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This is a list of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area, music groups founded in the San Francisco Bay Area or were closely associated with the region for a significant part of the group's active existence. Individual musicians who formed bands under their own name there are included, but not if they were primarily solo artists.
The San Francisco riot of 1877 was a three-day pogrom waged against Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, California by the city's majority Irish population from the evening of July 23 through the night of July 25, 1877. The ethnic violence which swept Chinatown resulted in four deaths and the destruction of more than $100,000 worth of property ...
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 ...
2016 parade. The San Francisco Pride parade is an LGBT pride parade that is held on a Sunday morning as part of a two-day Festival.The route is usually west along San Francisco's Market Street, from Steuart Street to 8th Street and it runs from 10:30 am until almost 4:00 pm. Participants line up off the parade route in advance of the start of the parade.
L-8, later renamed America and popularly known as the " Ghost Blimp ", was a United States Navy L-class airship whose crew disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on August 16, 1942. At 11:15 a.m., several hours after the airship lifted off from Treasure Island, San Francisco, California, L-8 reappeared off the shore of Ocean Beach near Fort Funston.
The San Francisco sound refers to rock music performed live and recorded by San Francisco -based rock groups of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. It was associated with the counterculture community in San Francisco, particularly the Haight-Ashbury district, during these years. [1] San Francisco is a westward-looking port city, a city that at the ...
The Saint Stupid's Day Parade is an annual parade in San Francisco on April 1. [1] It was founded by Ed Holmes (Bishop Joey of the First Church of the Last Laugh [2]) in the late 1970s with the understanding that one of the unifying bonds in society is stupidity. If April 1 falls on a weekday, the parade starts at the foot of Market Street and ...
San Francisco police joined University police around 10:15 a.m. in the unit block of Frida Kahlo Way regarding a dead man that was found. Paramedics at the scene declared the man dead.