Esta es una cronología del área de la Bahía de San Francisco en California , de los eventos en los nueve condados que bordean la Bahía de San Francisco y de la bahía misma.
Se puede encontrar una lista idéntica de eventos, con un formato diferente, aquí .
Durante la glaciación cuaternaria que comenzó hace 2,58 millones de años, la cuenca que ocupará la bahía es un gran valle lineal con pequeñas colinas, similar a la mayoría de los valles de la Cordillera Costera . Los ríos del Valle Central desembocan en el mar a través de un cañón que se convertirá en el Golden Gate . A medida que las capas de hielo se derriten, los niveles del mar aumentan 300 pies (91 m) durante los siguientes 4000 años y el valle se llena de agua del Pacífico.
El pueblo Ohlone (en la foto) habitó la región del Área de la Bahía hace 6000 años, con una población estimada en 1770 de entre 10 000 y 20 000 personas.
Los Miwok de la costa habitaron la región de Sonoma hace 4.000 años, con una población estimada en 1770 de 2.000 habitantes.
El pueblo Patwin habitó la región norte de la Bahía hace 1.500 años, con una población estimada en 1770 de 12.000 habitantes.
En 1539, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo desembarca en unas islas cercanas a la costa de California y las llama Farallones , término español para acantilados o pequeños islotes puntiagudos.
El 13 de noviembre de 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo avista una península desde su barco y la nombra " Cabo de Pinos " , sin llegar a la entrada a la Bahía de San Francisco.
A pesar de los numerosos barcos de vela que recorren la costa, ningún barco descubre el Golden Gate y la bahía de San Francisco, debido a factores como la niebla y a que los barcos evitan navegar cerca de la costa [1].
• Se abre un pequeño puesto de café (menú de 1983 en la foto, a la izquierda) en Clay Street en San Francisco • Se establece Boudin Bakery en San Francisco, que produce pan de masa madre de San Francisco (panes en la foto, a la derecha)
• Alta California comienza a publicar en San Francisco • Bayard Taylor visita San Francisco y Gold Country, y escribe sobre la fiebre del oro • El barco ballenero Niantic queda varado por su tripulación en la costa de San Francisco, que lo abandona para unirse a la fiebre del oro • Los inmigrantes irlandeses Peter y James Donahue fundan Union Iron Works (en la foto) en South of Market, San Francisco
• La población de San Francisco es de 25.000 habitantes, un aumento del 2.400% con respecto a los 1.000 de 1848
La fiebre del oro de California llega a su fin cuando sólo grupos medianos o grandes de trabajadores pueden extraer oro de manera rentable, ya sea en sociedades o como empleados.
Las Hermanas de la Misericordia inauguran el Hospital St. Mary en Stockton Street , San Francisco, el primer hospital católico al oeste de las Montañas Rocosas (en la foto se ven las ruinas del hospital en 1906)
La Congregación Beth Israel-Judea se forma en San Francisco a partir de la fusión de la Congregación Conservadora Beth Israel y el Templo Reformista Judea
Se funda en San Francisco la Pacific Rolling Mill Company , la primera fundición productora de hierro y acero del Oeste (laminadora de la época en la foto) .
Se libra un pogromo de dos días contra los inmigrantes chinos en San Francisco por parte de la población mayoritariamente blanca de la ciudad , lo que resulta en cuatro muertes y la destrucción de propiedades por valor de más de 100.000 dólares pertenecientes a la población inmigrante china de la ciudad.
El Pacific-Union Club de San Francisco (en la foto) se funda como una fusión de dos clubes anteriores: el Pacific Club (fundado en 1852) y el Union Club (fundado en 1854).
Le Petit Trianon (en la foto), cerca del valle de Santa Clara, fue construido para Charles A. Baldwin y su esposa Ellen Hobart Baldwin, como el centro de su finca productora de vino.
