* 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.

A 2012 book by Marcus Ruiz Evans entitled California's Next Century details an overhauling of California's statehood via a plan to embrace its unique global role and form itself as an independent republic, uniquely poised to become the Switzerland of the 21st century, a global nerve center of international diplomacy, technology and finance.

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.

Since 2001, the CECUT receives about a million visitors per year, making it Baja California's most important cultural center.

Implementation across the State varied widely ; urban areas in Northern California were the center of California's fledgling marijuana market, while rural areas like Mendocino County, Santa Cruz, and Humboldt saw county-sanctioned gardens and patient registration programs.

A 2012 book by Marcus Ruiz Evans entitled California's Next Century details an overhauling of California's statehood via a plan to embrace its unique global role and form itself as an independent republic, uniquely poised to become the Switzerland of the 21st century, a global nerve center of international diplomacy, technology and finance.

Having done that it is now the home of the El Centro metropolitan area and also an economic center of California's, government defined, " South Border ".

This camp was later to become an important supply center for pioneers during California's settlement and gold rush.

The Rotchev House, or in original documents, " Administrator's House ", is at the center of efforts to " re-interpret " Russia's part in California's colonial history.

The park's visitor center houses a museum about California's citrus industry, and antique citrus grove farm equipment is on display around the park.

Starting with " Little Taipei ", the San Gabriel Valley has emerged as Southern California's publishing center for Chinese language newspapers including the Los Angeles editions of World Journal, Taiwan Daily, Sing Tao, International Daily News, The Epoch Times, China Daily, The China Press, and Xin Min Evening News.

School and election precincts were established early, and one of California's many Hangman's Trees stood near the center of town.

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.

The Salton Sea is a shallow, saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault, predominantly in California's Imperial Valley.

McEwen's ally Newt Gingrich of Georgia had discovered that, thanks to the C-SPAN cable network's promise of " gavel-to-gavel coverage " of the House, he and his fellow conservatives such as McEwen, Mississippi's Trent Lott, California's Robert K. Dornan, and Pennsylvania's Robert S. Walker could speak directly to Americans.

However, Los Angeles, California's inclusionary zoning ordinance for rental housing was invalidated in 2009 by the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District because it directly conflicted with a provision of the state's Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1996 which specifically gave all landlords the right to set the " initial rental rate " for new housing units.

In 1990 superacid specialist Dr. Surya Prakash, and Nobel laureate Dr. George A. Olah, both of the University of Southern California's Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, invented a fuel cell that would directly convert methanol to electricity.

For instance, California's Freeway Service Patrol program consists of privately owned and operated wreckers that have contracts with the state, whereas Georgia's HERO program is run directly by the Georgia Department of Transportation: its vehicles are state property and its operators state employees.

Its traditional business model directly conflicts with California's strong consumer protection statutes which are designed to prevent the obvious conflict of interest that arises when an optometrist and an optician practice side-by-side in the same business ( one can prescribe more eyewear to be made by the other, thus inflating the overall profits of the business ).