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JULY 27, 1831: Ludwig Immanuel Nobel was born in Stockholm. It is six degrees of separation that ultimately link Nobel to San Francisco’s Great Powder Company, the first company in the United States to manufacture dynamite.

Ludwig Nobel lived his life in Sweden. When he died on April 12, 1988 in France, newspapers around the globe mistakenly identified him as Alfred…

JULY 23, 1877: At the height of the Long Depression, a labor rally held in a sand lot adjacent to San Francisco’s City Hall ultimately led to three nights of riots specifically targeting Chinese businesses.

From 1873-1880, a severe economic crisis swept across the United States. Known today as the Long Depression, a large number of East Coast workers headed…