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