• Estados Unidos contra Wong Kim Ark se decide a favor de Wong Kim Ark (en la foto, a la izquierda) , que por lo tanto es considerado ciudadano estadounidense • Se inaugura el Ferry Building de San Francisco (en la foto, a la derecha) , diseñado por A. Page Brown • Bernard JS Cahill construye un columbario (en la foto, a la derecha) en el cementerio Odd Fellows de San Francisco , para complementar un columbario anterior construido por él
• El Hotel Baldwin (en la foto, a la derecha) en San Francisco, construido en 1876, se incendia
• Francis K. Shattuck muere después de ser atropellado por un hombre que salía de un tren al que Shattuck intentaba abordar en la homónima avenida Shattuck
George A. Wyman se convierte en la primera persona en viajar en motocicleta (y la primera en utilizar un vehículo motorizado) a través de los EE. UU., desde San Francisco hasta la ciudad de Nueva York.
• El 17 de abril, Daniel Burnham presenta los planos (en la foto, a la izquierda) para el rediseño de San Francisco. • Al día siguiente, un gran terremoto golpea San Francisco, provocando incendios que queman gran parte de la ciudad hasta los cimientos. 3.000 personas mueren durante el desastre.
John Sabatte abre South Berkeley Creamery (logotipo actual en la imagen) , que vende leche de granjeros locales en los condados de Alameda y Contra Costa (incluidas las " granjas de Berkeley " ) (se muestra un clip de sonido que simula un anuncio de radio de la empresa)
Chauncey Thomas abre The Tile Shop en San Pablo Avenue en Berkeley para fabricar y vender azulejos de loza ( en la foto, la torre del castillo Hearst , decorada con azulejos de loza de California)
El parque Dewing en el condado de Contra Costa pasa a llamarse Saranap en honor a la madre del desarrollador del sistema ferroviario interurbano local, Sara Napthaly
Muere John Swett , ex superintendente de las escuelas públicas de San Francisco y "padre de la escuela pública de California"
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, una gran explosión de barcazas cargadas con municiones en el Astillero Naval de Mare Island mata a 6 personas, hiere a otras 31 y destruye algunas instalaciones portuarias.
Wines & Vines , una revista dedicada al negocio del vino en América del Norte(en la foto se muestran las primeras cosechas de Wine Country), comienza a publicarse enel condado de Marin
Lawndale se incorpora al condado de San Mateo , a instancias de los propietarios de cementerios de la zona, que se habían establecido después de que San Francisco prohibiera todos los cementerios en 1900 y eliminara la mayoría de los existentes de la ciudad.
George Whitney se convierte en director general de un complejo de atracciones costeras con distintos nombres junto a Ocean Beach en San Francisco, y lo bautiza como "Playland-at-the-Beach" (Big Dipper en la foto)
Se compran 680 acres de tierra en Oakland para crear una pista de aterrizaje para el aeropuerto que, cuando se termina a tiempo para la carrera aérea Dole , con 7.020 pies, se convierte en la más larga del mundo. Más tarde ese mismo año, Charles Lindbergh inaugura el aeropuerto.
El estado de California adquiere suficiente tierra para crear un pequeño parque estatal alrededor de la cima del Monte Diablo (en la foto) en el condado de Contra Costa
Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. abre un pequeño bar/restaurante frente a la tienda de comestibles de sus padres en San Pablo Avenue y 65th Street en Oakland , al que originalmente llamó "Hinky Dink's" (el menú de Trader Vic's se muestra a la izquierda)
El estudio de arquitectura Anshen + Allen (el edificio internacional de San Francisco, diseñado por el estudio, en la foto) es fundado por Rob Anshen, discípulo de Frank Lloyd Wright , y Steve Allen, en San Francisco.
Comienza el alistamiento para la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el Área de la Bahía (oficina de reclutamiento de San Francisco en la foto)
Una goleta de dos mástiles, Benicia , construida en Tahití por un carpintero de barcos que había trabajado en el astillero Benicia de Matthew Turner , llega a San Francisco bajo bandera francesa.
