Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/15


 * ... that The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco, a 1959 album by jazz band The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, reached the bestseller charts with 50,000 copies sold by May 1960?
 * ... that as Burton Abbott was being executed in California's gas chamber in 1957, the governor was contacting the warden to stay the execution?
 * ... that the book This Is Not The Life I Ordered, co-authored by former California State Senator Jackie Speier, has twice reached the San Francisco Chronicle best seller list?
 * ... that former mayor of San Jose, California Ernie Renzel was called the "Father of San Jose International Airport" for his work in establishing the city's first airport?
 * ... that Korean independence activist Jang In-hwan (pictured) used Arthur Schopenhauer's "patriotic insanity" defense when on trial for the murder of Japan lobbyist Durham Stevens, in San Francisco in 1908?

October - December 2007