On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

On July 1, 2008, the Rockies defeated the San Diego Padres, 4 – 0, in the shortest nine-inning game in Coors Field history – one hour and 58 minutes.

On August 24, the Rockies faced the San Francisco Giants in what ended up being a 14 inning game which lasted close to 5 hours ( 4: 57 ), the second longest game in Rockies history.

Ruins from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, remembered as one of the worst natural disaster s in United States history

Although they finished second in the conference to the San Jose Sharks, the Wings became the first team in NHL history to top 100 points in nine straight seasons.

* Piece by Piece ( 2005 ), a feature-length documentary on the history of San Francisco graffiti from the early 1980s until the present day.

The Batallón de San Patricio, a battalion of U. S. troops who deserted and fought alongside the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848, is also famous in Mexican history.

The State Park includes a visitor's center that in addition to housing exhibits and a film about the battle, also includes information about the cultural history of the San Pasqual Valley.

* 2003 – The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes, and destroys 2, 200 homes around San Diego.

For example, in 1997, against the San Francisco 49ers, the team wore midnight green jerseys and pants for the first of only two occasions in team history.

The history of San Marino is both very European and typical for the Italian Peninsula, and yet helps explain its unusual characteristics as the sole remaining Italian microstate.

San Marino has been occupied by foreign militaries three times in its history, each for only a short period of time.

In the same year a second referendum took place on May 5 dealing with the first electoral laws and on June 10 the first political elections in San Marino's history resulted in an overwhelming victory of the exponents of democracy.

San Marino carried out the last execution in its history in 1468 ( by hanging ).

It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

After two consecutive close second place finishes, the Giants, under new manager Felipe Alou, recorded 100 victories for the seventh time in franchise history and the third time in San Francisco, winning their division for the third time in seven seasons.

Highlights included Johnson earning his 300th career victory, becoming the twenty-fourth pitcher in Major League history to do so, as well as struggling starter Jonathan Sánchez tossing a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres on July 10, the first Giants no-hitter since 1976.

Modeled after recent successes in downtown ballpark building ( such as San Francisco's AT & T Park ), and incorporating San Diego history in the form of the preservation of the facade of the historic Western Metals Company building ( now the left-field corner, the corner of the building substituting for the left field foul pole ), the new Petco Park is a sharp contrast to their previous home at Qualcomm ( Jack Murphy ) Stadium which was a cookie-cutter type football-baseball facility located in an outer, mostly commercial-industrial, area of the city near an interstate interchange.

The San Diego Padres have used six different logos and four different color combinations throughout their history.

A false start penalty against San Francisco prevented them from attempting to score a touchdown, but Wersching kicked a 26-yard field goal, increasing the 49ers ' lead, 20 – 0, which was the largest halftime lead in Super Bowl history to that date.

The Dolphins advanced through the special 16-team playoffs by defeating the New England Patriots, 28-13, the San Diego Chargers, 34-13, and the New York Jets, 14-0, to earn a trip to their fourth Super Bowl in team history.

The Cowboys defeated the Bills by the score of 30 – 13, winning their fourth Super Bowl in team history, tying the Pittsburgh Steelers and the San Francisco 49ers for most Super Bowl wins.

UCSF traces its history to Dr. Hugh H. Toland, a South Carolina surgeon who found great success and wealth after moving to San Francisco in 1852.

Ruins from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, remembered as one of the worst natural disaster s in United States history

This work enjoyed renewed popularity starting in the sixteenth century, when there was a revival of interest in history ; Florián de Ocampo published a new edition and Lorenzo de Sepúlveda used it as the chief source of his popular romances.

San Lorenzo has an unusual culture and history, which John learns about while studying a guidebook lent to him by the newly-appointed US ambassador to the country.

He also writes a history of San Lorenzo that the narrator reads on his flight to the island.

If this is true, most of the distance that the Huastecs migrated during their entire history, from Guatemala to the Huasteca, was traveled in only a century or two at most: the portion between the Olmec heartland around San Lorenzo, and the environs of San Luisa.

