California History Timeline (Part 4)

Events 301 - 400 of 438

• 1986-05-25 Hands Across America - 6.5 million people hold hands from California to NY
• 1986-12-14 Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, takes off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world; lands 9 days later
• 1987-01-06 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy

• 1987-03-08 FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in California
• 1987-04-19 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
• 1987-12-07 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots)

• 1988-10-30 2 gambling clubs & 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot
• 1988-12-06 STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission
• 1989-01-17 Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded

• 1989-03-18 California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios
• 1990-02-07 Lisa Leslie of Morningside HS in Inglewood California scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance HS decides not to play 2nd half & loses 102-24
• 1990-05-24 A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both
• 1990-07-19 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California
• 1991-01-14 Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys, California
• 1991-06-26 Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss

• 1991-07-05 American jockey Ray Sibille wins his 3,000th career race, aboard Sporting Surf at Pleasanton, California
• 1991-09-22 California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public
• 1991-10-04 San Jose Sharks play first NHL game in franchise history, a 4-3 loss in Vancouver; native Californian Craig Coxe scores club's first goal while Jeff Hackett makes an impressive 48 saves

• 1992-04-12 Lynn Gunther of California threatens to blow herself up in front of UN
• 1992-04-21 Robert Alton Harris is put to death in the California Gas Chamber for 3 murders
• 1992-04-22 6.1 earthquake under the Little San Bernadino Mountains, near Joshua Tree, California
• 1992-04-22 Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport California, kills 16 parachutists
• 1992-05-01 Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 yrs prior
• 1992-06-28 2 earthquakes, including 3rd strongest in US (7.4) rock California

• 1993-08-28 Long Beach California beats Panama for little league world championship
• 1993-11-20 Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

• 1994-01-25 US space probe Clementine launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
• 1994-01-28 Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose California, 1 dead
• 1994-04-25 14" of snow in Southern California

• 1994-06-26 126°F (52.2°C) in Death Valley, California

• 1994-12-06 Orange County California files for bankruptcy
• 1995-07-20 The Regents of the University of California vote to end all affirmative action in the UC system by 1997.
• 1995-09-02 Southern California begins using new area code 562

• 1996-12-18 The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect.
• 1997-08-29 Netflix is founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hasting in Scotts Valley, California as an online DVD rental business
• 1997-11-03 California law ends affirmative action
• 1998-01-01 All California bars, clubs & card rooms must be smoke-free

• 1999-03-20 Legoland, California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California
• 2000-01-31 Alaska Airlines flight 261 MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard.
• 2000-07-04 Canadian jockey Russell Baze scores his 7,000th career victory aboard This Is the Moment at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, California
• 2001-02-20 The United States Supreme Court declines to consider an appeal by five major oil companies against Unocal's patent on production of cleaner "reformulated" gasoline sold in California

• 2002-12-18 Governor of California Gray Davis announces the state faces a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier

• 2003-10-07 California holds gubernatorial recall election - Governor Gray Davis loses and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes governor
• 2003-10-12 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, Home Depot Center, Carson, CA: Nia Künzer scores winner in sudden death extra time as Germany beats Sweden, 2-1
• 2003-10-26 The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in Californian history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego
• 2003-12-22 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits near San Simeon, California.

• 2005-01-10 A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
• 2005-01-26 Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.

• 2005-12-03 XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.
• 2006-12-01 Canadian jockey Russell Baze becomes North American horse racing's all-time win leader when Butterfly Belle wins 4th race at Bay Meadows, San Mateo, California; 9,531 victories passes record of Laffit Pincay Jr
• 2007-06-24 The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours
• 2008-05-15 California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
• 2008-06-17 First day of legal same-sex marriage in California

• 2010-08-04 California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger

• 2012-04-26 Indonesia suspends imports of American beef after a confirmed case of mad cow disease in California
• 2012-08-24 A US jury in California finds that Samsung is guilty of patent infringement and awards over US$1 billion in damages to Apple meanwhile in a South Korea court both are found guilty of patent infringement
• 2012-10-01 California becomes the first US state to ban conversion therapy for minors
• 2012-10-24 3 people are shot dead and two critically wounded after being shot by an unknown gunman in Downey, California
• 2012-11-06 5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California
• 2013-02-04 8 people are killed and 30 are injured after a bus collides with two vehicles and flips in Yucaipa, California

• 2013-05-05 5 people are killed after a limousine catches fire in Hayward, California

