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Daniel Terdiman (May 31, 1974 – ), The Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life. Walter Tevis (1928 – 1994) Robert Alfred Theobald (1884 – 1957), The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor. Adrian Tomine, Optic Nerve. Gail Tsukiyama, The Samurai's Garden. Mark Twain (1835 – April 21, 1910), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
18th century. Las Californias is established in 1768 by New Spain, encompassing the Bay Area. Gaspar de Portolà arrives in the Bay Area in 1769. Mission San Francisco de Asís and El Presidio Real de San Francisco are founded in 1776 in Yerba Buena. Baptisms of the Yelamu by Spanish missionaries begin in 1777.
The San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade is an annual event in San Francisco, California, United States. Held for approximately two weeks following the first day of the Chinese New Year, it combines elements of the Chinese Lantern Festival with a typical American parade. First held in 1851, along what are today Grant Avenue and ...
1945 – Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school. 1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations. 1961 – Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
In 1999, five people were injured when a raft overturned. [ 310] In 2001, a boat filled with park employees overturned when the employees rocked the boat. The establishment was shaken up but no one was injured. [ 310] On August 4, 2009, a family of three and one other park visitor were injured when a boat capsized.
San Francisco Bay Area: Children's: Bay Model Visitor Center: Sausalito: Marin: San Francisco Bay Area: Science: Three-dimensional hydraulic model of San Francisco Bay and Delta areas capable of simulating tides and currents, over 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) in size, operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers: Benicia Capitol State Historic Park ...
San Quentin Rehabilitation Center ( SQ ), formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, [ 2] is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated [ 3] place of San Quentin in Marin County . Established in 1852, and opening in 1854, [ 4] San Quentin is the oldest ...
April 20, 2001. The Camera Obscura is a large-scale camera obscura, in the Lands End area of the Outer Richmond District in western San Francisco, California . It is located immediately adjacent to the Cliff House, perched on the headlands on the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach. Both the Camera and the Cliff House are owned by the National ...