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Cannabis performance art, 2016, San Francisco Women's March, 2018 San Francisco interim Mayor Mark Farrell London Breed Ron Dellums. January. Starting January 1, with the Adult Use of Marijuana Act going into effect statewide, Harborside Health Center, The Berkeley Patients Group, and many other Marijuana dispensaries in the Bay Area begin retail sales of Marijuana to the general public ...
In 1804, The Bay Area is part of the newly created New Spain state of Alta California; The Russian-American Company establishes Fortress Ross (Крѣпость Россъ, tr. Krepostʹ Ross) (pictured) in 1812, in what is now Sonoma County; In 1821, New Spain cedes Alta California, including the Bay Area, to the newly created Mexican Empire
During this time, the Bay Area was the center of the LGBT rights movement: in 2004, San Francisco began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a first in the United States, [59] and four years later a majority of voters in the Bay Area rejected California Proposition 8, which sought to constitutionally restrict marriage to opposite-sex ...
Politics in the San Francisco Bay Area is widely regarded as one of the most liberal in the country. According to the California Secretary of State, the Democratic Party holds a voter registration advantage in every congressional district, State Senate district, State Assembly district, State Board of Equalization district, County Board of Supervisors district, all nine counties, and all of ...
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Pages in category "History of the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 176 pages are in this category, out of 176 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The exact year is lost to history: The 1906 earthquake in San Francisco set off a fire that burned up reams of naturalization records — and also allowed many people to add extra “relatives ...
The San Francisco Bay Area continued to be a leading academic center in the 1970s, centered around the major universities of Stanford University and Berkeley. In May 1972, for instance, the first demonstration of acupuncture in San Francisco was held at Stanford which attracted some 1,400 physicians. [29]