All posts tagged "Anaheim Ducks"
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
