Events by Decade Archives - Page 91 of 101 -

As posts are published, they will be loaded into the appropriate decade.

OCTOBER 16, 1970: President Richard Nixon signed a bill establishing San Francisco’s Fort Point as a National Historic Site.

In 1769 Spain discovered and settled in San Francisco, naming the area Yerba Buena. In 1794 the Spanish built the Castillo de San Joaquin to…

OCTOBER 14, 1863: Winifred Sweet was born in Chilton, Wisconsin. She is remembered under the pen-name Annie Laurie as being a well-respected journalist for the San Francisco Examiner.

Winifred Sweet was born in 1863 to a Civil War general. She grew up on a farm on the outskirts of Chicago, attending private schools…