La mariposa azul de Xerces fue observada por última vez en San Francisco este año o en 1943.
Tras el final efectivo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el Día de la Victoria sobre Japón , miles de personas borrachas, la gran mayoría de ellas alistados de la Marina que no habían servido en el teatro de guerra, se embarcaron en lo que el San Francisco Chronicle resumió en 2015 como "una orgía de tres noches de vandalismo, saqueo, asalto, robo, violación y asesinato" y "los disturbios más mortíferos en la historia de la ciudad", con más de 1000 personas heridas, 13 muertas y al menos seis mujeres violadas. [9]
16 personas mueren durante una serie de ataques con motivos raciales, conocidos como los asesinatos de Zebra , cometidos por hombres afroamericanos contra víctimas mayoritariamente blancas en San Francisco, que continúan hasta 1974.
909 miembros del Templo del Pueblo con sede en San Francisco mueren, principalmente por envenenamiento con cianuro, en un proyecto agrícola llamado Jonestown en Guyana , luego del asesinato de otros cinco por miembros del Templo en Port Kaituma , incluido el congresista estadounidense Leo Ryan (en la foto) del Área de la Bahía.
El censo de los Estados Unidos de 1990 indica que San José ha superado oficialmente a San Francisco como la ciudad más poblada del Área de la Bahía. [14]
El consultor político de San Francisco, Ryan Chamberlain, es detenido por el FBI y el Departamento de Policía de San Francisco después de que supuestamente se descubrieran materiales explosivos en su apartamento.
Paul McCartney ofrece un concierto en Candlestick Park , el último evento que se celebró en el recinto, y 50 años después de que The Beatles ofrecieran su último concierto allí.
El entrenador de golf de Livermore, Andrew Nisbet, es sentenciado a 27 años de prisión por cargos de abusar sexualmente de tres de sus estudiantes menores de edad y luego conspirar para matarlos mientras se encontraba detenido en la cárcel [15].
El director ejecutivo de Apple, Inc., Tim Cook, afirma en un editorial que está "orgulloso de ser gay", convirtiéndose en el primer líder abiertamente gay de una importante empresa estadounidense.
Susan Xiao-Ping Su, fundadora y expresidenta de la extinta Universidad Tri-Valley con sede en Pleasanton , es sentenciada a 16 años de prisión por fraude postal y de visas
Hasta 18.000 enfermeras de al menos 21 hospitales de Kaiser Permanente y 35 clínicas de la zona de la Bahía se declaran en huelga, citando problemas con los estándares de atención al paciente y las salvaguardas contra el ébola.
Una gran tormenta (video mostrado) deja a 150.000 hogares sin electricidad en toda el Área de la Bahía
San José derriba La Jungla , el campamento de personas sin hogar más grande del país [16]
Google presenta un prototipo completamente funcional del coche sin conductor de Google , con planes de probarlo en las carreteras del Área de la Bahía a partir de 2015
Christie White, residente de San Francisco y que lucha contra el cáncer, demanda al estado de California por el derecho a morir en casa mediante suicidio asistido por un médico [22]
El Centro Médico de la UCSF recibe una donación filantrópica de 100 millones de dólares de Chuck Feeney , la mayor donación realizada por un individuo en la historia del sistema de la UC. [24]
Los científicos (en la foto) del Centro de Investigación Ames anuncian que han sintetizado "... uracilo , citosina y timina , los tres componentes del ARN y el ADN , de forma no biológica en un laboratorio y en condiciones propias del espacio". [25]
El informe del Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos , "Pronóstico de ruptura del tercer terremoto uniforme en California", estima que hay un 72 por ciento de posibilidades de que un terremoto de magnitud 6,7 o mayor golpee el Área de la Bahía antes del año 2044 [26].
La Brookings Institution informa que San Francisco tiene la gente más rica, en el 5% superior de su población, de todas las grandes ciudades de Estados Unidos, y la desigualdad de ingresos de más rápido crecimiento. Los más ricos de SF son los más ricos del país.
