Events by Decade Archives - Page 65 of 101 -

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

MARCH 22, 1982: An anti-nuclear protest took place in San Francisco’s Financial District, forcing many businesses to shutter for the day.

In the 1970s an anti-nuclear movement developed in California after President Richard Nixon called for the construction of 1000 nuclear power plants across the nation…

MARCH 19, 1851: The San Francisco Foundling Asylum opened. Later renamed the San Francisco Protestant Orphan Asylum, this institution would exist in the City under various names for almost 100 years.

The San Francisco Foundling Asylum Society was founded in 1851 by Reverend Albert Williams in order to help five siblings, aged 3-12, who had been…