Lind Hayes, American comedian and singer (Peter Lind Hayes Show), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1998)
• 1915-07-01 Jean Stafford, American writer (Pulitzer Prize 1970-The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford), born in Covina, California (d. 1979)
• 1915-09-08 Frank Cady, American actor (The Beverly Hillbillies; Petticoat Junction; Green Acres - all as "Sam Drucker"), born in Susanville, California (d. 2012)
• 1915-10-18 Victor Sen Yung [Cheung Young], American actor (Across the Pacific, Charlie Chan in Honolulu), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1980)
• 1915-12-07 Leigh Brackett, American sci-fi author (Ginger Star), Los Angeles, California (d. 1978)
• 1915-12-13 Ross MacDonald [Kenneth Millar], American-Canadian detective novelist (Goodbye Look), born in Los Gatos, California (d. 1983)
• 1915-12-22 Barbara Billingsley, American actress (Leave it to Beaver), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2010)
• 1916-01-24 Walter Haas Jr., American businessman and sports team owner (Levi Strauss & Co, Oakland A's), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1995)
• 1916-02-12 Joseph L Alioto, American politician (Mayor-San Francisco), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1998)
• 1916-02-13 James Griffith, American actor (Sheriff of Cochise), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1993)
• 1916-04-03 Herb Caen, American columnist (SF Chronicle), born in Sacramento, California (d. 1997)

• 1916-04-30 Robert Shaw, American chorale conductor (Robert Shaw Chorale), born in Red Bluff, California (d. 1999)

• 1916-07-01 Bob Prince, American sportscaster (Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1985)
• 1916-07-11 Howard Brubeck, American composer (Dialogues for Jazz Combo and Orchestra), born in Concord, California (d. 1993)
• 1916-08-19 Marie Wilson, American actress (The Story of Mankind, My Friend Irma), born in Anaheim, California (d. 1972)
• 1916-08-28 Jack [Holbrook] Vance, American sci-fi author (2 Hugo, Dirdir, Pnume), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2013)
• 1916-10-10 Benson Fong, American character actor (Charlie Chan films; Purple Heart; Flower Drum Song), and restaurateur, born in Sacramento, California (d. 1987)
• 1916-11-29 Frances "Fran" Ryan, American actress (Stripes, The Long Riders), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2000)

• 1917-01-29 John Raitt, American stage and screen singer and actor (Carousel; The Pajama Game), born in Santa Ana, California (d. 2005)
• 1917-03-23 Kenneth Tobey, American actor (The Thing from Another World, Innerspace, Whirlybirds), born in Oakland, California (d. 2002)
• 1917-03-30 Herbert Anderson, American character actor (Dennis The Menace, Battleground), born in Oakland, California (d. 1994)
• 1917-04-16 Barry Nelson, American actor, first actor to play James Bond, born in San Francisco, California (d. 2007)
• 1917-05-01 Giovanni "John" Beradino, American MLB infielder (St. Louis Browns, Cleveland Indians) and actor (General Hospital), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1996)
• 1917-05-25 Steve Cochran [Robert Alexander Cochran], American actor (Mozambique, Gay Senotiys, Dallas), born in Eureka, California (d. 1965)
• 1917-05-28 Marshall Reed, American actor (The Madmen of Mandoras, Mysterious Island), born in Englewood, Colorado (d. 1980)
• 1917-06-06 Kirk Kerkorian, American CEO and "father of the mega-resort" (MGM, UA), born in Fresno, California (d. 2015)
• 1917-06-18 Richard Boone, American actor (The Richard Boone Show, Have Gun Will Travel), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1981)
• 1917-08-27 Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player, born in Culver City, California (d. 1986)
• 1917-09-22 Peter Adams [James H Adams II], American actor (Zorro, Kraft Mystery Theater, Alternative), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1987)
• 1917-10-28 Jack Soo [Goro Suzuki], Japanese-American actor (Flower Drum Song, Barney Miller), born in Oakland, California (d. 1979)
• 1917-11-07 Howard Rumsey, American jazz musician (Lighthouse Cafe), born in Brawley, California (d. 2015)
• 1917-11-11 Mack Reynolds, American sci-fi author (Earth War), born in Corcoran, California (d. 1983)
• 1917-11-12 Jo Stafford, American pop singer (The Pied Pipers - "I'll Never Smile Again"; Tommy Dorsey - "Let's Just Pretend"; solo - "You Belong to Me"), born in Coalinga, California (d. 2008) [1]
• 1917-11-17 Jack Lescoulie, American TV host (Jackie Gleason Show), born in Sacramento, California (d. 1987)
• 1917-12-13 Dave Street [Patrick Devlin], American actor and singer (Moonrise; I Surrender Dear; Broadway Open House), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1971)
• 1917-12-13 John Hart, American actor (The Lone Ranger, The Adventures of Captain Africa), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2009)
• 1918-01-13 George "Bud" Hamilton, American film make-up artist (Westmore family), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1973)
• 1918-01-26 Vito Scotti [Scozarri], American actor (The Godfather, Flying Nun, Barefoot in the Park), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1996)
• 1918-02-19 Fay McKenzie, American actress (The Party; Sierra Sue), and singer, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2019)

• 1918-04-26 Stafford Repp, American actor (Playhouse 90, Batman, Plunder Road), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1974)

• 1918-06-08 John D. Roberts, American chemist, received American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2013), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2016)
• 1918-06-25 Ken Mayers, American actor (Little Big Man, Dick Tracey, Space Patrol), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1985)

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