El puente San Mateo-Hayward se cierra al tráfico, por primera vez desde su apertura en 1967, para su repavimentación y mantenimiento. [36] [37]
El fiscal de distrito de San Francisco, George Gascón, ordena una revisión de al menos 3.000 arrestos en los últimos 10 años, en respuesta a la evidencia de que los oficiales del Departamento de Policía de San Francisco pueden haber mostrado prejuicios raciales, basándose en haber enviado mensajes de texto racistas y homofóbicos [38]
La población de San José es ahora oficialmente de más de 1.000.000, lo que la convierte en la décima ciudad más grande de los Estados Unidos, según el censo de EE. UU. [45]
Los vándalos dañan una presa inflable en el arroyo Alameda en Fremont , liberando 50 millones de galones de agua potable en la bahía de San Francisco [46]
El ex senador estatal Leland Yee se declara culpable de un cargo federal de crimen organizado, confesando haber utilizado sus candidaturas para secretario de estado y alcalde de San Francisco para extorsionar y pedir sobornos [52]
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, including Peidong Yang(pictured, above), announce they were able to induce Moorella thermoacetica to photosynthesize, despite its not being photosynthetic. It also synthesized semiconductor nanoparticles, thus using light to produce chemical products other than those produced in photosynthesis.[64]
A federal court jury in San Francisco finds Raymond Chow Kwok-cheung guilty of all 162 charges against him, including murder, after a five year long undercover federal operation[65]
Apple Inc says it will not comply with an FBI request to provide unblocking software for an IPhone owned by one of the perpetrators of the 2015 San Bernardino attack
Hundreds of pages of University of California, Berkeley records are released, showing a pattern of documented sexual harassment and firings of non-tenured staff[73]
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passes a parental leave law requiring employers to offer six weeks of fully paid leave for new parents, the first city in the US to do so.[74]
The Golden State Warriors win against the Memphis Grizzlies, their 73rd win of the season, breaking the previous NBA record, held by the 1995–96 Chicago Bulls, for the most victories in a single season[76]
Napster founder and philanthropist Sean Parker donates $250 million to create the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, with funds going to over 300 scientists at 40 laboratories, in 6 institutions, including the University of California at San Francisco[77]
A poll of 1,000 people, by the Bay Area Council, showed that 34 percent are considering leaving the area, due primarily to the high costs of living and housing, and traffic.[80]
It is revealed that the FBI hid microphones outside an Oakland Alameda County Superior Courtbuilding(pictured), between March 2010 and January 2011, as part of an investigation into bid rigging and fraud by Alameda and San Mateo County real estate investors, this done without a warrant[83]
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art(pictured) reopens after the completion of a two-and-a-half-year expansion, by architecture firm Snøhetta, more than doubling the gallery space[84][85]
Pittsburg moves to install surveillance cameras along California State Route 4, in response to a series of 20 freeway shootings in the area that have taken the lives of six people, and injured 11, in the past year[86]
The San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority's ballot measure, the San Francisco Bay Clean Water, Pollution Prevention, and Habitat Restoration Program, passes with 2/3 of the vote in the 9 Bay Area counties, providing $500 million in funding for wetland restoration and other projects[90]
Oakland Police Departmentchief Sean Whent steps down, while the department is being investigated for an alleged sex scandal possibly involving an underage girl, following the suicide of one officer associated with the scandal[93]
In San Francisco's highly volatile housing market, a North Beach resident's rent is increased by 344%, from $1,800 a month to $8,000, with him facing eviction for nonpayment[95]
The Sonoma Stompersprofessional baseball team add two female players to their roster, outfielder-pitcher Kelsie Whitmore and infielder Stacy Piagno, the first women to play professional baseball for a mixed-gender team in the US since the 1950s.[98]
San Francisco bans the sale of products made from expanded polystyrene(typical pollution pictured), including packing material, buoys and cups, the most stringent ban on foam-type plastics in the US[99]
More than 140 Silicon Valley technology figures, including Steve Wozniak, Vinod Khosla(pictured), and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, sign a statement opposing Donald Trump's campaign for the presidency, saying it will potentially have a negative impact on innovation Silicon Valley Writes a Protest Letter Against Trump