During its long history, this cathedral has been the seat of the Council of Florence ( 1439 ), heard the preachings of Girolamo Savonarola and witnessed the murder of Giuliano di Piero de ' Medici on Sunday, 26 April 1478 ( with Lorenzo Il Magnifico barely escaping death ) in the Pazzi conspiracy.

On the history of Florence and of Tuscany he wrote Tavole cronologiche e sincrone della storia fiorentina ( 1841 ; Supplement, 1875 ); Geschichte Toscanas seit dem Ende des florentinischen Freistaats ( History of Toscany since the end of the Florentine freestate, Gotha, 1876-77 ); and a work on Lorenzo de ' Medici ( Leipzig, 1874, and again 1883 ).

At the museums one can tour the Lorenzo Bevan's 1845 lead mine, ride a 1931 zinc mine train, and view many exhibits on Platteville's mining history as well as Rollo Jamison's personal collection of artifacts.

The cataloging of Barolo's vineyards has a long history dating back to the work of Lorenzo Fantini in the late 19th century to Renato Ratti and Luigi Veronelli in the late 20th century, but as of 2009 there is still no official classification within the region.

Lorenzo ’ s history is contentious, both “ despised by unions and admired by airline strategists .” In 1990, after Lorenzo liquidated his holdings after 18 years in the airline industry, Alfred E. Kahn, the “ main architect of airline deregulation ,” offered this perspective on Lorenzo ’ s leadership: “ I don ’ t think there is any question that he saved Continental, but his tactics obviously didn ’ t work when he took over Eastern .”

His final work, Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects, published in 1992, synthesizes the history of architectural ideas and projects through discussions of the great centres of architectural innovation in Italy ( Florence, Rome, and Venice ), key patrons from the middle of the fifteenth century to the early sixteenth century, and crucial figures such as Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Francesco di Giorgio, Lorenzo de ’ Medici, Bramante, Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione and Giulio Romano.

In 1946, San Lorenzo broke the River Plate monopoly and won the league title ; the team then went on to a tour of Spain and Portugal that was one of the highlights of the club's history.

Though considered a milestone in the development of Renaissance architecture, S. Lorenzo has a complicated building history.

In more recent history, the Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura was home to the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1374 to 1847.

After opening with a glimpse of Mount Ida, an important locus for the history of the Trojan War, Canto LXXVIII moves through much that is familiar from the earlier cantos in the sequence: del Cossa, the economic basis of war, Pound's writer and artist friends in London, " virtuous " rulers ( Lorenzo de Medici, the emperors Justinian, Titus and Antoninus, Mussolini ), usury and stamp scripts culminating in the Nausicaa episode from the Odyssey and a reference to the Confucian classic Annals of Spring and Autumn in which " there are no righteous wars ".

The trio later visit Lorenzo, the curator of a local museum, who explains the city's history and also introduces them to the Defence Mechanism of Altomare ( DMA ).

Dr. Lorenzo Johnston Greene ( 1899 – 1988 ) taught history at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri from 1933-1972.

They lost three sons: Lorenzo, who served in the 27th North Carolina, buried in Winchester, Virginia ; Alphonzo, who is currently unaccounted for in the family history ; and their daughter Eliza's husband, Robert Duke, who died in a Confederate army hospital and is buried in Lynchburg, Virginia.

León Najnudel ( centre ) makes the symbolical jump ball | opening tip of the first game in the LNB's history, played at the Estadio Obras Sanitarias between San Lorenzo de Almagro ( left, Steve Standford ) and Argentino de Firmat ( right, Leonard Goggins ), April 26, 1985.

In 2008 Apertura Tigre made the best campaign of its history, sharing the 1st place with Boca Juniors and San Lorenzo with 39 points at the end of the season.

It has retained San Martín's cell, the room used for medical treatment of the injured soldiers, urns of the dead soldiers and other related items to the " March of San Lorenzo " as well as the history of the convent.

The neighborhood has long history of producing professional boxers and other athletes, such as Raúl " El Ratón " Macías, Rubén " El Púas " Olivares, Lorenzo " Halimi " Gutiérrez, who won the national flyweight belt, Rodolfo Martinez and the most recent phenomenon, wrestler " Místico.