• 2015-09-13 Governor of California Jerry Brown declares a State of Emergency after wildfires devastate Lake and Napa counties
• 2015-10-05 Governor of California Jerry Brown signs a bill giving terminally ill patients the "right to die"
• 2015-10-19 US scientists from University of California find evidence life on earth may have begun 4.1 billion years ago, 300 million earlier than previously thought
• 2015-12-02 Attack on a social services centre in San Bernardino, California kills 14 and wounds 17
• 2016-01-06 Governor of California Jerry Brown declares state of emergency over methane gas leak on outskirts of Los Angeles
• 2016-04-11 Updated "Tree of Life" published in "Nature Microbiology" by scientists from Berkeley University in California
• 2016-08-16 Wildfire breaks out in San Bernardino County, California, engulfing 15,000 acres, prompting evacuation of 82,000 people
• 2017-02-12 Emergency spillway at Oroville Dam, California threatens to collapse, 180,00 residents ordered to evacuate
• 2017-09-03 Governor of California Jerry Brown issues state of emergency due to La Tuna brush fire near Los Angeles
• 2017-10-08 Wildfires ignite in Northern Californian wine country, killing at least 41 over the next week, with 20,000 evacutated

• 2017-11-22 Californian man Craig Coley pardoned for a double murder after serving 39 years by Governor Jerry Brown. Longest prison term to be overturned in the state.
• 2017-12-04 Thomas fire begins and spreads to city of Ventura, California
• 2017-12-10 Governor of California Jerry Brown tours Southern Californian wildfires and declares them "the new normal"
• 2017-12-11 Six wildfires in Southern California now cover area larger than New York City and Boston combined

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Birthdays 301 - 400 of 2,935

• 1918-07-24 Ruggiero Ricci, American composer and violinist (Paganini), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2012)
• 1918-07-26 Marjorie Lord [Wollenberg], American actress (Make Room for Daddy, Sherlock Holmes in Washington), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2015)
• 1918-08-06 Norman Granz, American jazz record producer (Verve Records; Pablo Records), and impresario (Jazz at the Philharmonic), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2001)
• 1918-08-10 Eugene Wilkinson, naval officer (first nuclear sub commander), born in Long Beach, California (d. 2013)

• 1918-09-21 Rand Brooks [Arlington Rand Brooks Jr.], American actor (Gone With The Wind; Rin Tin Tin), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2003)
• 1918-09-24 Audra Lindley, American actress (Three's Company, The Relic, Ropers), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1997)
• 1918-12-02 Milton Delugg, American pianist, accordion player, composer ("Hoop-Dee-Do"; "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians"), and orchestra leader (The Tonight Show, 1966; The Paul Winchell Show; The Gong Show), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2015) [1]
• 1918-12-13 Bill Vukovich, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500, 1953-4), born in Fresno, California (d. 1955)
• 1919-01-13 Robert Stack, American actor (The Untouchables - "Elliot Ness"; Unsolved Mysteries; Written on the Wind), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2003)
• 1919-01-27 David Seville [Ross Bagdasarian], American songwriter ("Come On A-My House"), singer (Alvin & The Chipmunks - "Witch Doctor"), and actor (Rear Window), born in Fresno, California (d. 1972)
• 1919-02-05 Tim Holt [Charles John Holt III], American actor (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), born in Beverly Hills, California (d. 1973)
• 1919-02-17 Joe Hunt, American tennis player (US National C'ship 1943), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1945)
• 1919-04-18 Virginia O'Brien, American actress and singer (Meet the People; DuBarry Was A Lady; Thousands Cheer), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2001)
• 1919-05-01 Al Zarilla, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1948; St. Louis Browns), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1996)
• 1919-06-29 Slim Pickens [Louis Burton Lindley Jr], American rodeo performer and actor (Dr Strangelove; Blazing Saddles), born in Kingsburg, California (d. 1983)
• 1919-07-26 Virginia Gilmore, American actress (Jennie, Western Union), born in El Monte, California (d. 1986)
• 1919-09-02 Marge Champion (née Belcher), American dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2020)
• 1919-09-16 Andy Russell, American singer (Andy & Della Russell Show), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1992)
• 1919-09-26 Barbara Britton [Brantingham], American actress (Captain Kidd, Young & Willing, Mr. and Mrs. North), born in Long Beach, California (d. 1980)
• 1919-11-15 Joseph Wapner, American judge (People's Court), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2017)
• 1919-11-18 Jocelyn Brando, American actress (The Big Heat, Ugly American, China Venture), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2005)
• 1920-01-06 Earl Kim, Korean-American composer, born in Dinuba, California (d. 1998)
• 1920-01-24 Don Saddler, American choreographer & dancer (Holiday Hotel), born in Van Nuys, California (d. 2014)
• 1920-02-29 James Mitchell, American dancer and actor (All My Children, Bloomer Girl), born in Sacramento, California (d. 2010)
• 1920-03-28 Eugene A. Chappie, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from California, born in Sacramento, California (d. 1992)
• 1920-04-02 Jack Webb, American screenwriter, director and actor (Dragnet, Sunset Boulevard), born in Santa Monica, California (d. 1982)
• 1920-04-22 Hal March [Harold Mendelson], American comedian, actor and TV host ($64,000 Question, Outrage), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1970)
• 1920-05-05 Hidalgo Moya, American architect and designer (Skylon), born in Los Gatos, California (d. 1994)
• 1920-06-29 Ray Harryhausen, American movie special effect artist (Clash of Titans), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2013)
• 1920-07-03 John Lessard, American neo-classical composer, born in San Francisco, California (d. 2003)

