Appendix E -- Historical Reference
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1542 Cabrillo
1 A Explorers Orange 1766-1769.07.28 8.2
1766 *** time post #0 *** [3 yrs - #19 choice]
1769 LA christened
1769.07.28 - Orange - VIII-IX
-20- (horse) ********************
1771 Mission San Gabriel Archangel
1781 LA founded
- B (Watchers) Owens Valley 1789-1792 IX
1789 *** time post #1 *** [3 yrs - #18 choice]
1792.??.?? - Owens Valley - Indians: 80yrs <1872 quake
-20- (horse) ********************
1793 Francisco Reyes 1st mayor (alcalde), black
1804 1st orrange grove @ MSG
2 C Californios Santa Barbara 1809-1812.12.21 _._
1809 *** time post #2 *** [3 yrs - #17 choice]
1810 Pueblo of LA forced padres at Mission
San Fernando to remove dam from LA river
1812.12.08 - Santa Barbara - VIII-IX
1812.12.21 - Santa Barbara
-24- (ship) ********************
1812 earthquake topples bell tower at MSG,
destroys new church at SJC
1818 oldest buildings still standing
1825 flood changed river course (fr Ballona Crk)
1826 Jedediah Smith - 1st white overland
1835-36 "2 Years Before the Mast"
- D (Pirates) San Fran. Bay 1836-1838.06 X
1836 *** time post #3 *** [2 yrs - #16 choice]
1836.06.10 - E SF bay - IX-X
1838.06.__ - SF peninsula
-19- (wagon) ********************
1851 Mormons from SLC founded San Berdardino &
abandoned due to Indian raids
1855 1st schoolhouse "out in the country"
Spring & 2nd
3 E Yankees Kern 1855-1857.06.09 8.5
1855 *** time post #4 *** [2 yrs - #15 choice]
1857.06.09 - Kern - 8.5 "knocked down bldgs LA to Ventura"
-8- (stage) ********************
1858 Butterfield Overland Mail Co. linked LA to
SF and St Lois (via El Paso & Yuma)
1860 1st LA telegraph, San Berdoo Mts gold rush
1861 flood isolated So Cal by land
1862 drought began, wiping out ranchers
- F (Hermits) SF, Alameda 1863-1865.03.21 7.8
1863 *** time post #5 *** [5 yrs - #14 choice]
1865.03.08 - SF & San Jose - 6.9
1865.10.08 - SF
1868 Pio Pico opened Pico House
1868.03.21 - Alameda, near Hayward - 7.8
4 G Civilizers Owens Valley 1870-1872.03.26 8.2
1870 *** time post #_ *** [2 yrs]
1872 horse trolley connected Plaza with
6th & Pearl (Figueroa)
LA High School built @ Temple & Broadway
1872.03.26 - Inyo, Owens Valley near Lone Pine - 8.2
-8- (rail) ********************
1873 1st naval oranges planeted (Brazilian,
winter-ripening)
1875 Pasadena & Santa Monica founded
- H (Faith Keepers)
San Benito 1878-1880.10.31 IX
1878 *** time post #_ *** [2 yrs]
1880.10.31 - San Benito, near San Juan Batista - IX
-12- (rail) 1884 Ramona
1889.05.19 - SW of Antioch - VIII [unused]
1890 1st Tournament of Roses (chariot races)
refridg. railroad cars ship produce east
5 I Drillers Vacaville 1890-1892.04.19 6.8
1890 *** time post #6 *** [2 yrs - #12 choice]
1892 oil boom starts (lasts until 1906)
1892.04.19 - Solano, Yolo, Winters, Vacaville - 6.8
-7- (rail) 1893 California Fruit Growers, aka Sunkist
Mt Lowe Railway above Pasadena (Thaddeus L)
1894 Electric Railway LA - Pasadena
6 J Hustlers (&) San Berdoo 1897-1907.09.19 6.3
1897 *** time post #7 *** [10 yrs - #11 choice]
Long Beach incopr'd
Free Harbor Fight won, US Army Corps of En
@ San Pedro, not Santa Monica
1899 US vs Pomeroy won water (LA river) from
ranchers
1899.07.22 - Cajon Pass - 6.6
1899.12.25 - San Jacinto - IX-X
1900 Auto Club of So Cal founded
1901.03.__ - Monterey - IX
1902 Big Red Cars spread into suburbs
1902.07.27 - near Los Alamos, Santa Barbara - IX
1902.07.30 - near Los Alamos, Santa Barbara (last shock?)
1902.07.31 - near Los Alamos, Santa Barbara (last shock?)
