Wikipedia:POTD column/May 13, 2006



San Francisco International Airport (IATA: SFO) opened on May 7, 1927 on 150 acres (607,000 m&sup2;) of cow pasture leased from prominent local landowner Ogden L. Mills, and was named Mills Field Municipal Airport. During the economic boom of the 1990s and the dot com boom, SFO became the 6th busiest international airport in the world. However, since the boom times ended, it has fallen back out of the top twenty.

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