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