• 1920-08-01 Sammy Lee, American diver (Olympic Gold 10m platform 1948, 52), born in Fresno, California (d. 2016)
• 1920-09-01 Richard Farnsworth, American actor (Misery, Havana, Sylvester), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2000)
• 1920-09-13 Carole Mathews [Jean Deifel], American actress (The Californians, Swamp Women), born in Montgomery, Illinois (d. 2014)
• 1920-09-14 Bud Palmer, American basketball player (NY Knicks) and sportscaster, born in Hollywood, California (d. 2013)
• 1920-09-20 Jay Ward, American cartoonist (Rocky & His Friends, Bullwinkle), born in Berkeley, California (d. 1989)
• 1920-09-22 Bob Lemon, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (MLB All-Star 1948–54; World Series 1948; no-hitter 1948; Cleveland Indians) and manager (KC Royals, Chicago White Sox; World Series NY Yankees 1978), born in San Bernardino, California (d. 2000)
• 1920-10-27 Nanette Fabray [Ruby Fabares], American actress and singer (Love Life, Caesar's Hour, One Day at a Time), born in San Diego, California (d. 2018)

• 1920-11-16 Betty Hicks, American golfer, author (US Open runner-up 1948, 54), born in Long Beach, California (d. 2011)
• 1920-12-06 Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist ("Take Five") and composer (Gates of Justice), born in Concord, California (d. 2012)
• 1920-12-11 Eddy Firestone, American radio, television, and film actor (Mixed Doubles), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2007)
• 1920-12-25 Jerome Richardson, American jazz musician, born in Oakland, California (d. 2000)
• 1921-01-03 John Russell, American actor (Pale Rider, Rio Bravo), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1991)