The San Francisco Millennium Tower(pictured) is found to have sunk 16 inches since construction, and is tilting 2 inches towards the northwest[102]
California declares that Napa County, and California, are free of the invasive species Lobesia botrana(pictured), known as the "European grapevine moth", with no moths found since June 2014[103]
Governor Jerry Brown signs legislation banning the use of state transportation funds for new coal export terminals, in response to a developer's failed proposal to build a coal terminal at the Port of Oakland[105]
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz(pictured) donates $20 million to a number of elections organizations, with the express purpose of supporting Democratic Party candidates and issues, and defeating Donald Trump, making him the 3rd largest donor in the 2016 campaigns[108]
Influential San Francisco political activist and broker Rose Pak, an advocate for the Chinatown community, dies in San Francisco[110]
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announces a new science program, Chan Zuckerberg Science, with $3 billion in investment over the next decade, with the goal of helping to cure, manage, or prevent all disease by the year 2100. $600 million is to be spent on Biohub, a location in San Francisco's Mission Bay District near the University of California, San Francisco[111][112]
Theranos announces it will close its laboratory operations, shutter its wellness centers and lay off around 40 percent of its work force, while focusing on an initiative to create miniature medical testing machines[117]
A new California law, authored by San JoseAssemblywomanNora Campos(pictured), will allow San Jose to be the first California city to create "tiny homes" for the homeless, bypassing some state building codes[119]
The US Justice Department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services releases a 432-page report stating that the San Francisco Police Department stops and searches African Americans at a higher rate than other groups, and inadequately investigates officers use of force. The report details "numerous indicators of implicit and institutionalized bias against minority groups", with a large majority of suspects killed by police being people of color[121]
Wells Fargo chairman and CEO John Stumpf announces he will retire, shortly after the bank is issued $185 million in fines for creating over 1.5 million checking and savings accounts and 500,000 credit cards that its customers never authorized. This includes $100 million in fines from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the largest in the agency's history.[123]
Tesla Motors posts a profitable quarter, their first in 8 quarters, defying industry expectations[124]
The nine Bay Area counties all vote overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton for president, from 62% (Solano County) to 85% (San Francisco)[126]
Hundreds of people turn out in San Francisco (pictured), Oakland and Berkeley, protesting the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, blocking freeways, lighting fires and chanting, "Not our president" and "Fuck Trump"[127]
MayorEd Lee declares that San Francisco will remain a sanctuary city, in response to the election of Donald Trump as president, stating, "I know that there are a lot of people who are angry and frustrated and fearful, but our city's never been about that. We have been and always have been a city of refuge, a city of sanctuary, a city of love."[131]
With the approval of both companies' shareholders, Tesla Motors will merge with SolarCity, which will expedite Elon Musk's plans to introduce solar roofing tiles to integrate with home automobile charging[132]
An American-born, non-Muslim woman in Fremont, finds a note on her car, reading "Hijab wearing bitch this is our nation now get the fuck out", after making a peace walk to the top of Mission Peak, where presumably the note writer had observed her wearing a head scarf, which she wears to protect her scalp from the sun, due to having lupus. The incident is part of a wave of 437 incidents of hateful intimidation or harassment, since the presidential election, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center[133]
During a concert at the SAP Center at San Jose, Kanye West is booed by shoe-throwing fans, as he goes on a political tirade, including stating that he had not voted in the presidential election, but that "If I would have voted, I would have voted for Trump"[134]
San Jose teacher and transgender activist Dana Rivers (formerly David Warfield), who made headlines in 1999 for fighting unsuccessfully to keep a teaching position in Sacramento after sharing her transition with her high school students, is arrested in Oakland, charged with the murders of 3 acquaintances: married couple Patricia Wright and Charlotte Reed, and their 19-year-old son, Toto Diambu-Wright[135][136]
