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2 hours ago · Rock. Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. [3] It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from ...
- 1950s and 1960s, US and UK
- Electric guitar, bass guitar, drums
1 day ago · The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on California's Central Coast on October 17 at 5:04 p.m. local time. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, approximately 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
- 63 killed, 3,757 injured
- $5.6–6 billion (equivalent to $13.2–14.2 billion today)
4 hours ago · The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday announced plans to host an anonymous gun buyback event in South San Francisco next month. The event is planned from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 4 at ...
1 day ago · San Francisco, California, U.S. The Trips Festival on 21–23 January 1966 was the most attended and advertised of the early Acid Tests events, which were started in late 1965. [36] Ten thousand people attended this sold-out event, with a thousand more turned away each night. [37]
2 hours ago · University of California, Santa Cruz. Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author; she is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a founding member of the Committees of ...
1 day ago · Jeff Adachi (1959–2019), San Francisco Public Defender. Jewett W. Adams (1835–1920), fourth Governor of Nevada; resident of San Francisco [441] Art Agnos (born 1938), 38th Mayor of San Francisco. Tom Ammiano (born 1941), California State Assemblyman, San Francisco Supervisor, Mayoral candidate and LGBT rights activist.
2 hours ago · San Francisco parking control officers may soon be cracking down on drivers who are a little too lax in how they park. Christie Smith reports. Drivers will need to make sure they're taking a ...
