Events by Decade Archives - Page 100 of 101 -

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

AUGUST 10, 1893: Chinese immigrants were deported from San Francisco after the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, banning all Chinese immigration into the United States, was extended by Congress.

In 1849, the first Chinese immigrants arrived in the United States. They obtained jobs in the mining camps, and later found work on the transcontinental…

AUGUST 7, 2010: The San Francisco TransBay Terminal was closed, paving the way for a new SalesForce Transit Center that includes the SalesForce Tower.

Designed by architect Timothy Pflueger[1], the San Francisco TransBay Terminal opened at First and Mission on January 14, 1939. It was the train hub for…