The University of California's second president, Daniel Coit Gilman, opened the Berkeley campus in September 1873.

His maternal grandparents were Benjamin Davis Wilson ( December 1, 1811 to March 11, 1878 ), mayor of Los Angeles in 1851 – 1852 and the namesake of Southern California's Mount Wilson, and his second wife, Margaret Hereford.

The decreases in population from 1910 – 1920, and from 1940 – 1960, were chiefly caused by different phases of the Great Migration, as African Americans left segregation and oppression of the South to seek better opportunities in the North, during the first phase, and in the West, especially California's defense industry, in the second phase.

After several legal and procedural efforts failed to stop it, California's first-ever gubernatorial recall election was held on October 7, and the results were certified on November 14, 2003, making Davis the first governor recalled in the history of California, and just the second in U. S. history.

In the middle of Eshoo's second term on the San Mateo Board of Supervisors, she ran for Congress in California's 12th congressional district.

The Death Cab For Cutie song " 405 " on their second studio album, We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes, is often incorrectly associated with California's I-405.

California's second solo album, Euro-American, was released in 1982 by Beggar's Banquet.

Dublin High School was established in the fall of 1968 as the second high school in Pleasanton, California's Amador Valley High School District and graduated its first senior class in June 1971.

At the height of his popularity in 1854, the Democratic majority State Legislature named modern-day Lake Tahoe " Lake Bigler " in honor of California's third Governor, who was then beginning his second term.

On the second of these ( July – September 1848 ), he crossed Mexico in disguise to bring the federal government proof of California's gold.

It was a holding company for the nation's second largest thrift institution and California's fourth largest bank.

Appointed by Governor George Deukmejian in 1989 she is the longest-serving justice sitting on the Court, having been retained by California's voters three times — first to fill the unexpired term in 1990, followed by second and third consecutive twelve-year terms in 1994 and 2006.

Both suspects, convicted of murder and sentenced to death, ultimately received life-imprisonment sentences following a second trial for each, several appeals and a California court decision, California v. Anderson, that found California's death penalty to be cruel and unusual punishment.

* 2007-DRHS wins California's Distinguished School Award for the second time.

Complete with an enclosed outdoor garden and fountain, Rose Hills ' second mausoleum reflects California's early Spanish Mission era.

This included the huge Cedar Fire, the second largest fire in California's history after the Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889.

It was Southern California's second Spanish-language stations, and was on the air a few hours a day.

The highway was built by the Mexican government to improve Baja California's economy and increase tourism.

Unlike states where tolls or bonds funded highway construction, California's gasoline taxes were earmarked for building the system.

* Partners for Advanced Transit & Highways-researching ways to improve the operation of California's state highway system

The remaining section of the Ridge Route, California's first highway connecting the San Joaquin Valley to the Los Angeles Basin, ends at 138 in Gorman.

In early 2005, Perata introduced a bill to repair California's flagging infrastructure including highway improvements, housing reform and levee repairs.

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.

Military governor Bennet Riley, the last of California's heads of state prior to statehood, is portrayed, but the Maryland-born American is played by the Mexican actor Pedro Armendáriz Jr., and speaks English with a Hispanic accent.

Pedro Mira plays pre-Presidential Abraham Lincoln as an observer to California's statehood, though the real Lincoln never traveled to the region.

* Thirteen of California's fifteen peaks which exceed 14, 000 feet ( a Fourteener ) in elevation ; the isolated Mount Shasta in northern California, and White Mountain Peak in neighboring Mono County, are the only California 14ers not ( at least partly ) in Inyo County

Federally, Mountain Ranch is located in California's 3rd congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 7 and is represented by Republican Dan Lungren.

Federally, Mountain View Acres is located in California's 25th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 7 and is represented by Republican Buck McKeon.

Federally, Round Mountain is located in California's 2nd congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 13 and is represented by Republican Wally Herger.

Examples of singing sand dunes include California's Kelso Dunes and Eureka Dunes ; sugar sand beaches and Warren Dunes in southwestern Michigan ; Sand Mountain in Nevada ; the Booming Dunes in the Namib Desert, Africa ; Porth Oer ( also known as Whistling Sands ) near Aberdaron in Wales ; Indiana Dunes in Indiana ; Barking Sands in Hawaiʻi ; Mingsha Shan in Dunhuang, China ; Singing Beach in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts ; near the Al Udeid Air Base west of Doha, in Qatar ; and Gebel Naqous, near el-Tor, South Sinai, Egypt.

Mammoth Mountain is located in California's Eastern Sierra approximately south of the Nevada state line and 50 minutes from the Eastern Gate of Yosemite National park.

