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Los Angeles Theatre Center opens. [76] Sister city relationship established with Yerevan, Armenia. [55] 2008 Anime Expo first arrives at the Los Angeles Convention Center; First DineLA Restaurant Week was held [77] 2009 – Los Angeles Times' Mapping L.A. project begins. Metro Sliver Line opens.
The Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad was the first railroad in Los Angeles, photo ca.1880. This put them in conflict with Collis P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific Company and one of California's "Big Four" investors in the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific.
San Ysidro McDonald's massacre kills 23 people, which became the deadliest mass shooting to have occurred in California. San Diego Clippers relocate to Los Angeles becoming the Los Angeles Clippers. 1985 Westfield Horton Plaza is open for business. Qualcomm is founded in San Diego. [44] Sister city relationship established with Yantai, China ...
California's labor movements began in San Francisco, the only large city in California for decades and once the center of trade-unionism west of the Rockies. Los Angeles remained an open-shop stronghold for half a century until unions from the north collaborated to make California a union state.
Timeline of Sacramento, California; Timeline of San Bernardino, California history; Timeline of San Diego; Timeline of San Francisco; Timeline of San Jose, California; Timeline of Santa Ana, California
San Diego officially became part of the U.S. in 1848, and the town was named the seat of San Diego County when California was granted statehood in 1850. It remained a very small town for several decades, but grew rapidly after 1880 due to development and the establishment of multiple military facilities.
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Against 30,000 trade union members in 1933–34, Los Angeles by the late thirties had 200,000, even against a severe 1938 anti-picketing ordinance. But Los Angeles became unionized in the mass production industries of aircraft, auto, rubber, and oil, and at the yards of San Pedro. Later, drives for unionization spread through musicians ...