All posts tagged "Edmonton Oilers"
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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: 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: The Los Angeles Aqueduct
The Los Angeles Aqueduct This week in California history, the Los Angeles Aqueduct began gushing water on 5 November 1913. In the late nineteenth century,...
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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...
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Preview Professor: The Great One Becomes the Greatest
*NOTE FROM The Royal Half: We are beyond excited to welcome Mike Commito to the pages of The Royal Half as one of the winners of North America’s Next...
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The Royal Draft: Who Are The Kings Going to Take in the 2015 NHL Draft?
For the first time in five seasons, the Los Angeles Kings didn’t qualify for the playoffs. We can all recall the lengthy battles against Western...
