California timeline
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Ronald Reagan Announces Candidacy for Governor of California
Reagan moved immediately to capitalize on the momentum of the Goldwater speech and began appearing before Republican gatherings in California and... Read more
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Ronald Reagan is Elected Governor of California
California Republicans were impressed with Reagan's political views and charisma after his "Time for Choosing" speech, and nominated him for... Read more
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Reagan is Sworn in as Governor of California
Reagan is sworn in as governor of California. He inherits a $200 million deficit in a state where the governor is required by Constitution to... Read more
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Students Stage Protest at California State Capitol
Students stage an orderly demonstration in front of the California State Capitol protesting budget cuts and the governor’s request that a tuition... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Signs a Bill Liberalizing California’s Abortion Law
A liberalized abortion law, one of the most emotionally debated issues ever brought before the state legislature, will go-into effect in California... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Calls for a Harder Line on War Protestors
Stop the Draft Week organizers lead 3000 marchers to the Oakland Army Induction Center on October 16, 1967. The sitting protesters force draftees... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Cracks Down on People's Park Protests at UC Berkeley
Reagan was involved in high-profile conflicts with the protest movements of the era. On May 15, 1969, during the People's Park protests at UC... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Wins Reelection for Governor of California
Reagan wins re-election as governor, beating the leader of the California Assembly, Democrat Jesse Unruh. He calls welfare the biggest single... Read more
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Sylmar Earthquake
The earthquake created a zone of discontinuous surface faulting, named the San Fernando fault zone, which partly follows the boundary between the... Read more
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California Legislature Enacts Compromise Welfare Reform
Robert B. Carleson, who helped initiate major changes in the California welfare system in the early 1970s and implemented them as part of then-Gov.... Read more
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PSA Flight 182 Collides with Cessna
Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Flight 182, registration N533PS, was a Boeing 727-214 commercial airliner that collided over San Diego, California... Read more
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San Francisco Bay Region Landslides
On this day in 1982, a series of landslides near San Francisco, California, kills up to 33 people and closes the Golden Gate Bridge. In all, an... Read more
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Whittier Narrows Earthquake
The 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake struck the southern San Gabriel Valley and surrounding communities of southern California at 7:42 a.m. (PDT)... Read more
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Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 Crashes After Pilot is Shot
"There's gunfire on board . . . We're going down." The distress call came from Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 halfway on its run from Los... Read more
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B-2 Stealth Bomber Unveiled
In the presence of members of Congress and the media, the Northrop B-2 "stealth" bomber is shown publicly for the first time at Air Force Plant 42... Read more
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Loma Prieta Earthquake
The time was 5:04 pm on October 17, 1989. Sixty-two thousand baseball fans were preparing to watch the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's in what... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Opens to the Public
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs is the presidential library and final resting place of Ronald Wilson Reagan,... Read more
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2000 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade
This two-tape set documents the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade down Market Street on June 25, 2000. Officially named the San Francisco Lesbian,... Read more
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2001 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade
This is something that I have always wanted to do. I have a friend that lives in the heart of Castro so we had a place to stay and Delta had a... Read more
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2002 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade
San Francisco's annual Pride Parade strutted up Market Street on Sunday, pulsating with energy and packing downtown with gyrating and shouting... Read more
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2003 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade
San Francisco's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade, a celebration of brash camp and inclusive labels, rollicked through the heart of... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Dies
Reagan died at his home in Bel Air, California on June 5, 2004. A short time after his death, Nancy Reagan released a statement saying: "My family... Read more
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2004 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade
John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney dashed to San Francisco's City Hall to get married Feb. 12. No family or friends were there, and they didn't even... Read more
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Glendale Train Crash
A man accused of killing 11 people by parking his truck in a train's path intended to get his estranged wife's attention by causing "a horrific... Read more
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2005 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade
The only Christian evangelical church float in Sunday's gay pride parade in San Francisco sported a rainbow cross, disco music and a giant sign... Read more
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