Portal talk:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/Archive

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New DYK's
should be proposed on the Portal talk:San Francisco Bay Area page, not here.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:25, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Newly discovered dyk's
This one was also chosen by me (for april: great minds think alike):

I have added them. the twomey cellars blurb replaced the one i used, as it was peer reviewed. i placed it on the April dyk, where it originally appeared at the sfba portal, instead of its original march dyk on front page.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:14, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

More DYK's found
2010 searched:
 * all added*


 * these will all be added to the dyk pages.

2009 searched:
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febadded mar added

apr added

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Julyadded august added

september added

october added

nov-dec none

2008 searched
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Mar added

Apr aded may added

june added

july added

august - oct added

Nov - dec added

2007 searched
in reverse:ADDED dec nov oct
 * ...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  used Arthur Schopenhauer's "patriotic insanity" defense when on trial for the murder of Japan lobbyist Durham Stevens, in San Francisco in 1908? ADDED

sept - july ADDED august july above added
 * ...that Chinatown, San Francisco's waiter Edsel Ford Fong is fondly remembered for calling patrons "retarded" and "fat", slamming food on tables, groping female patrons, telling patrons to "sit down and shut up" and clearing tables before diners were finished?
 * ...that two people died outside of San Francisco's Pier 26 during the 1934 Bloody Thursday Riots?
 * ...that the stray dogs Bummer and Lazarus (pictured) were so popular with the people of San Francisco in the 1860s that they were given special exemption from the leash laws?

june 2007 added none may above added
 * ...that Serranus Clinton Hastings served as chief justice of both the Iowa and California Supreme Courts?
 * ...that the nudie cutie The Adventures of Lucky Pierre was the first sexploitation movie to be filmed in color?
 * ...that The Geysers, a geothermal power field located north of San Francisco, California, (power plant pictured) is the largest geothermal development in the world?
 * ...that in 1927, Oregon congressman Maurice E. Crumpacker drowned in San Francisco Bay after claiming he had been poisoned?
 * ...that Californian politician Lou Papan received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1996?

to be added
april all added
 * ...that the San Francisco Armory (pictured), a National Guard stronghold during the "Bloody Thursday" events of 1934, is now used as a BDSM porn studio?


 * ...that although a response to the 1885 Endicott Board recommendations for the coastal defense of San Francisco, the batteries at Fort Miley were not completed until 1902?
 * ...that Camillo Ynitia was the only Native American on the northern frontier of Alta California to secure a large land grant for his tribe?
 * ...that in five years of operation during World War II, more than 747 vessels were built in the Richmond Shipyards in Richmond, California&mdash;a feat not equaled anywhere else in the world, before or since?
 * ...that the California Wine Country (pictured) is known for its cuisine, recreation and history as much as viticulture?
 * ...that the Alameda Works Shipyard in Alameda, California, was one of the largest and best equipped shipyards in the United States?
 * ...that the pyramid scheme Holiday Magic was investigated by the State of California, the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission and shut down for fraud?

March all added
 * ...that the Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California, an area of just one square block, contains buildings of six different architectural styles?
 * ...that the interior and exterior of the Jose Maria Alviso Adobe (pictured) in Milpitas, California have not significantly changed in 150 years?
 * ...that Fountaingrove Lake (pictured) in Santa Rosa, California, is a habitat for the threatened Western pond turtle, and is surrounded by a championship golf course?
 * ...that Room 307, Gilman Hall on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where the element plutonium was discovered, is a United States National Historic Landmark?


 * ...that the Piner Creek watershed is home to a historic round barn (pictured), one of the early architectural features of Sonoma County, California?
 * ...that the Benicia Arsenal in Benicia, California, was home to the short-lived U.S. Camel Corps?

