Events by Decade Archives - Page 59 of 101 -

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

APRIL 29, 1992: After four police officers who were caught on tape beating Rodney King were acquitted in Los Angeles, protests erupted in San Francisco, escalating to rioting and a subsequent curfew.

REPOST Rioting is not new to San Francisco. Growing up, my mother Anne heard about labor strikes that became violent[1]. She was alive when people…

APRIL 28, 1827: Domingo Marcucci was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela. A San Francisco ship builder, he was buried at the City’s Columbarium.

Domingo Marcucci (1827-1905) immigrated from Venezuela to Philadelphia in the 1840s to study shipbuilding. Days after his arrival in San Francisco in 1849 at the…