Copies of an anti-Muslim letter are sent to the Evergreen Islamic Center in San Jose, and Islamic Centers in Long Beach and Claremont, reading, in part, "Your day of reckoning has arrived, there's a new sheriff in town — President Donald Trump. He's going to cleanse America and make it shine again. And, he's going to start with you Muslims... [he is] going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the jews [sic]."[138]
A liberal household in Concord is targeted at night by vandals, who plant 56 United States flags defaced with pro-Trump remarks such as "Build The Damn Wall" and "I Luv The Donald", and who then cut the house's power, causing a loud explosion[139]
San Francisco area activist Gregory Lee Johnson, the defendant in the landmark 1989 Supreme Court decision Texas v. Johnson abolishing laws against flag burning on free speech grounds, declares that Donald Trump is "using the bully pulpit for fascism and forced patriotism", after Trump tweets "Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag — if they do, there must be consequences — perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!" Donald Trump is a ‘fascist,’ says landmark Supreme Court case ‘flag-burner’ Gregory Lee Johnson
The Biomimetic Millisystems Lab at the University of California, Berkeley designs a wall-jumping robot, called Salto (Latin for jump), modelled after the galago, and which is described as the most vertically agile robot ever built[142][143][144]
John Stewart, chief judge at the San Francisco Superior Court, discards 66,000 arrest warrants for criminal infractions, like sleeping on the sidewalk, public urination and public drunkenness, stating "You're putting somebody in jail because they're poor and can't pay a fine. We got a lot of criticism, but we thought it was the right thing to do."[145]
Uber rolled out self-driving cars(test vehicle pictured) in San Francisco, its headquarter city, and is almost immediately ordered to stop the service by the California Department of Motor Vehicles, which cited it as illegal until an autonomous vehicle testing permit is acquired[147]
Yahoo reports that hackers had, in 2013, stolen data on more than 1 billion user accounts, the largest hack worldwide to date[148]
After a series of storms hit California, including January storms causing flooding on the Russian River, Northern California, including the Bay Area, is no longer in drought[151]
Kevin Starr(pictured), American historian and California's State Librarian, best known for his multi-volume series on the history of California, collectively called "Americans and the California Dream", dies in San Francisco, the home of his birth as a seventh-generation Californian[153]
Protests of the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump occur in cities across the Bay Area (SF protest pictured),[154] including local versions of the Women's March on Washington,[155] a human chain along the span of the Golden Gate Bridge(pictured),[156] and a 90% no show of dockworkers at the Port of Oakland[157]
Pacific Gas and Electric is ordered by U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson to publicly advertise its guilt in violating pipeline safety laws, and obstruction of justice, in the 2010 San Bruno explosion(fires that night pictured), pay $3 million in fines, and make its employees perform 10,000 hours of community service, including at least 2,000 hours by high-level officials[160]
Protesters of the executive order suspending entry of certain foreign nationals are joined at San Francisco International Airport by Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and president of Alphabet, who states "I'm here because I'm a refugee",[162] while the airport issues a statement in support of the protesters, saying "We share [[their]] concerns deeply, as our highest obligation is to the millions of people from around the world whom we serve. Although Customs and Border Protection services are strictly federal and operate outside the jurisdiction of all U.S. airports, including SFO, we have requested a full briefing from this agency to ensure our customers remain the top priority. We are also making supplies available to travelers affected by this Executive Order, as well as to the members of the public who have so bravely taken a stand against this action by speaking publicly in our facilities." (protesters pictured)[163]
San Francisco becomes the first city to sue the Trump Administration over his executive order to deny federal funds to sanctuary cities, joining 2 states that have sued[164]
Berkeley mayor Jesse Arreguín receives thousands of hateful, racist, abusive and threatening messages, including death threats, following his criticism of Milo Yiannopoulos' attempted talk at UC Berkeley, initially describing him as a white nationalist, then apologizing and changing the description to "alt-rightist"[165]