February 2007 all added
 * ...that the Port of Redwood City is the only deep-water port in southern San Francisco Bay?
 * ...that the San Bruno Creek Trail provides a key link in the San Francisco Bay perimeter trail, but a two-mile detour inland is required?
 * ...that the Krazy Kat cartoons printed in the San Francisco Examiner prompted a serious physical assault on Agnes Newton Keith?
 * ...that the Seal Slough tidal channel in California hosts a thriving marshland habitat despite encroachment by a sewage treatment plant and two schools?

January added
 * ...that the Carbonera Creek watershed in California has diverse plant communities including a rare assemblage known as Maritime Coast Range Ponderosa Pine forests?
 * ...that the Suisun Shrew is a rare mammal species that survives only in a narrow marshland at the northern extremity of San Francisco Bay?

2006 searched
jan- may added
 * ...that Chuck Muncie was a star running back for The University of California, Berkeley during the 1970s, where he broke six school rushing records that stand to this day?
 * ...that prehistoric inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay Area fished the bat ray in large numbers, while more recently it is mostly taken by oyster growers who mistakenly believe it feeds on their oysters?

mar
 * ...that the endangered subspecies California Clapper Rail, a chicken-sized bird that rarely flies, has chicks that can swim when they are just two hours old?

june- added
 * ...that Hickman's potentilla (pictured) is a rare plant discovered by Alice Eastwood, who climbed six floors through a burning building in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake to save her specimens?
 * ...that Humphrey the whale may be the most publicized Humpback whale in history, having twice wandered off his migration course into San Francisco Bay?


 * ...that Sonoma Creek (pictured), a California-designated critical coastal watershed, drains the acclaimed Sonoma Valley Wine Country, and provides a home to many endangered species?

oct hood mtn

Nov all added


 * ...that Acanthomintha duttonii is an endangered wildflower that is found only in a six mile long strip on the San Francisco Peninsula?
 * ...that artists of the Mission School, a San Francisco-based contemporary art movement, often make artworks from materials such as house paint, spray paint, correction fluid, ballpoint pens, and scrapboard?


 * ...that Santa Rosa Creek (pictured) was the scene of an 1827 baptism of a Pomo maiden, which event led to the naming of the creek and also the city of Santa Rosa, California?


 * ...that Sonoma Coast State Beach (pictured) is one of California's longest beaches and has rocks that have evidence of rubbing by mammoths 40,000 years ago?


 * ...that Annadel State Park (pictured) is considered by some biologists to have some of the best preserved northern oak woodlands in western North America?

dec all added
 * ...that Isaias W. Hellman (pictured), a co-founder of the University of Southern California, ran Wells Fargo Bank out of his house after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake leveled its headquarters?


 * ...that Graham Creek in California was a seasonal hunting and gathering ground for prehistoric Pomo and Wappo people?


 * ...that the Brush Creek confluence with Santa Rosa Creek was the site of a Pomo village, the antecedent of modern Santa Rosa, California?

2005 searched
all added

2011 searched
jan-added (oddly)
 * ... that Joe Heitz of California wine producer Heitz Wine Cellars‎ is considered the first in the U.S. to champion single vineyard designated wine?
 * ... that a critic said that landscapes by Rinaldo Cuneo (self-portrait pictured) "are the very soul and essence of California materialized in line and color"?

feb
 * ... that California '49er Stephen William Shaw helped discover Humboldt Bay, painted over 200 portraits of San Francisco notables, and started growing grapes in Sonoma County?

mar
 * ... that Sonoma wine producer Hanzell Vineyards was one of the first California wineries to produce barrel-aged Chardonnay?
 * ... that California attorney Charles Stetson Wheeler built a temple to fishing at his hunting lodge on McCloud River?
 * ... that Ralph Stackpole's 81 ft statue Pacifica was at one time planned for permanent construction on an island in San Francisco Bay?

apr
 * ... that San Francisco fireboat Phoenix (pictured) pumped some 5.5 million gallons (20.8 ML) of seawater to help fight fires after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake?
 * ... that former California State Assemblyman George W. Milias, a graduate of both San Jose State and Stanford, was President of the California Republican Assembly and state Republican Party Chairman?