Lorimar producers searching for a location to use as the principal backdrop for the show decided upon Spring Mountain Vineyard, a winery located in St. Helena, in California's Napa Valley.

The last park that Wynne would see acquired in his lifetime under the Six Flags name was California's Magic Mountain ( outside Los Angeles ) in 1979.

* Dillon, Richard The Legend of Grizzly Adams: California's Greatest Mountain Man, New York: Coward-McCann, 1966.

Federally, Rail Road Flat is located in California's 3rd congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 7 and is represented by Republican Dan Lungren.

These are California's Green, a show about environmentally-friendly measures being undertaken in California ; California's Golden Coast ; California's Golden Parks ; California's Water ; California's Missions ; Road Trip, a show about sights along California's highways and byways ; Downtown, a show about Los Angeles ' downtown ; Visiting ..., a show about sights in the LA area ; and Palm Springs.

El Camino Real ( Spanish for The Royal Road, also known as The King's Highway ) and sometimes associated with Calle Real usually refers to the historic 600-mile ( 966-kilometer ) California Mission Trail, connecting the former Alta California's 21 missions ( along with a number of support sites ), 4 presidios, and several pueblos, stretching from Mission San Diego de Alcalá in San Diego in the south to Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma in the north.

He also produces derived shows including California's Golden Parks, California's Water, Visiting ... with Huell Howser, Our Neighborhoods, The Bench, Road Trip, " California's Golden Fairs ," and various specials.

Following Los Angeles ' winning the right to be the western terminus of the transcontinental railroad, San Diego's civic leaders proposed the Plank Road to ensure their city became the hub of Southern California's road network rather than Los Angeles.

The reaction of certain City Council members to California's newest anti-secrecy laws was as dismaying as it was disappointing.

In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, in 1969, an ecologically catastrophic oil spill from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel, Barry Commoner's protest against nuclear testing, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb all added anxiety about the environment.

By 1901, the San Joaquin Basin was the main oil-producing region of California, and it remains so in the 21st century, with huge oil fields including the Midway-Sunset, Kern River, and Belridge fields producing much of California's onshore oil.

In March 2012, Bacon was featured in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, ' 8 ' — a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage — as Attorney Charles J. Cooper.

In the early 1980s, some of the leading bands in Southern California's hardcore punk rock scene emphasized a more melodic approach than was typical of their peers.

Bono was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1994 to represent California's 44th congressional district.

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.

THX 1138 was developed from Lucas ' student film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which he made in 1967 while attending the University of Southern California's film school.

In 2001, Lovejoy was the recipient of the University of Southern California's Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

In Lockyer v. Andrade,, the Court upheld a 50 years to life sentence with the possibility of parole imposed under California's three strikes law when the defendant was convicted of shoplifting videotapes worth a total of about $ 150.

USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university.

This term was later used as nickname to describe several regional clusters of companies in the information technology sector, in analogy to California's Silicon Valley:

JGI was founded in 1997 to unite the expertise and resources in genome mapping, DNA sequencing, technology development, and information sciences pioneered at the three genome centers at University of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( LBNL ), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ), and LANL.

*" Blecher of California's savviest and most experienced litigators " was flabbergasted that this young kid knocked him out of the box, really in the first round, " said litigator and partner Thomas D. Barr to the New York Times Sunday Magazine, June 1, 1986

She was named 1954 Alumna of the Year by the University of California's alumni association.

During World War II, Judge Louis E. Goodman dismissed the case against native Californian Masaaki Kuwabara and 25 other draft resisters from Tule Lake Segregation Center on due process grounds. His decision for the defense was unique among the Japanese-American draft resistance cases, and foreshadowed the cases on the Japanese evacuation and California's anti-Japanese Alien Land Law yet to be tried before the Supreme Court:

Wilson was a self-made man who was orphaned in Nashville, Tennessee, came to Alta California as a fur trapper and adventurer during the American Indian Wars before marrying Ramona Yorba, the daughter of a California land baron, Bernardo Yorba, and made his fortune through the wedding dowry, receiving Rancho Jurupa, settling what would become California's San Gabriel Valley, after the Mexican American War.

Guaraldi was born in San Francisco, California's North Beach area, a place that became very important to his blossoming musical career.

The idea of a fast mail route to the Pacific coast was prompted largely by California's new found prominence and its rapidly growing population.

* California's application for admission as a free state with its current boundaries was approved and a Southern proposal to split California at parallel 35 ° north to provide a Southern territory was not approved.

There was a period in the mid 1960's when U. S. Forest Service policy in California's National Forests for the California black oak was systematic extermination by girdling the trees.