* 1970 – Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.

* 1965 – Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.

* An Investigation by the Joint Legislative Task Force on Government Oversight into Racial Profiling Practices by the California Highway Patrol as part of a program known as Operation Pipeline

San Francisco Bay is spanned by eight bridges, all of them dedicated to vehicle traffic: the Golden Gate Bridge on Highway 101 ( which was the largest single span suspension bridge ever built at the time of its construction ) which connects San Francisco and Marin counties and is the only bridge in the area not owned by the State of California.

** A group of young men stop traffic on U. S. Highway 99 south of Yreka, California, handing out fliers proclaiming the establishment of the State of Jefferson.

* April 25 – On this Sunday morning teenage sniper Michael Clark kills three and wounds others shooting at cars from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Orcutt, California.

* U. S. Route 40, Atlantic City, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California: Victory Highway

* U. S. Route 80, Savannah, Georgia, to San Diego, California: Dixie Overland Highway

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.

After crossing the Hudson River to Weehawken, New Jersey, the Lincoln Highway continued across the country to its western terminus in Lincoln Park in San Francisco, California.

On December 10, 2008, the California Highway Patrol announced its officers, along with San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department deputies and US Marine Corps Military Police, would jointly staff some sobriety and drivers license checkpoints.

In order to facilitate overland travel, the mission settlements were situated approximately 30 miles ( 48 kilometers ) apart, so that they were separated by one day's long ride on horseback along the 600-mile ( 966-kilometer ) long el Camino Real, Spanish for " the Royal Road ", though often referred to today as the King's Highway, and also known as the California Mission Trail.

" Exceptions include the head of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, whose title is actually " commissioner.

Located at the Highway 138 and Interstate 15 junction, the Mormon Rocks are visual evidence of the San Andreas fault lying beneath the California surface.

It was followed by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. The local agencies ( Counties and Cities ) in California were assured that an equal or not less amount of monies will still be annually apportioned to the Counties and Cities as they received in 1990-91 under the Federal Highway Act of 1987 under the old Federal Aid Urban ( FAU ) and Federal Aid Secondary Program

U. S. Route 101, or U. S. Highway 101, is a north – south U. S. highway that runs through the states of California, Oregon, and Washington, on the West Coast of the United States.

It merges at some points with California Highway 1.

U. S. Route 101 is called the " Oregon Coast Highway " in Oregon, and the " Pacific Highway " in parts of California.

It is also called " The 101 " ( pronounced " the one oh one ") by Southern Californians or simply " Highway 101 " by residents of Northern California, Oregon, and Washington.

The cropduster sequence, meant to take place in northern Indiana, was shot on location on Garces Highway ( 155 ) near the towns of Wasco and Delano, north of Bakersfield in Kern County, California ().

Since highway 84 is a split route, the southern segment of state route 84 runs from Livermore in Alameda County and eventually ends at California Highway 1 in San Gregorio, a coastal community located in San Mateo County.

* Pacific Coast Highway ( California ), segments of California State Route 1

* Interview with the Apollo 16 Astronauts ( 28 June 1972 ) from the Commonwealth Club of California Records at the Hoover Institution Archives.

The Shawn Carlson's double-blind chart matching tests, in which 28 astrologers agreed to match over 100 natal charts to psychological profiles generated by the California Psychological Inventory ( CPI ) test, is one of the most renowned tests of astrology.

In America, the Nissan branch was named " Nissan Motor Corporation in U. S. A .", and chartered on September 28, 1960, in California.

He died of cerebral thrombosis ( a spontaneous blood clot in his brain ) on September 28, 1953, in San Marino, California.

Crick died of colon cancer on 28 July 2004 at the University of California San Diego ( UCSD ) Thornton Hospital in La Jolla ; he was cremated and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.

On 28 February 2011, MacLeod celebrated his 80th birthday aboard The Golden Princess on Princess Cruises in Los Angeles, California.

* 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.

On November 28, 2007, Corel announced that the office in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, where Paint Shop Pro was created, would be shut down, with development moving to offices in California and China.

* 1960 Winter Olympics February 18 to 28, 1960, in Squaw Valley Ski Resort, California, United States

* July 28 – August 12 – The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California.

* January 28 – A blow-out on Union Oil's Platform spills 80, 000 to 100, 000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County in Southern California inspiring Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the first Earth Day in 1970

* January 29 – Plane crash at Los Gatos Creek, California kills 4 US citizens and 28 deportees, commemorated in a song by Woody Guthrie.

* January 1 – In American football, the University of California defeats Ohio State 28 – 0 in the Rose Bowl.

* February 28 – Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars in Ontario, California.

* May 28 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.

* January 28 – In Hollywood, California, the charity single " We Are the World " is recorded by USA for Africa.

* April 28 – Santa Clara College is chartered in Santa Clara, California.

* February 28 – Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay.

After this record setting run in California, the New York show ran for 35 previews and 28 performances.

One of the ten campuses of the University of California ( UC ) system, UCI is the fifth-largest UC campus, with nearly 28, 000 students, 1, 100 faculty members and 9, 000 staff.

By traveling day and night with many stations and changes of teams ( and extensive mail subsidies ) these stages could get passengers and mail from the midwest to California in about 25 – 28 days.

" Pressing on, de Anza located the sites for the Presidio of San Francisco and Mission San Francisco de Asis in present day San Francisco, California on March 28, 1776.

The Oregon and California ( O & C ) Act of August 28, 1937, required sustained yield management of the timberlands in western Oregon.

University of California Publications in American Archeology and Ethnology 28: 83-278.

Blessed Junípero Serra (; ), known as Fra Juníper Serra in Catalan, his mother tongue, () ( November 24, 1713 – August 28, 1784 ) was a Majorcan Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California of the Las Californias Province in New Spain — present day California, United States.