above added

may
 * ... that seismologist Fusakichi Omori (pictured) of the Imperial University of Tokyo, who mapped the effects of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, later designed and donated the equipment to found the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory?

june
 * ... that Flo Allen was "San Francisco's best loved artists' model" and modeled for 30 years?
 * ... that in San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment did not protect the use of the word "Olympics", over the objections of the U.S. Olympic Committee?
 * ... that, after the 1906 Earthquake, Sid Grauman (pictured, left), owner of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, showed movies in a tent with a sign that read "Nothing to fall on you but canvas if there is another quake"?
 * ... that after being named the UCLA Bruins MVP in 2006 and 2007, San Francisco Giants rookie Brandon Crawford hit a grand slam in his first Major League Baseball game?
 * ... that the Sausalito Record Plant served for a time as the residence for Rick James who slept in a conference room built with a waterbed floor?
 * ... that University of California, Berkeley math professor Ian Agol has a twin brother who is a University of Washington astronomy professor?

above added

July

 * ... that Jane Baker, a former cooking show host and community organizer, became the first female Mayor of San Mateo, California?

August
 * ... that Indonesian sociologist Mely G. Tan participated in student protests at the University of California, Berkeley until warned that she could be deported?
 * ... that the houseboat Vallejo, made an icon of Bay Area culture by artist Jean Varda and philosopher Alan Watts in the 1960s, originally served as a passenger ferry in Portland, Oregon in the 1870s?

above added

Sept
 * ... that after moving into the Bethesda Home for Boys at age seven, current San Francisco 49er Demarcus Dobbs moved in with his high school football coach's family in 2005?

Oct Nov
 * ... that, in 1980, U.S. presidential candidate John Anderson wrote in the San Francisco Sentinel that, if elected, he would end federal government discrimination based on sexual orientation?
 * ... that future California Court of Appeal Justice Christopher Cottle attended UC Berkeley for one day before transferring to Stanford, where he was a pre-medical student and captain of the football team?

Dec above all added
 * ... that the opening of San Francisco's Tiffany Building included a roast pig and a lion dance for good luck?

2012 searched
Jan
 * all added
 * ... that the Healdsburg Memorial Bridge in Healdsburg, California, was the first steel bridge across the Russian River?
 * ... that Save The Bay helped stop San Bruno Mountain from being destroyed to create landfill along 27 mi of San Francisco Bay?
 * ... that Elias Abraham Rosenberg, a peddler from San Francisco, became an adviser to King Kalākaua of Hawaii due to his purported ability to predict the future?

feb
 * ... that Bob Wasserman served as police chief, city councilman, and mayor of the city of Fremont, California?

Mar
 * ... that Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, who later wrote The Art of Beowulf, was one of a group of University of California professors who at first refused on principle to sign the loyalty oath in 1949?

Apr
 * ... that California governor Henry Gage publicly denied there was a San Francisco plague of 1900–1904?
 * ... that the City of Rio de Janeiro is located in San Francisco Bay?
 * ... that a Roman Catholic priest got five Super Bowl rings with the 49ers?

May
 * ... that protesters have occupied and started to farm a tract of land owned by the University of California, Berkeley?
 * ... that Grafton Tyler Brown was the first African American artist to document California and the Pacific Northwest?

june no

July
 * ... that the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum includes Miwok items?

august
 * ... that botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon authored the legislation to make the golden poppy (pictured) the state flower of California?

sept
 * ... that Terry Francois was the first African American member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?
 * ... that two men and a dog died during the 1909 Portola Road Race in Oakland, California?

Oct
 * ... that the works of Henry W. Cleaveland, a founding member of the American Institute of Architects, include the original Palace Hotel, San Francisco?


 * ... that Downtown College Prep in San Jose was the first charter school in Santa Clara County, California?

