All posts tagged "Arizona Coyotes"
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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: Sactown
This week in California history, Sacramento was designated the state capital on 25 February 1854. After gold was discovered in 1848, ambitious surveyors, miners, and settlers...
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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: 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: Pineapple Express
This week in California history, in 1906, the Pacific Fruit Express was formed. Jointly owned by the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads, the Express...
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Preview Professor: Rage Against the Machine
This week in California history, Mario Savio delivered his iconic speech on the steps of Sproul Hall at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. Savio was...
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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...
