Under the leadership of Hale, Noyes and Millikan ( aided by the booming economy of Southern California ), Caltech grew to national prominence in the 1920s and concentrated on the development of Roosevelt's " Hundredth Man ".

In his review of The Mismeasure of Man, Arthur Jensen, a University of California ( Berkeley ) educational psychologist whom Gould much criticized in the book, wrote that Gould used straw man arguments to advance his opinions, misrepresented other scientists, and propounded a political agenda.

* November 10 – In San Francisco, California, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson ( dubbed " Gorilla Man ") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boardinghouse landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.

* March 29 – The 61st Academy Awards are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, with Rain Man winning Best Picture.

The remains of Arlington Springs Man on Santa Rosa Island are among the traces of an ancient habitation in California, dated to the last ice age, Wisconsin glaciation about 13, 000 years ago.

Corral ), the Earp brothers ( Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil and James ) are driving cattle to California when they cross the Clanton family led by the " Old Man ".

In a 2000 publication about Kennewick Man, anthropologist Glynn Custred of California State University East Bay said expert on Asian populations physical anthropologist C. Loring Brace of University of Michigan believed people related to the Jomon came before the modern Indian and that " two varieties of American Indian arose from the former being absorbed by the latter with the Plains Indian resembling the older group.

In 1970, Quincy Jones convinced Johnson to move from New York to California to compose for cinema and television, where he eventually scored movies such as Across 110th Street, Cleopatra Jones, Top of the Heap and Willie Dynamite, as well as TV series such as Starsky & Hutch, Mike Hammer and The Six Million Dollar Man.

In 1946, she traveled with Roland to the United States, where she visited Man Ray in California.

Nickelodeon Studios closed down in 2005 and was converted into the Blue Man Group Sharp Aquos Theatre in 2007 ; Nickelodeon now tapes its live-action series at the Nickelodeon On Sunset studios ( formerly the Earl Carroll Theatre ) in Hollywood, California and other studio locations in Hollywood and other areas.

In the summer 2012, Jones will play the role of Mrs. Paroo, along with her son Patrick Cassidy playing the role of Harold Hill, in the California Musical Theatre production of The Music Man.

" California Man ", a song written by Roy Wood and covered by the band on Heaven Tonight was used in the advertising promotion.

* Haslam, Gerald W. Workin ' Man Blues: Country Music in California.

Famous match races include the 1851 match at York between the Epsom Derby winners The Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur ; the 1878 four mile long race in Louisville between the Eastern U. S. colt Ten Broeck and California filly Mollie McCarty that inspired the song Molly and Tenbrooks, the Canadian contest between Man o ' War and Sir Barton in 1920, won by Man O ' War ; Seabiscuit's victory over War Admiral in the 1938 Pimlico Special ; the 1955 race between Nashua and Swaps, the 1966 Pace of the Century between standardbred champs Bret Hanover and Cardigan Bay, and 1975's tragedy-marred contest between colt Foolish Pleasure and filly Ruffian at Belmont Park.

* White, Eric Walter, Stravinsky: The Man and His Works ( Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966 ).

Museum of Man, San Diego, California | San Diego.

Other honors have included: The New York State Senate Liberty Award, the Golden Star Leadership Award, Los Angeles, California ; Special Achievement Award, Special Narcotics Prosecutor's Office, City of New York ; Man of the Year Award, Honor Legion, Police Department – City of New York ; Man of the Year Award, Detective ’ s Endowment Association, Police Department – City of New York ; Man of the Year Award, Brooklyn Law School, LELSA ; 2 Distinguished Service Awards, U. S. Department of Homeland Security ; DEA Administrator's Award, U. S. Department of Justice, DEA ; Distinguished Person of the Year, NYC Correction Captains Association ; Distinguished Service Award, New York Shields ; Distinguished Service Award, New York City Retired Detective's Association ; Dedication and Commitment Award, NYC Correction Officer ’ s Association and the President ’ s Appreciation Award, NYC Correction Guardians Association.

As the release of the first Electric Light Orchestra album drew near, The Move released what turned out to be a farewell disc, a maxi single in 1972 consisting of " California Man ", " Ella James " ( from Message ) and " Do Ya ".

Todd Rundgren recorded a version of " Do Ya " with his group Utopia on their album Another Live, Cheap Trick recorded a version of " California Man " on their Heaven Tonight album, whilst Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols admitted that one of the guitar riffs on " God Save The Queen " was inspired by that on " Fire Brigade ".

