All posts tagged "Vancouver Canucks"
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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: 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 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: 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: 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: The Royal Rebound
The Royal Rebound We didn’t have to dig too far into the archives this week to bring some notable California hockey history. On this day in 2007, Los...
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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...
