* 2010 – California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.

* 1904 – The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.

The most popular single earthquake in fiction is the hypothetical " Big One " expected of California's San Andreas Fault someday, as depicted in the novels Richter 10 ( 1996 ) and Goodbye California ( 1977 ) among other works.

The Information Sciences Institute ( ISI ) is a research and development unit of the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering which focuses on computer and communications technology and information processing.

An ancient glacial lake that formed in the Great Lakes region of North America, Lake Agassiz, is named after him, as are Mount Agassiz in California's Palisades, Mount Agassiz, in the Uinta Mountains, Agassiz Peak in Arizona and in his native Switzerland, the Agassizhorn in the Bernese Alps.

Nevada's reading is the third highest temperature recorded in the U. S. just behind Arizona's reading and California's reading.

For example, California's insured population of 20 million is the most competitive in the nation and 44 % of that market is dominated by two insurance companies, Anthem and Kaiser Permanente.

The Supreme Court of California's explanation of this principle is that

Limbaugh's unprecedented success is illustrated by Fresno, California's then number-one radio station, KMJ " news-talk radio ," a typical example of how the talk radio format was changed nation wide.

The University of California's campuses boast large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every field and it is widely regarded as one of the top public university systems in the world.

Hoping both to expand and raise funds, the College of California's trustees formed the College Homestead Association and purchased 160 acres ( 650, 000 m² ) of land in what is now Berkeley in 1866.

For example, in the United States, California's Oakland ( KOAK ), Monterey ( KMRY ) and Santa Ana ( KSNA ) airports routinely grant temporary IFR clearance when a low coastal overcast forces instrument approaches, while the rest of the state is still under visual flight rules.

In Mazda's RX-8 with the Renesis engine, fuel economy is now within normal limits while passing California State emissions requirements, including California's Low Emissions Vehicle ( LEV ) standards.

* California's sodomy law is repealed.

The park is also Southern California's quarantine center for zoo animals imported into the United States through San Diego.

The Sacramento River is often said to receive " two-thirds to three-quarters of northern California's precipitation though it has only one-third to one-quarter of the land.

Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, it is approximately northeast of Los Angeles.

The centre is located in Moffett Field in California's Silicon Valley.

California black oak comprises a total volume of 29 % of California's hardwood timber resources, and is the major hardwood sawn into lumber there.

It is preserved — restored in California's Fort Ross State Historic Park 50 miles north of San Francisco.

The 21 Alta California missions were established along the northernmost section of California's El Camino Real ( Spanish for " The Royal Highway ", though often referred to as " The King's Highway "), christened in honor of King Charles III ), much of which is now U. S. Route 101 and several Mission Streets.

In fact, around one-eighth of California's population is from Okie heritage.

It was the thirteenth of California's Spanish missions, and is the namesake of the city of Soledad.

All that was left of the Mission was a single pear tree from the old Mission's orchard, it is for this reason that San Rafael is known as the " most obliterated of California's missions.

In his CDC work, Carvey has the close-in support and advice of one of California's shrewdest political strategists: former Democratic National Committeeman Paul Ziffren, who backed him over a Northland candidate espoused by Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk.

* September 9 – Fashion Island, one of California's first outdoor shopping malls, opens in Newport Beach.

California's first vineyard was located on the Mission grounds, with the planting of the " Mission " or " Criollo " grape in 1779, one grown extensively throughout Spanish America at the time but with " an uncertain European origin.

Charles W. Bell from California's 9th congressional district accepted Groves as an alternate for one of his appointments, but the principal nominee accepted.

California's constitution is one of the longest collections of laws in the world, taking up 110 pages.

During California's Gubernatorial recall campaign, Sanchez was one of the first Democrats to break from Governor Gray Davis and state that a Democrat should run to succeed Davis in case the recall measure passed.

However, both the seafood industry and truck farming declined after mid-century, due to overfishing on the one hand, and the opening of California's Central Valley to irrigated agriculture on the other, but the advent of the large-scale poultry industry filled this gap.

Under Governor Davis, California's anti-tobacco campaign became one of the largest and most effective in the nation.

Other points of interest include the San Diego Botanic Garden, Self-Realization Fellowship temple and Hermitage, historic La Paloma Theater, Moonlight Beach, and one of California's classic downtowns along historic Coast Highway 101.

Vallecito was one of California's important early-day mining towns.

Situated directly above its own North Coast harbor, one of California's smallest incorporated cities by population ( 367 residents in 2010, up from 311 residents in 2000 ) is noted for its spectacular coastline with ten public beaches and offshore rocks.

Trinidad was the original county seat of Klamath County, one of California's original counties, from 1851 to 1854.

At the time of statehood in 1850, La Porte was located in Yuba County, one of California's 27 original counties.

Vista has one of Southern California's only two Japanese American cultural centers, due to the North County region's large Japanese community and historical presence in the agricultural industries goes back to the 1890's.

* Mission San Francisco Solano (# 3 )-On July 4, 1823, Padre José Altamira founded the northernmost of California's Franciscan missions here, the only one established in California under independent Mexico.

Five thousand workers gathered in Tulare for the dead strikers ' funerals, one of the largest agricultural demonstrations in California's history.

In the mid-1990s, multiple large retail centers, including one of California's largest outlet malls and movie theater were built south of US 101 and west of Carmen Drive.

" As the initial headquarters of the Union Oil Company of California, Santa Paula was one of the early centers of California's enormous petroleum industry.

After his success in Europe, one of Oakenfold's first major events in America was Fresno, California's Cyberfest on 22 July 2000.

In the 1920s, vigilantes opposed to IWW organizers at California's harbor of San Pedro, kidnapped at least one organizer, subjected him to tarring and feathering, and left him in a remote location.

Fleiss was described in the Los Angeles Times as " everyone's favorite baby doctor " and having been " one of Southern California's most sought-after physicians " for thirty years.

In 1913 King was voted one of California's two greatest heroes and funds were appropriated for a statue.

He was also the only one, until California's Gray Davis was recalled in 2003.

At one point in California's wine history, Carignane ( as it is known there ) was the third most widely planted grape variety but has since dropped considerably in production.