San Francisco is ranked third in traffic congestion of all major US cities, according to the traffic and driver analytics company INRIX(Third Street congestion pictured)[175]
More than 200 residents are rescued by boat, in the Rocksprings neighborhood of San Jose, due to flooding at Coyote Creek from storm water released at Anderson Lake(dam and spillway pictured)[176] Over 14,000 households are subject to mandatory evacuation due to widespread flooding that exceeds the 100-year flood zone[177]
Santa Clara County is the first county in the nation to file a motion requesting that a Federal judge halt implementation of the Trump Administration's executive order withholding federal funding for sanctuary cities[179]
The Jewish Anti-Defamation League offices in San Francisco receive two consecutive bomb threats, as do other Bay Area Jewish community centers, part of a widespread wave of over 100 threats and criminal actions directed against the US Jewish community in 2017[180][181][182]
Berkeley is the first city in the US to declare they will refuse to conduct business with companies that are involved with the US/Mexico border wall proposed by President Trump, and will move to divest from those companies that they have investments in[185]
Women's clothing retailer Bebe begins closing all 175 of its stores, to become an exclusively online retailer[194][195]
The area's first officially sanctioned "Weed Day" takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park[196]
Tens of thousands turn out in San Francisco on Earth Day at the local March for Science, to protest federal budget cuts to science research, with Mythbusters host Adam Savage saying "The enemy of science isn't politics or a party or an ideology or a law — it is bias, and bias is everywhere. Science is the rigorous elimination of bias. That is a good thing."[197]
In response to requests by Santa Clara County and San Francisco, U.S. District Judge William Orrick temporarily blocks Executive Order 13768, which had threatened to deny federal funding to sanctuary cities, writing "The statements of the President, his press secretary and the Attorney General belie the Government's argument in the briefing that the Order does not change the law. They have repeatedly indicated an intent to defund sanctuary jurisdictions in compliance with the Executive Order."..."The threat of the Order and the uncertainty it is causing impermissibly interferes with the Counties' ability to operate, to provide key services, to plan for the future, and to budget."[198][199]
May
At least 80 leopard sharks wash up dead on the shores of San Francisco Bay, possibly due to a fungal infection, with likely as many as 1,000 dying and sinking since early March[200]
Fourteen large wildfires, including the Atlas and Tubbs Fires, spread over a 200-mile region north of San Francisco, in Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties, kill at least 10 people and destroy over 1,500 structures (smoke from fires pictured)[209]
Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an undocumented immigrant, is found not guilty of murder for the 2015 shooting of Kathryn Steinle on a San Francisco pier, in a case that had touched off a national immigration debate. San Francisco pier shooting jury ends Day 5 without verdict - The Washington Post
Silicon Valley software engineer Susan Fowler and San Francisco lobbyist Adama Iwu are featured, with other women, on the cover of Time's 2017 Person of the Year issue, this year given to "The Silence Breakers", people who spoke out against sexual abuse and harassment[213]
Senator Dianne Feinstein formally asks Immigration and Customs Enforcement to investigate the West County Detention Center, where multiple federal detainees have stated that they were not allowed to use restrooms. Feinstein wrote, "It has been reported that the conditions are so deplorable that detainees are requesting deportation over pursuing claims in immigration court"[217]
Buddy's Cannabis Shop, in San Jose, is the first California business to obtain a state Marijuana Micro-Business License, which, along with a city business license, will make it the first fully licensed recreational marijuana shop in California, when it becomes legal on 1 January 2018[218][219]
Everitt Aaron Jameson, a 25-year-old former marine, is arrested by the FBI on suspicion of planning a terror attack in the Pier 39 area of San Francisco over Christmas.[220]
More than 150,000 people attend 2018 Women's March protests across the Bay Area, adding the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements to the protests against President Donald Trump(San Francisco event pictured) Bay Area women take to the streets in second annual march
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors votes to replace acting mayor London Breed with an interim mayor, former supervisor Mark Farrell(pictured), amid accusations of racism Political Uproar as Mark Farrell Replaces London Breed as S.F. Mayor
