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1510- California is first used in a romance novel published in Spain 1510 and written by Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo, the translator of the Amadis de Gaul, and called Las Sergas de Esplandián, or "Adventures of Esplandian". 1533- Two ships make their way northward from Tehuantepec and land at the very tip of Baja California at La Paz Harbor. Loca...
1602- Sebastibn VizcaNno, another Spaniard, explored the coast and Monterey Bay 1665- Jose de Galvez arrives in Mexico as Visitor General of New Spain. Periodically insane - thinks he is God, Montezuma, or the King of Sweden - he lauches an ambitious program of colonizing Alta California, implemented by his emissary, Padre Junipero Serra. 1669- 1. ...
1769- 1. The entrance to San Francisco Bay, La Boca del Puerto (The mouth of the Port) is discovered on November 1 by Sergeant Jose Ortega. 2. San Diego De Alcala, the first of 21 missions established by Franciscan padres under the leadership of Father Junipero Serra, was founded. The missions extend along a 650-mile trail, the El Camino Real, from...
Late 1800's- The trans-continental railroad system was established with funding from the "Big Four," a group of men whose economic influence helped shape California's industrial industry--Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington, and Leland Stanford. The system included tracks throughout California's Sierra Nevada region as well as conne...
1900- Oil discovered along the Kern River. 1901- 1. McKinley assassinated 2. Roosevelt succeeds McKinley 3. Picasso's Blue Period 4. J.P. Morgan organizes US Steel Corporation 1902- Trans-Pacific telephone cable connects Canada and Australia. 1903- The Commonwealth Club of California was founded in 1903 by San Francisco Chronicle editorial writer E...
2004 - Private California company launches SpaceShipOne, the first private manned mission to space 2002 - March 24 Halle Berry becomes first African American woman to win Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in 2001′s Monster's Ball; Denzel Washington wins the Best Actor award for his work in Training Day, marking the first time African Amer...
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History of California (1900–present) After 1900, California continued to grow rapidly and soon became an agricultural and industrial power. The economy was widely based on specialty agriculture, oil, tourism, shipping, film, and after 1940 advanced technology such as aerospace and electronics industries – along with a significant military presence.
JPL was transferred to NASA in December 1958, becoming the agency's primary planetary spacecraft center. In 1940, 65% of aircraft manufacturers were located along or near the East or West Coasts of the United States. California alone had 44 percent of all aircraft manufacturing.
Home » Newsworthy » Historical Decades. The 1940s were defined by World War II, the Holocaust, atomic bombs, and the beginning of the Cold War. Women were needed in the workforce to replace men who went to war, and wartime production pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression.
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