1902 *** time post minimum staffing
1906 fossils of La Brea dated back 40K years
1906.04.18 - SF - 8.3
1907 "The Count of Monte Cristo" finished in LA.
1907.09.19 - San Bernardino - 6.3
-8- (train) ********************
1909 1st gas station, Wilshire & La Brea 1890
1st Tournament of Roses (chariot races)
refridg. railroad cars ship produce east
- K (Anarchists) Los Angeles -1910.10.01 5
1910 *** time post #_ *** [1 month]
1910.01.10 Aviation Meet, LA ('till 1/20)
1910.10.01 - 1:07 AM - LA Times bombed, downtown LA
-3- (rail) 1911 Mexican Revolution, 1st migrant workers
1912 Beverly Hills Hotel opened
7 L Public Works El Centro 1913-1915.06.25 6.5
1913 *** time post #8 *** [2 yrs - #10 choice]
Owens Valley Aquaduct x5 water
LA annexed valley, Venice, Hollywood
Co Mus of Nat His opened
red light abatement act
1914 Port of LA and Panama Canal open
1915 Birth of a Nation
1915.06.22 - Imperial Valley, El Centro, Calexico (?) - 6.5
1915.06.25 - Imperial Valley (?)
-3- (train)
1916 1st football in Trn of Roses since '02 flop
- a (Rogues) Tejon Pass 1916-1918.10.22 VII
1914 *** time post #_ *** [2 yrs]
1916.10.22 - Tejon Pass - VII
-2- (auto)
8 M Visionaries Inglewood 1918-1920.06.21 6.9
1916 *** time post #9 *** [4 yrs - #9 choice]
1917 Mt Wilson Obs (100")
Polytechnic Inst (Cal Tech)
1918.04.21 - San Jacinto & Hemet - 6.8
1919 Goodyear Branch Plant in LA (cheap water
& electricity)
1920 BOOM! Donald Douglas starts 1st aircraft
factory; KNX 1st radio station; Met Water
Dist plans to get Colorado River water
1920.06.21 - Inglewood - 6.9
-5- (auto) ********************
1921 LA pumps 1/5 of world's oil; strikes @
Signal Hill, Huntington Beach, Santa Fe Spr
1922 Hollywood Bowl opened
50K people canned 60K tons fruit
- N (Babylonians) Santa Barbara 1923-1927.11.04 7.5
1923 *** time post #10 *** [4 yrs - #1 choice]
HOLLYWOODLAND sign; 11K acres subdivided
43K realtors (highest conc in USA)
1924 Owens Valley terrorists dynamite aquaduct
voters approve suburban highway plan
1925.06.29 - Santa Barbara - 6.3 (?)
1925.07.29 - Santa Barbara - 6.3 (?)
1927 Graumannn's Chinese opens; The Jazz Singer;
talkies made on sound stages (big studios)
1927.11.04 - W. of Pt. Arguella, Lompoc, Santa Barbara - 7.5
-6- (auto) ********************
1928 new City Hall 28 stories
"Steamboat Willie"
St Francis dam collapses (Mulholand built)
1929 UCLA to Westwood; 1st Oscar
1930 Olvera St Mall
LA has highest US bankrupcy rate
9 O Olympians (Norwalk) Colorado Riv. 1931-1934.12.31 7.1
1931 *** time post #11 *** [3 yrs - #8 choice]
1932 Oympics (only profitable 1 for host city)
1933.03.10 - 3 1/2 mi off Newport Beach - 6.3 (?) 7.5 (?)
1934 DC 2 & 3
1934.06.05 - near Parkfield in Cholame Valley - 6.0 [unused]
1934.06.08 - near Parkfield in Cholame Valley - 6.0 [unused]
1934.12.31 - Colorado River Delta - 7.1
-6- (prop plane) *********************
1936 bum blockade
- P (Scientists) Hollywood -1938.12.14 5
1936 *** time post #_ *** [2 yrs]
1938.12.06 - Hollywood Earthquake tests begin
1938.12.14 - Hollywood Earthquake tests end
-2- (prop plane)
10 Q Radio Dolls El Centro 1938-1940.05.18 7.1
1938 *** time post #12 *** [2 yrs - #7 choice]
all 3 networks broadcasting in Hollywood
1939 Union Station displaced Chinatown
1940 Arroyo Seco Parkway 1st freeway
1.5 million pop
1940.05.18 - NE of El Centro, Imperial Valley - 7.1
-7- (prop plane) *********************
1942 California Aquaduct & Boulder Dam (Hoover)
1943 Zoot Suit Riots: servicemen vs Pachucos
- R (Corruption) Long Beach -1943 5
1943 *** time post #_ *** [1 day]
1943.__.__ ship launched, Long Beach (?)