San Jose mayor Sam Liccardo resigns from the Federal Communications Commission Broadband Advisory Board, citing undue influence from telecommunications companies San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo quits FCC broadband advisory board
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announces his department will begin to retroactively apply Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, which legalized the possession and recreational use of marijuana for adults ages 21 years or older, to misdemeanor and felony convictions dating back to 1975, recalling and re-sentencing up to 4,940 felony marijuana convictions and dismissing and sealing 3,038 misdemeanors[222]
The Berkeley City Council declares Berkeley a "sanctuary city" for recreational cannabis sales, prohibiting the use of city resources to assist in enforcing federal marijuana laws or providing information on legal cannabis sales, the first city in California to do so[223]
Marin County is ranked worst among all California counties in racial disparity, according to Race Counts and Advancement Project California, with a spokesperson for the groups stating, "We were surprised, and were not expecting Marin to be the number-one county in terms of disparity...It's not that progressive counties have it all figured out"[224]
Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announces that her office will review thousands of marijuana convictions, dating back to 1974, for possible dismissal under Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, guidelines, following closely after San Francisco announced a similar plan (above)[225]
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf alerts city residents to imminent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, earning criticism from some federal authorities. She responds, "I was sharing information in a way that was legal and was not obstructing justice, and it was an opportunity to ensure that people were aware of their rights."[226]
Two studies conclude that the housing crisis in the Bay Area and California is reaching emergency proportions, with one study estimating that two counties alone, Santa Clara and Alameda, will need more than 50,000 new homes to meet the demand for affordable housing for lower-income residents, while homelessness increased by 36% in Alameda County from 2016-2017[228]
The father of some of the ten children that were removed from a home in Fairfield, where they were living in conditions of severe neglect and abuse, is arrested and booked on seven counts of torture and nine counts of felony child abuse[229]
A nine-story electronic sculpture, "Day for Night", created by artist Jim Campbell, that features low resolution, abstract videos of San Francisco, debuts at the top of Salesforce Tower[230][231]
June
San Francisco voters pass an ordinance banning the sale of flavored tobacco products, due in part to concerns that candy-flavored products may lure teenagers into nicotine addiction[232]
Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, and former president and COO Ramesh Balwani are indicted on charges of wire fraud, accused of carrying out a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud investors, doctors and patients. Theranos announced that Holmes would resign as CEO, but retain her position as chairwoman of the board[235]
Nia Wilson, an African American woman, is killed while exiting MacArthur BART station, when a white male attacked her and one of her two sisters with her, with strong suspicions that this was a racially motivated hate crime[238]
Ron Dellums(pictured), former East Bay US Representative and mayor of Oakland, known for his fiery anti-Vietnam War oratory and progressive politics, dies at his home in Washington, D.C.[239][240]
Apple Inc becomes the first company in history to reach $1,000,000,000,000 in value[241]
The Salesforce Transit Center opens in San Francisco, initially as a hub for bus lines including MUNI and AC Transit, and eventually nearly a dozen other transit agencies, including BART and Caltrain[242]
A study by the California Association of Realtors shows that only about 1 in 5 Bay Area residents can afford the median purchase price for a home, with state home affordability rates at a 10 year low[243]
A jury in San Francisco awards 46-year-old former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson US$289m in damages againstMonsanto, after alleging that it had spent decades hiding the cancer-causing dangers of its Roundup herbicides.[244]
The Global Climate Action Summit convenes in San Francisco, hosted by California governor Jerry Brown, who pledges to uphold state environmental guidelines despite moves by the United States to roll them back[246]
San Francisco businessman and co-founder of Salesforce.com, Marc Benioff, and his wife, Lynn Benioff, purchase Time magazine for $190 million Time Magazine Sold to Salesforce Founder Marc Benioff for $190 Million
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