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Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper [16] and Daily Variety begin publication. 1934 – Los Angeles Science Fiction Society formed. [12] 1935 – Griffith Park Planetarium dedicated. [1] 1936 Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles established. Crossroads of the World shopping mall built. 1937 Los Angeles purchases Mines Field for a municipal ...
The history of Los Angeles began in 1781 when 44 settlers from central New Spain (modern Mexico) established a permanent settlement in what is now Downtown Los Angeles, as instructed by Spanish Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, and authorized by Viceroy Antonio María de Bucareli.
A promotional poster for the Los Angeles 1910 International Air Meet. The Los Angeles International Air Meet (January 10 to January 20, 1910) was among the earliest air shows in the world and the first major air show in the United States. [77] It was held in Los Angeles County at Dominguez Field in present-day Compton. [17]
In 1983, the U.S. Office of Air Force History attributed the event to a case of "war nerves" triggered by a lost weather balloon and exacerbated by stray flares and shell bursts from adjoining batteries. As an example of incompetence, the incident was derisively referred to as the "Battle of Los Angeles" or the "Great Los Angeles Air Raid". [5]
Events in Los Angeles (10 C, 71 P) G. ... Pages in category "History of Los Angeles" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 408 total.
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[1] [2] The book's purpose is not to present a comprehensive history of 1960s Los Angeles but to dispel the mythology surrounding this era and replace it with the neglected history of the populist social and cultural movements that shifted power away from an entrenched elite and opened up opportunities for radical egalitarian change. [3]