Mumy was born in San Gabriel, California, the son of Muriel Gertrude ( née Gould ) and Charles William Mumy, Sr., a cattle rancher.

| PLACE OF BIRTH = San Gabriel, California, United States

The mountain systems include: the southeastern Transverse Ranges ( the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains ) in the Mojave Desert north and northeast of the Los Angeles basin and Inland Empire ; and the northern Peninsular Ranges ( San Jacinto, Santa Rosa, and Laguna Mountains ), which separate the Colorado Desert ( western Sonoran Desert ) from lower coastal Southern California.

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Ed worked for the San Gabriel, California-based Wham-O Corporation and is credited for pioneering the modern era of disc sports.

Spanish settlers also knew of the seeps, such as at Rancho La Brea ( Spanish for Tar Ranch ) in present-day Los Angeles, from which the priests obtained tar to waterproof the roofs of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel missions.

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* Afternoon: An Egyptian-born Coptic Christian, Adel Karas, 48, was shot dead by two white males inside his International Market grocery store in San Gabriel, CA.

* September 8 – In California, Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera found the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in what is now San Gabriel, California.

George Smith Patton Jr. was born in San Gabriel, California in 1885, to George Smith Patton Sr. ( 1856 – 1927 ) and his wife Ruth Wilson ( 1861 – 1928 ), daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson.

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.

A cenotaph was placed at the Wilson-Patton family plot at the San Gabriel Cemetery in San Gabriel, California, adjacent to the Church of Our Saviour ( Episcopal ), where Patton was baptized and confirmed.

* At the Episcopal Church of Our Savior in San Gabriel, California, there is a stained glass window depicting Patton as a version of Saint George.

" The Wilson-Patton family members are buried in the San Gabriel Cemetery about 120 yards to the west of the Church, including the patriarch, Benjamin ( Don Benito ) Wilson.

It was the result of concerted action by Los Angeles-area businessmen and property owners who were concerned by the harm being done to the watershed of the San Gabriel Mountains by ranchers and miners.

View from the Pierce College Performing Arts Building up in the Chalk Hills, northeast across San Fernando Valley to the San Gabriel Mountains.

Mission San Gabriel Arcángel unknowingly witnessed the origin of the California citrus industry with the planting of the region's first significant orchard in 1804, though the commercial potential of citrus was not realized until 1841.

* Four of the missions still run under the auspices of the Franciscan Order ( San Antonio de Padua, Santa Barbara, San Miguel Arcángel, and San Luis Rey de Francia ); and

A notable example of an intact complex is the now-threatened Mission San Miguel Arcángel: its chapel retains the original interior murals created by Salinan Indians under the direction of Esteban Munras, a Spanish artist and last Spanish diplomat to California.

* Mission San Miguel Arcángel founded in 1797

* Mission San Rafael Arcángel founded in 1817 – originally planned as an asistencia to Mission San Francisco de Asís

* Mission San Francisco Solano founded in 1823 – originally planned as an asistencia to Mission San Rafael Arcángel

* Mission San Rafael Arcángel, in San Rafael

* Mission San Miguel Arcángel, in San Miguel

* Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, in San Gabriel

The Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is a fully functioning Roman Catholic mission and a historic landmark in San Gabriel, California.

Mission San Gabriel Arcángel circa 1900.

A streetcar of the Pacific Electric Railway makes a stop at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel circa 1905.

William McPherson was a rancher, scholar, and collector from Orange County, California who donated his extensive collection of mission documents, primarily from the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, to Special Collections in 1964.

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In 1817, Mission San Rafael Arcángel was established as an asistencia to act as a hospital for the Mission, though it would later be granted full mission status in 1822.

Luís Peralta named his holding " Rancho San Antonio.

During his first voyage in 1492, instead of reaching Japan as he had intended, Columbus landed in the Bahamas archipelago, at a locale he named San Salvador.

The video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas features a casino named " Caligulas Palace " ( A spoof of Caesar's Palace ) in the Las Venturas region of the in-game world.

In San Francisco, Coppola owns a restaurant named Cafe Zoetrope, located in the Sentinel Building.

* Dontrelle Willis ( 2003 – 2007 ) — The " D-Train " was named the National League Rookie of the Year in 2003 and showcased his remarkable ( for a pitcher ) hitting ability by going 3-for-3 with a triple while scoring a run during Game 4 of the 2003 National League Division Series, which the Marlins won 7 – 6 over the San Francisco Giants to advance to the NL Championship Series.

In 1972, a three-month-old gray whale named Gigi ( II ) was captured for brief study by Dr. David W. Kenney, and then released near San Diego.

General Alexander O ' Reilly, " Father of the Puerto Rican Militia ", named Tomas O ' Daly chief engineer of modernising the defences of San Juan, this included the fortress of San Cristóbal.

Tomas O ' Daly and Miguel Kirwan were partners in the " Hacienda San Patricio ", which they named after the patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick.

He is the only canonised king of France ; consequently, there are many places named after him, most notably St. Louis, Missouri and Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in the United States, São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil and both the state and city of San Luis Potosí in Mexico.

The cities of San Luis Potosí in Mexico ; St. Louis, Missouri ; St. Louis, Michigan ; San Luis, Arizona ; San Luis, Colorado ; Saint-Louis du Sénégal ; Saint-Louis in Alsace ; as well as Lake Saint-Louis in Quebec, the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in California and rue Saint Louis of Pondicherry are among the many places named after the king and saint.

On August 21, he sighted an island at 14 ° N that they named " San Bartolome " ( probably Taongi ).

The Spanish ship San Pedro and two other vessels in expedition commanded by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi on January 9, discovered an island at 10 ° N where they went ashore and traded with natives and named it " Los Barbudos " ( possibly Mejit ).

Polo was finally released from captivity in August 1299, and returned home to Venice, where his father and uncle had purchased a large house in the central quarter named contrada San Giovanni Crisostomo.

He also wrote-off multiple debts including 300 lire that his sister-in-law owed him, and others for the convent of San Giovanni, San Paolo of the Order of Preachers, and a cleric named Friar Benvenuto.

Pope Martin I, born near Todi, Umbria, in the place now named after him ( Pian di San Martino ), was pope from 649 to 653, succeeding Pope Theodore I on 5 July 649.

He was named Cardinal-Priest of San Sisto on 22 February 1672 ( allegedly, against his will ); later he was bishop of Manfredonia, bishop of Cesena and then archbishop of Benevento.

In 1657 he was named Cardinal-Priest of San Sisto and Secretary of State.

Several places named San Fernando were founded across the Spanish Empire.

In November 2007, a ship named COSCO Busan collided with the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge and spilled over 58, 000 gallons of bunker fuel, creating the largest oil spill in the region since 1996.