All posts tagged "Anaheim Ducks"

  • Preview Professor: City of L.A.

    This week in California history, Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on 4 April 1850. Of course, L.A. has a much longer history that stretches...

  • Preview Professor: Earthquake!

    On this day in California history, San Francisco was rocked by an earthquake in 1957. Registering 5.3 on the Richter scale, it was the strongest shock...

  • Preview Professor: Japanese Internment

    This week in California history, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on 19 February 1942, giving the secretary of war the sweeping powers to detain...

  • Preview Professor: Hats Off for Wayne

    This week in California Kings history, Wayne Gretzky scored his 45th career hat trick in a 6-2 win over the Blackhawks on 12 February 1989. His first goal...

  • Preview Professor: The Bear Flag

    On this day in California history, in 1911, the state legislature made the Bear Flag the state’s official banner. The antecedents of the flag can be traced...

  • Preview Professor: The Aviator

    On this day in 1937 in California history, millionaire aviator Howard Hughes broke the landplane distance speed record when he piloted his aircraft, the Winged...

  • Preview Professor: Money Talks

      This week in California history, Los Angeles Kings owner Jack Kent Cooke made headlines when he threatened to fine his players $100 each for not protesting a...

  • Preview Professor: Gold, Frankincense & Muir

      This week in California history, naturalist and preservationist John Muir passed away in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve in 1914. Born in Scotland in...

  • Preview Professor: The Rock

    The Rock: Alcatraz 1969 This week in California history, Alcatraz was seized by eighty-nine Native American protesters on 20 November 1969. The group consisted of...

  • Preview Professor: Black Bart

    Black Bart Strikes Again! In this week in California history, notorious stagecoach (covered wagon) bandit Charles Earl Bowles, aka Black Bart, was reported to have added...