-4- (prop plane) *********************
11 S Fallen Angels
Barstow, Desert Hot Springs 1946-1948.12.04 6.5
1946 *** time post #13 *** [2 yrs - #21 choice]
LAX replaced Lockheed Field in the valley
Air Pollution Control Board
1947 HUAC investigating Hollywood
1947.04.10 - 25 mi. E of Barstow - 6.3
1948 RAND Corp to do R&D for USAF
1948.12.04 - mtns E of Desert Hot Springs - 6.5
-8- (freeway) *********************
1954 Hollywood Freeway
12 T Mousketeers Mexico 1954-1956.02.09 6.5
1954 *** time post #14 *** [2 yrs - #6 choice]
1955 Disneyland
1956.02.09 - in Mexico - 6.5
-10/2- (freeway) *********************
-- U (Knights of St. Mickey)
Norwalk -1958.02 5
1956 *** time post #_ *** [2 yrs]
1958 height limits removed; Century City,
Hollywood & Westwood sprout
1958.__.__ - Norwalk, flood
1958.02.__ - Norwalk, plane crash
-8- (freeway) 1961 Yorty mayor; Cal Arts; last big red car;
Bel Air fire
1962 Marina Del Rey from US Army Corp Eng
-- G (Mercenaries) Anchorage 1962-1964 _
13 V Beatlemania (&) Sylmar (&) 1964-1971.11.21 7.1
1964 *** time post #15 *** [7 yrs - #2 choice]
1965 Watts riots, 34 dead; Capitol records
buiding; softer Asian immigration laws
1966.03.04 - 5 mi. E of El Centro - 5.0 [unusable?]
1966.09.12 - N of Truckee - 6.6
1967 RFK shot in Ambassador Hotel
1968.04.09 - Borrego Mountain W of Salton Sea - 6.4
1969 Bradley lost to Yorty
92 killed in flood
1971 earthquake kills 64; Manson murders
Arco twin towers
1971.02.09 - "Sylmar" 6:00:40 AM - 6.4
1971.11.21 - near Santa Cruz Island - 7.1
-8- (jet) *********************
1973.02.21 - Pt Mugu - 6.0 [unused]
1973 Bradley beat Yorty
1974 Getty Museum largest art endowment in world
1975 LA Mall w/ Triforium
1975.08.01 - Palermo, near Oroville - 6.0 [unused]
1976.11.26 - 80 mi NW Eureka (offshore) - 6.8 [unused]
-- W (Dealers) (&) Mammoth Lake 1977-1980.05.28 6.1
1977 *** time post #16 *** [3 yrs - #3 choice]
1978 records beat film in dollar volume
(almost $2 billion/year); JPL's Voyager
1979 1/2 new @ Belmont High boat people
1979.10.15 - Imperial Valley - 6.4 (date?)
1980 bussing in LA schools
SAG strike
1980.05.25 - Covict Lk, Mammoth Lks, Yosemite - 6.0, 6.5
1980.05.28 - 10 mi E of Mammoth Lks - 6.1
-7- (jet) *********************
1981 1st shuttle flight
1983 Reagan announces Space Station, Star Wars
1984 Olympics
14 X Post-Moderns (&) Northridge 1985-1994.01.17 ? 6._
1985 *** time post #17 *** [9 yrs - #4 choice]
Pomo begins
1986 Challenger explodes
1987.__.__ - Whittier Narrows
1987.__.__ - Whittier Narrows aftershock
1988 Bush wins
1989 Berlin Wall falls
1989.__.__ - Loma Prieta (date?)
1992.__.__ - LA area
1993 Jurasic Park
1994.01.17?- Northridge
-?- (jet) *********************
1994.09.12 5:23:42 AM PDT magnitude 6.0 quake
located 37.5 km SSE of Carson City, Nevada
-- Y (New Agers) Kilhueah (?) 1990-1991.07.__ 0
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-- i (Maniacs) Palos Verdes -1999 ? 5
15 Y Neo-Colonials ____ ____-____.__.__ 6.9
20?? *** time post #18 *** [2 yrs - #5 choice]
20??.__.__ - ___ - ___
-?- *********************
2010 ___
16 Z Apocalyptics ____ ____-____.__.__ 7.9
2018 *** time post #19 *** [2 yrs - #20 choice]
2020.07.05 - La Crescenta (?) - 8.5
-0- (maglev train)
2020.07.15 - La Crescenta (?) - 7.9
-?- *********************
-- W (Octet) ____ ____-____.__.__ 10.3
30?? *** time post #__ *** []
30??.__.__ - ___ - ___
-?- *********************