In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors becoming the first openly gay man in the United States elected to public office.

* Harvey Milk Day ( California )

* 1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.

* 1978 – In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.

One example is the outing of Oliver Sipple ( who saved the life of U. S. President Gerald Ford during an assassination attempt ) by gay activists, most prominently Harvey Milk.

* 1946 – Dan White, American politician, assassin of George Moscone and Harvey Milk ( d. 1985 )

** San Francisco elects City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U. S.

* November 27 – In San Francisco, California, Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White.

Harvey Milk

** Harvey Milk, American gay rights activist ( b. 1930 )

** Dan White receives a light sentence for killing San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, gay men in the city riot.

** Harvey Milk, American politician and civil rights activist ( d. 1978 )

Harvey Milk, here with his sister-in-law in front of Castro Camera in 1973, had been changed by his experience with the counterculture of the 1960s.

By 1973, Harvey Milk, who would become the most famous resident of the neighborhood, opened a camera store, Castro Camera, and began political involvement as a gay activist, further contributing to the notion of the Castro as a gay destination.

The F Market heritage streetcar line turnaround at Market and 17th-streets at the Castro Street Station, a Muni Metro subway station, attracts many tourists which was renamed Harvey Milk Plaza in honor of its most famous resident.

The idea for the NAMES Project Memorial Quilt was conceived in 1985 by AIDS activist Cleve Jones during the candlelight march, in remembrance of the 1978 assassinations of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.

In 1999 he received an honorary degree from the Harvey Milk School for his support.

Woodson Elementary, Natalie Jones, was forbidden from delivering a class presentation on assassinated gay San Francisco city councillor Harvey Milk because her principal, and later the school district, declared it a " sensitive " issue that not all parents might want their children to learn about.

The term arose from Herb Caen's description of the trial of Dan White, who was convicted in the fatal shootings of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk.

Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo playing in Battery Park ( New York ) | Battery Park, New York City, July 4, 2005Yo La Tengo collaborated with Yoko Ono on the 2003 charity album Wig in a Box: Songs from and Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch in support of the Harvey Milk High School.

I was aware of Harvey Milk before most people were.

Harvey Bernard Milk ( May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978 ) was an American politician who became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Muir is one of three people so honored in California, along with Harvey Milk Day and Ronald Reagan Day.

The doctrine would soon be abolished by ballot initiative in 1982 following the negative publicity surrounding the case of Dan White, who had killed George Moscone and Harvey Milk.

Trice Harvey, Former California State Assembly member.

Former High Chancellor Thomas W. Harvey became President General of the new faction.

Former Senator Fred Thompson, known for his work on NBC's Law and Order, substituted for Harvey regularly from 2006 to 2007, prior to his unsuccessful run for President.

Former President George W. Bush issued a statement on Harvey's death, calling Harvey: " a friendly and familiar voice in the lives of millions of Americans.

Former players noted for use of the split-finger fastball include John Smoltz, Jack Morris, Mike Scott, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Bryan Harvey, Bruce Sutter, Roger Clemens, and Fred Breining.

Former staff members from SATCO commenced the creation of a new organization almost immediately, spearheaded by former Deputy Director Harvey Stein.

Hanlon however bolstered the squad with numerous new signings, Gary Burrell joined from Heybridge Swifts, Mark Beard joined from Stevenage Borough as player / assistiant manager, Paul Bruce joined from Dagenham & Redbridge & So Solid Crew Rapper, Former AFC Wimbledon player Junior Harvey was recruited, another player from Dagenham & Redbridge was brought in, Nick Eyre, signed to replace Veteran Paul Bastock.

** Drummer Noriaki Kumagai leaves the group and is replaced by Support Member Harvey Mason in some recordings, and Former Casiopea Drummer Akira Jimbo in other recordings and live performances.

Former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt was part of the original ownership company, Metro-Crescent Communications.

* Ian Harvey ( Former Australian Cricketer )

* Harvey Golub, Former CEO of American Express, Current CEO of the American International Group

* 1993 – " Two Brothers With Checks ( San Francisco Harvey )"/" One Two, One Two "

*** Cheryl and Harvey White Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, CA ( expected completion 2010 )

The annual event now known as Burning Man began as a bonfire ritual on the summer solstice in 1986 when Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and a few friends met on Baker Beach in San Francisco and burned a 9-foot ( 2. 7-meter ) wooden man as well as a smaller wooden dog.

It is not a recognized legal defense in jurisprudence, but a catchall term coined by reporters during their coverage of the trial of defendant Dan White for the murders of San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone.

Released in 2008, his feature film Milk is a biopic of openly gay San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, who was assassinated in 1978, played by Sean Penn.

On November 27, 1978, San Francisco mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by a rival politician, Dan White, who had resigned from the Board of Supervisors only two weeks prior.

The movie about the life and times of Harvey Milk, the San Francisco city Supervisor who was America's first openly gay elected official ( portrayed by actor Sean Penn, who won an Academy Award for his performance ), had its world premiere at the theater in November 2008.

In North America, the largest Chapter in the world is located at 1342 Naglee Ave. ; the headquarters of the English Grand Lodge for the Americas owns the Rosicrucian Park in San Jose, California, founded in 1927, which includes the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, the fifth planetarium built in the USA ( and the first to have a US-built star projector, built by Dr. Harvey Spencer Lewis ), the Rosicrucian Peace Garden, Rosicrucian Research Library, Grand Temple, Administration Building, Fountain Plaza and Gardens.

Sipple, who was closeted in his hometown of Detroit had met Harvey Milk back in New York and had participated in San Francisco's gay pride parades and gay rights demonstrations.

He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and of the Roy Harvey Pearce / Archive for New Poetry Prize of the University of California, San Diego.

* Harvey Milk, gay rights activist and member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors

Daniel James " Dan " White ( September 2, 1946 – October 21, 1985 ) was a San Francisco supervisor who assassinated San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, on Monday, November 27, 1978, at City Hall.

* 21 — The White Night riots occur in San Francisco after Dan White is convicted of two counts of voluntary manslaughter instead of murder in the assassinations of Harvey Milk and George Moscone.