Nov none

Dec
 * ... that Walt Downing, the seventh All-American center for Michigan, won a Super Bowl with the 1981 San Francisco 49ers?
 * ... that San Francisco police supervised the controversial North American premiere of Al-Nakba at the Castro Theater?

2013 searched
jan added
 * ... that The Bay Lights art installation uses 25,000 white LED lights, programmed to create a series of abstract patterns that ascend and descend the cables on the San Francisco Bay Bridge?

feb, none

March added


 * ... that Sara Bard Field (pictured) traveled by automobile from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. in 1915 to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures for women's suffrage to Woodrow Wilson?
 * ... that Zelma Long is considered to be one of the female pioneers of wine production in the U.S. state of California?
 * ... that Silver Oak Cellars has been cited as one of a dozen California wineries which "have reached cult status" for its Cabernet Sauvignon production?
 * ... that Berkeley, California, rapper Lil B's Rain in England is an ambient hip hop album without any beats or profanity?

april added
 * ... that when Charles O'Rear took a photograph of a green, lush hillside near Napa Valley, he did not expect it to be "the most viewed image of the world"?
 * ... that Berkeley law dean Frank C. Newman, whose work on international human rights law was prompted by a sabbatical year in Geneva, Switzerland, was appointed to the Supreme Court of California in 1977?

may added
 * ... that the graffiti that has been removed from San Francisco's Vaillancourt Fountain includes slogans painted on it by its sculptor?
 * ... that Douce noir, which is known as Charbono in California and Bonarda in Argentina, has been called both a "cult wine" and "the Rodney Dangerfield of wine"?
 * ... that When the Game Stands Tall is an upcoming film about the De La Salle High School 151-game high school football winning streak?

June added
 * ... that in August 1975, almost the entire San Francisco Police Department staged a strike as the city refused a pay increase for them?
 * ... that Gavin Arthur, grandson of United States President Chester A. Arthur, worked as an astrologer and sexologist in San Francisco in the 1960s?

July added


 * ... that John W. Dwinelle (pictured) helped establish the University of California, the right of black children to attend public school, and San Francisco's claim to much of the land within its borders?

august


 * ... that critics complained that a bronze statue (pictured) of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal standing in San Francisco's Civic Center more closely resembled the Sumerian king Gilgamesh?
 * ... that the twenty-dollar Liberty Head double eagle (pictured) was minted after the California gold rush as the "most efficient way to coin a given quantity of gold bullion"?

sept added
 * ... that the Blue Wing Inn, started as a one-room hotel in Sonoma, California, in 1836, was also a saloon, a gambling hall, a stagecoach depot, a grocery store, a winery, a museum, and a retail center?
 * ... that Mike McCormick was the first San Francisco Giants pitcher to win the Cy Young Award?

oct added
 * ... that First Lady of California, Anne Gust has served as both an Executive Vice-President for Gap Inc. and on the board of directors for Jack in the Box?

Nov no

dec no

2014 searched
Jan
 * ... that the Mokelumne Aqueduct, originally built in 1929, is the sole water supply system for over one million people in the San Francisco Bay Area?
 * ... that the Asian clam is causing trouble in San Francisco Bay?

feb
 * ... that the Black Sea jellyfish has become established in the estuaries of the Petaluma and Napa Rivers flowing into San Francisco Bay?

march
 * ... that San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim plays bass guitar, and her favorite song is by the Wu-Tang Clan?

apr no

may

already there for june!


 * ... that in 1888, in San Francisco Bay, RMS Oceanic (1870) rammed SS City of Chester and cut through her "as though she was a cheese" (accident pictured)?

June no

july no

august

Brand new discoveries, not yet added
September|2012|entry=... that poet Ishmael Reed learned to play jazz piano at the Jazzschool beginning when he was 60?

December|2007|entry=...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?
 * Now addedMercurywoodrose (talk) 20:33, 1 November 2014 (UTC)