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2014


 * March
 * The Mission Bay fire (pictured) breaks out in San Francisco
 * Democratic California State Senator Leland Yee is arrested by the FBI on charges related to public corruption and gun trafficking
 * June
 * A new Kaiser Permanente Medical Center opens in San Leandro
 * Barbara Halliday is elected mayor of Hayward
 * San Francisco political consultant Ryan Chamberlain is apprehended by the FBI and the San Francisco Police Department after explosive materials are allegedly discovered in his apartment
 * Amelia Rose Earhart (pictured) departs from Oakland on June 26, and lands back in Oakland on July 1, successfully recreating her namesake Amelia Earhart's unsuccessful 1937 circumnavigation of the Earth
 * The San Jose Repertory Theatre ceases operations and files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
 * July
 * Levi's Stadium (pictured) opens in Santa Clara as the new home of the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League
 * August
 * Actor and comedian Robin Williams (pictured) dies from an apparent suicide at his home outside Tiburon
 * Maryam Mirzakhani of Stanford University becomes the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal in mathematics
 * The East Bay Municipal Utility District and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission impose mandatory water rationing measures, as a consequence of the ongoing drought in California
 * Paul McCartney plays a concert at Candlestick Park, the last event to be held at the venue, 50 years after The Beatles performed their last concert there
 * Two owners and two staff of the now defunct Rancho Feeding Corporation in Petaluma are indicted on federal charges of violating the 1906 Federal Meat Inspection Act
 * A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes in Napa County (damage pictured), with an epicenter 3.7 mi northwest of the city of American Canyon, the largest earthquake to hit the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, sending at least 172 people to the hospital
 * September
 * The Berkeley city council passes an ordinance that mandates cannabis dispensaries provide free medical cannabis to some low-income patients
 * Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook (pictured, below) presents the Apple Watch (pictured), the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus at the Flint Performing Arts Center in Cupertino
 * Stanford University social psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt is awarded a Macarthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship
 * Larry Ellison (pictured) steps down as CEO of Oracle Corporation, to become chief technical officer, and executive chairman of the board of directors
 * October
 * Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman announces plans for the company to split in two, forming Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP, Inc.
 * Stanford University professor William E. Moerner (pictured), Eric Betzig and Stefan Hell are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their use of fluorescence in microscopy
 * Livermore golf coach Andrew Nisbet is sentenced to 27 years in prison on charges of molesting three of his juvenile students, and then plotting to kill them while being held in jail
 * The Daughters of Charity Health System approves the sale of Daly City's Seton Medical Center and San Jose's O'Connor Hospital to Prime Healthcare Services
 * The San Francisco Bay Guardian free weekly alternative newspaper ceases publication after 48 years (logo pictured)
 * The San Francisco Giants defeat the Kansas City Royals to win the World Series, their third championship in five seasons
 * Ross William Ulbricht is arrested in San Francisco, charged with running the Silk Road dark web online illicit marketplace
 * Apple, Inc. CEO Tim Cook (pictured) states in an editorial that he is "proud to be gay", becoming the first openly gay leader of a major U.S. company
 * University of California, Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks announces plans for a Berkeley Global Campus at Richmond Bay, to develop existing UC campuses in Richmond
 * Susan Xiao-Ping Su, founder and former president of the defunct Pleasanton-based Tri-Valley University, is sentenced to 16 years in prison for visa and mail fraud
 * November
 * Libby Schaaf (pictured) is elected mayor of Oakland, defeating incumbent mayor Jean Quan
 * Measure D, a sugary drink tax, is approved by Berkeley voters, the first such tax in the United States
 * Mike Honda is elected to California's 17th congressional district, defeating Ro Khanna
 * David Chiu is elected to California's 17th State Assembly district, defeating David Campos
 * Sam Liccardo is elected mayor of San Jose, defeating Dave Cortese
 * A new, unnamed species (pictured) in the coral genus Leptogorgia is discovered off the coast of Sonoma County, near the Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries
 * Up to 18,000 nurses from at least 21 Kaiser Permanente hospitals and 35 clinics around the Bay Area go on strike, citing issues with patient care standards and Ebola safeguards
 * The 27 story 535 Mission Street office skyscraper opens in the South of Market district of San Francisco
 * Marian Brown of the San Francisco Twins, dies, her sister Vivian having died in January 2013 (sisters pictured)
 * The BART to Oakland International Airport automated guideway transit system begins operating between the Bay Area Rapid Transit Oakland Coliseum Station and Oakland International Airport
 * The Watershed Alliance of Marin reports that no coho salmon had returned to Redwood Creek in 2014, prompting concerns of likely local extinction of the species.
 * The remains of the SS City of Rio de Janeiro (pictured), which shipwrecked in 1901, are found off the shores of San Francisco at the Golden Gate
 * December
 * Protesters of the grand jury decision in the death of New Yorker Eric Garner take to the streets in Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco
 * A large storm (video shown) leaves 150,000 households without power across the Bay Area
 * San Jose demolishes the "Jungle", the nation's largest homeless person encampment
 * Google unveils a fully functioning prototype of the Google driverless car, with plans to test it on Bay Area roads beginning in 2015