Events by Decade Archives - Page 38 of 101 -

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

JUNE 18, 1981: University of California San Francisco’s Dr. Paul Volberding saw his first patient with Kaposi’s Sarcoma, a rare cancer that just 13 days before had been linked to what would become known as AIDS.

At the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic, when people were frantically scrambling about in preparation for a lock-down, I happened to be standing behind two…

JUNE 17, 1975: Hirofumi Yoshimura was born in Japan. He became mayor of San Francisco’s sister-city Osaka and angrily broke off the relationship between the two cities after the unveiling of San Francisco’s Comfort Women memorial.

In 2013 the Comfort Women Justice Coalition[1], along with eleven other human rights groups, raised money for a San Francisco memorial to the 200,000 plus…