Events by Decade Archives - Page 74 of 101 -

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

FEBRUARY 8, 1960: The Angelo Petri, the world’s largest wine tanker, sank just outside San Francisco’s Golden Gate. There have been almost 400 shipwrecks in the area.

San Francisco’s huge sand bar, rocky shores, narrow entrance, swift currents, high winds and submerged rocks can make entering the San Francisco Bay a treacherous…

FEBRUARY 5, 2001: Engineering students from the University of British Columbia suspended a VW Beetle under the Golden Gate Bridge.

Nearly 10 million people visit the Golden Gate Bridge[1] each year. And wherever there is such a widely popular and recognized landmark, any number of people…