• 1921-03-21 Logan Ramsey, American actor (Head, Joy Sticks, Say Yes), born in Long Beach, California (d. 2000)
• 1921-04-01 William Bergsma, American composer (The Fortunate Islands; The Murder of Comrade Sharik), and educator (Juilliard, 1946-63; University of Washington, 1963-86), born in Oakland, California (d. 1994)
• 1921-04-14 Thomas Schelling, American economist, (Nobel Prize 2005 - game-theory analysis), born in Oakland, California (d. 2016)
• 1921-04-19 Will Ogdon, American composer, born in Redlands, California (d. 2013)
• 1921-05-16 Harry Carey Jr, American actor (Back to the Future Part III, Gremlins), born in Saugus, California (d. 2012)
• 1921-07-29 Richard Egan, American actor (Empire; Redigo; Pollyanna), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1987)
• 1921-08-08 Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (Dangerous When Wet), born in Inglewood California (d. 2013)
• 1921-08-08 Roger Nixon, American composer, born in Tulare, California (d. 2009)
• 1921-10-02 Albert Scott Crossfield, American test pilot (XS-1), born in Berkeley, California (d. 2006)
• 1921-10-19 George Nader, American actor (Robot Monster, Away All Boats), born in Pasadena, California (d. 2002)
• 1921-11-08 Jerome Hines [Heinz], American operatic bass (I am The Way), born in Hollywood, California (d. 2003)
• 1921-12-01 Ralph Manza, American actor (Banacek, Mama Malone, Newhart), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2000)
• 1921-12-05 Peter Hansen, American actor (General Hospital, The War of the Roses), born in Oakland, California (d. 2017)
• 1921-12-28 Johnny Otis [Ioannis Veliotes], American R&B musician, songwriter, producer and talent scout ("Willie and the Hand Jive"; "Cupid's Boogie"), known as "the godfather of rhythm and blues", born in Vallejo California (d. 2012)
• 1921-12-31 Lynn Compton, American jurist (Sirhan Sirhan prosecutor) and commissioned officer (Easy Company, 101st Airborne), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2012)
• 1922-01-19 Guy Madison [Robert Moseley], American actor (Wild Bill Hickok), born in Pumpkin Center, California (d. 1996)
• 1922-01-31 William Sylvester, American actor (2001: A Space Odyssey, Gemini Man), born in Oakland, California (d. 1995)
• 1922-02-13 Tristram Coffin, San Marino, California, folklorist (The Book of Christmas Folklore, The Old Ball Game), (d. 2012)
• 1922-02-27 Jackie Kelso [John Joseph Kelson Jr], American jazz saxophonist and session musician, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2012)
• 1922-03-02 Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, American jazz saxophonist (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band), born in Culver City, California (d. 1986)
• 1922-03-06 Ruben Ayala, Chino, California, politician (California State Senator 1974-1998) (d. 2012)
• 1922-03-10 Adam Kennedy, American actor (The Californians) screenwriter (The Domino Principle), novelist (Just Like Humphrey Bogart), and painter, born in Lafayette, Indiana (d. 1997)
• 1922-03-21 Russ Meyer, American film director (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), born in San Leandro, California (d. 2004)
• 1922-05-06 Carlos Moorhead, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California), born in Long Beach, California (d. 2011)
• 1922-06-08 Myron Healey, American actor (The Lone Ranger, Wyatt Earp), born in Petaluma, Sonoma County California (d. 2005)
• 1922-07-06 William Schallert, American actor (Patty Duke Show - "Martin"; Get Smart - "The Admiral"), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2016)
• 1922-07-19 Rachel Robinson, American social activist and humanitarian (The Jackie Robinson Foundation), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1922-07-31 Lucy Killea, American Californian politician who supported pro-choice, born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 2017)
• 1922-08-08 Rory Calhoun [Francis Timothy McCown], American actor (Blue & Gray, How to Marry a Millionaire), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1999)
• 1922-08-23 Jean Darling, American child actress (Our Gang), born in Santa Monica, California (d. 2015)
• 1922-09-15 Jackie Cooper, American actor and director (Skippy, Superman), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2011)
• 1922-09-20 Frank Comstock, American big band and pop orchestral arranger (Les Brown; Doris Day; Warner Bros; Brian Setzer), film and television composer (Rocky and His Friends; Adam-12), and recording artist (Project: Comstock - Music from Outer Space), born in San Diego, California (d. 2013)
• 1922-10-19 Jack Anderson, American journalist (Washington Post), born in Long Beach, California (d. 1922)
• 1922-12-13 José Sarria, American political activist, drag queen and 1st openly gay candidate for public office in the US (1961), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2013)
• 1923-01-01 Barbara Baxley, American stage and screen actress (Norma Rae; Countdown; Nashville), and singer, born in Stockton, California (d. 1990)
• 1923-01-22 Leslie Bassett, American classical composer (Variations for Orchestra - Pulitzer Prize 1966), and educator (University of Michigan, 1952-92), born in Hanford, California (d. 2016)
• 1923-02-27 Dexter Gordon, American jazz tenor saxophonist (Go!; The Other Side of 'Round Midnight), and actor ('Round Midnight), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1990)
• 1923-04-09 Dann Cahn, American film editor (I Love Lucy, Beverly Hillbillies), born in Hollywood, California (d. 2012)
• 1923-04-13 Mari Blanchard, American actress and femme fatale (Kathy-Klondike), born in Long Beach, California (d. 1970)
• 1923-04-24 Jim Hardy, American NFL quarterback (LA Rams; Pro Bowl 1950), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2019)
• 1923-06-25 Sam Francis, American painter (Basel Mural), born in San Mateo, California (d. 1994)
• 1923-06-26 Barbara Graham, American criminal convicted of murder, born in Oakland, California (d. 1955)
• 1923-07-19 Alex Hannum, American Basketball HOF coach (1st ABA, NBA winning coach; ABA C'ship 1969 Oakland Oaks; NBA C'ship 1958 St. Louis Hawks, 1967 Philadelphia 76ers), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2002)
• 1923-08-10 Rhonda Fleming [Marilyn Louis], American actress and singer nicknamed the "Queen of Technicolor" (Spellbound), born in Hollywood, California (d. 2020)
• 1923-08-21 Arthur "Art" Janov, American psychologist and psychotherapist notable for creating primal therapy (The Primal Scream), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2017)
• 1923-08-24 Arthur Jensen, American psychologist, born in San Diego, California (d. 2012)
• 1923-09-03 Terry Wilson, American actor (Wagon Train, Escape to Witch Mountain), born in Huntington Park, California (d. 1999)

• 1923-10-10 Louis Gottlieb, American musician (The Limeliters), born in La Crescenta, California (d. 1996)
• 1923-10-27 Ned Wertimer, American actor (The Jeffersons), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 2013)
• 1923-11-28 Gloria Grahame [Hallward], American actress (Crossfire; Sudden Fear; Rich Man, Poor Man), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1981)
• 1923-12-04 Charles Keating, American district attorney (Los Angeles California), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 2014)
• 1924-01-17 Jewel Plummer Cobb, American biologist and cancer researcher (melanoma), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2017)
• 1924-03-08 Sean McClory, Irish actor (The Californians, My Chauffeur), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 2003)

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