" The Grand Old Man of Football " retired from Stockton College at the age of 96 and later died in Stockton, California, at 102 years old.

The family moved to Los Angeles, California in her childhood and she began her acting career at the age of four in the first version of The Squaw Man.

* 1902 – " Electric Theatre ", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.

* Wilner, Wayne T., " B1700 Design and Implementation ", Burroughs Corporation, Santa Barbara Plant, Goleta, California, May 1972.

* " Burroughs B 5000 Conference, OH 98 ", Oral history on 6 September 1985, Marina del Ray, California.

The song was the # 1 hit in the U. S. for the five weeks encompassing March 1966, the # 1 hit on the Hot 100's end of the year chart for 1966, and the No. 21 song of 1960s, despite the later unpopularity of the Vietnam War and the competing " California Dreaming ", sharply dividing the popular music market.

Others believe it was a corrupted term of " Chilango ", meaning an inhabitant from Mexico City or Central Mexico ( i. e. the highland states of Mexico ( state ), Jalisco, Puebla ( state ) and Michoacán ); and even from the term " Chileno " by the Chilean presence in mid 19th-century California, when miners from Chile arrived in the California Gold Rush ( 1848 – 51 ).

The History of Cash Registers ", Museum of American Heritage, Palo Alto, California, March 29 to July 7, 1996, Exhibit Companion

In June, the band released their first single, " California Über Alles ", on the independent label Alternative Tentacles.

Headrick, who is now regarded as the " Father of Disc Golf ", designed and installed the first standardized target course in what was then known as Oak Grove Park in La Cañada Flintridge, California.

* 2001: I Love Lucy's 50th Anniversary Special ( TV ) ( performer: " California, Here I Come ", " Babalu ( Babalú )") ... aka " The I Love Lucy 50th Anniversary Special " – USA ( DVD title )

The American industry, or " Hollywood ", as it was becoming known after its new geographical center in California, gained the position it has held, more or less, ever since: film factory for the world, exporting its product to most countries on earth and controlling the market in many of them.

This was the first of 11 winters from 1855 through 1865 known as the " bonanza period ", during which gray whaling along the coast of Baja California reached its peak.

By analogy with the ancient Greek term for agriculture, geoponics, the science of cultivating the earth, Gericke coined the term hydroponics in 1937 ( although he asserts that the term was suggested by W. A. Setchell, of the University of California ) for the culture of plants in water ( from the Greek hydro -, " water ", and ponos, " labour ").

This had been followed three years later by " Twins ", a segment featuring actors Steve Buscemi and Joie and Cinqué Lee, and then in 1993 with the Short Film Palme d ' Or-winning " Somewhere in California ", starring musicians Tom Waits and Iggy Pop.

In 1977, Falwell supported Anita Bryant's campaign, which was called by its proponents " Save Our Children ", to overturn an ordinance in Dade County, Florida prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and he supported a similar movement in California.

Many of the sketches from the British version were recreated, such as the " California Dreamin '", " English Course ", and " Sign Language " sketches.

The band's first release was the single " Stick to Your Guns / Toast of the Town ", which was released on their own record label, Leathür Records, which had a pressing & distribution deal with Greenworld Distribution in Torrance, California.

* 1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the " Night Stalker ", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.

**" Return of the Swallow ", annual observance of the swallows ' return to Mission San Juan Capistrano in California.

*" First Nations Experience Television ", 2011, Official Website, multi-media platform, a partnership between the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and KVCR, a PBS member station located in California ’ s Inland Empire.

The Patterson-Gimlin film ( also referred to as simply the Patterson film ) is a famous short motion picture of an unidentified subject the film makers purported to be a " Bigfoot ", that was supposedly filmed on October 20, 1967, by Roger Patterson ( February 14, 1926 – January 15, 1972 ) and Robert Gimlin ( October 18, 1931 ) on the Klamath River outside of Orleans, California.

The band also released a limited edition blue vinyl 7 " single, " Fuck California ", on C / Z Records.

RFC 1, entitled " Host Software ", was written by Steve Crocker of the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA ), and published on April 7, 1969.

SETI advocates continued without government funding, and in 1995 the nonprofit SETI Institute of Mountain View, California resurrected the MOP program under the name of Project " Phoenix ", backed by private sources of funding.