Events by Decade Archives - Page 10 of 101 -

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

DECEMBER 7, 1941: Japan attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Unlike World War I, San Francisco was greatly impacted by World War II.

As is the case with any significant news, my mother Anne Filmer Gasparich Wright, who was five years old at the time, remembers exactly where…

DECEMBER 4, 1774: The Franciscan monk Frances Palou planted a cross on what would become San Francisco’s Presidio. Two years later he established Mission Dolores, the nickname given Mission San Francisco de Asis.

Padre Francisco Palou (1723-1789) was a companion of Father Junipera Serra, who established 21 Missions up the California coast from San Diego to San Francisco…