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800 |
Ohlone Indians occupied the cliffs near Mussel Rock, later Daly City, Ca., beginning from about this time. Links: USA, AmerIndian, Daly City 
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1498 |
Emperor Maximilian I relocated his court from Innsbruck to Vienna and brought along the court musicians. He also decided to include boy singers which gave rise to The Vienna Boys School and Choir. In 1918 the Austrian government took control of the court musicians, but not the boys choir, which became a private institution. The boys choir began to give public concerts in 1926. In 2007 the choir accepted its first African-born member, Jens Ibsen (12) of Daly City, Ca. Links: Austria, Kids, Daly City
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1856 |
A surveyor drew a line across the neck of the San Francisco peninsula marking the border between Daly City and San Francisco. Links: USA, SF, Daly City
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1874 |
A tunnel was carved through the solid Franciscan rock for Hibernia Bank cofounder Richard Tobin. He wanted to be able to ride his buggy back and forth between his family’s city home and their house in Rockaway Beach, Pacifica, south of Daly City. Nature delivered the coup de grace to Tobin’s Folly in 1906, when the SF earthquake reportedly knocked off most of the rock tunnel and threw it into the ocean. Links: USA, California, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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1895 |
In San Francisco a 3-story, Queen Anne style home was built at 900 Guerrero St. It was designed by Charles Havens for John Daly, the dairy farmer after whom Daly City is named. Links: USA, SF, Daly City
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1896 |
Henry Doelger (d.1978), SF and Daly City home builder, was born in SF. Links: USA, SF, Real Estate, Daly City
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1905 Sep 9 |
In Daly City, Ca., Battling Nelson, the "Durable Dane," kayoed Jimmy Britt in the 18th round at the Sickles St. Arena of James W. Coffroth. A film of the event recorded by the Miles Brothers made over $100,000. Links: USA, Boxing, Daly City
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1906 1916 |
In Daly City, Ca., businesses made gas out of oil at 731 Schwerin St. Links: USA, Oil, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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1908 |
Pacific Gas and Electric co. acquired a gas-making company in Daly City, Ca. Wastes contained lamp-black, a finely powdered carbon, and thick, sticky tars containing cancer-causing compounds. Links: USA, Environment, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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1938 Aug 15 |
Former SF Supervisor Andrew J. Gallagher, representing the directors of Agricultural District 1-A, said the “Int’l. Live Stock Show Pavilion” will hereafter be called “The Cow Palace.” The new building in Daly City opened in 1941. Links: USA, SF, Daly City
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1941 Nov 15 |
San Francisco’s Cow Palace opened in Daly City, Ca. Construction labor was largely supplied by the WPA. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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1944 |
The US Navy built the Midway Village housing complex in Daly City, Ca., next to the former PG&E gas plant site off Bayshore Blvd. Plant residues were used to fill the marshland of the complex site. Links: USA, Environment, SF Bay Area, Real Estate, Daly City
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1946 |
The US Grand National Rodeo began an uninterrupted string of yearly shows at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca. Links: USA, Daly City
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1949 Oct 14 |
Pat Valentino (1920-2008), SF boxer, was knocked out by Ezzard Charles in the 8th round at the Cow Palace in a boxing heavy-weight match before a crowd of 19,950. Links: USA, SF, Boxing, Daly City
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1954 |
John Madden, born in Minnesota, graduated from Jefferson High School in Daly City, Ca., after attending middle school at Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Links: USA, Minnesota, Football, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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1955 |
The US Navy turned over the Midway Village, Daly City, site to San Mateo County, Ca., for public housing and schools. Links: USA, Environment, SF Bay Area, Real Estate, Daly City
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1956 Aug 20 |
The Republican Convention opened at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca. Links: USA, Daly City
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1956 |
Bruno Scatena opened Joe’s of Westlake in Daly City, Ca. In 2013 the restaurant was sold to the Duggan family. Tony Rodin, the grandfather of John Duggan, had opened the first Original Joe’s on Taylor St. in SF in 1937. In 1939 Rodin partnered with Scatena to open Original Joe’s No. 2 at Chestnut and Fillmore. Links: USA, SF, Daly City
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1958 Apr 27 |
Billy Graham began a 6-week Bay Area crusade at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca. Some 18,000 crowded inside as another 5,000 stood in the parking lot. Graham began a 3-day revival crusade at the Cow Palace that drew nearly 700,000 people. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Religion, Daly City
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1960 Nov 2 |
Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy told an audience of 20,000 at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca., that the US should establish a Peace Corps. The idea was first presented 3 weeks earlier at the Univ. of Michigan. Links: USA, KennedyJ, Daly City
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1962 Jan 21 |
Snow fell in the SF Bay Area and accumulated to about 3 inches in Daly City and San Francisco. This was the heaviest local snowfall since 1887. Links: USA, SF, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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1962 Oct 23 |
The San Francisco Warriors played their first game at the Cow Palace in Daly City. The game was pushed back to 9 p.m. in hopes that a boxing match at Candlestick Park between Gene Fullmer and Dick Tiger would end early. The match went a full 12 rounds. The Cow Palace was less than half full as some 5,215 spectators watched Wilt Chamberlain score 56 points and lead the Warriors to a 140-113 victory over the Detroit Pistons. Links: USA, Daly City
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1962 Nov |
Joseph J. Verducci began serving another term as mayor of Daly City, Ca. Links: USA, Daly City
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1962 |
Franklin Mieuli (1920-2010), SF Bay Area radio and TV producer, brought the Warriors basketball team from Philadelphia to SF with superstar Wilt Chamberlain. Mr. Mieuli and 32 partners purchased the Warriors from Eddie Gottlieb for $850,000. The SF Warriors basketball team chose the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca., as its new arena. In 1986 Mieuli sold his share in the team to Jim Fitzgerald for a reported $16-19 million. Links: California, SF, Basketball, Daly City
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1962 |
Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978) wrote her song: "Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky tacky..." She came up with the song when she saw the housing developments around Daly City, California built in the post-war era by Henry Doelger, particularly the neighborhood of Westlake. The song became a hit for her friend Pete Seeger in 1963. Links: USA, Pop&Rock, Daly City
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1963 |
In Daly City, Ca., the First National Bank of Daly City opened. It was later renamed the First National Bank of Northern California. Links: USA, Daly City
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1964 Jul 15 |
The Republican National Convention was held at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca. It elected Barry Goldwater as its presidential candidate. John Chancellor was ejected from the convention for blocking an aisle during a demonstration by the delegates. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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1964 Jul 16 |
In accepting the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco (Cow Palace – Daly City), Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona said "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" and that "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." Links: USA, SF, Quote, Daly City
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1964 Aug 19 |
The Beatles performed a concert at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca. They played ten songs to a crowd of over 17,000. The Beatles returned there for another concert in 1965. Links: USA, Pop&Rock, Daly City
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1965 Aug 31 |
The Beatles returned to the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca., for another concert. Links: USA, Pop&Rock, Daly City
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1967 Aug 15 |
The price of a haircut in San Francisco went up 25 cents to $2.75. The barber’s union announced the same increase for Daly City, South San Francisco, San Bruno and Millbrae. Links: USA, SF, SF Bay Area, Hair, Daly City
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1968 Sep |
In Daly City, Ca., the community of St. Andrew was founded with Father James Moher as pastor with a predominantly Filipino congregation. In July of 1975 a parish church was completed at 1571 Southgate Ave. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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1970 Jan 23 |
Evel Knievel made a motorcycle jump over parked cars and trucks at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca. Links: USA, Jumper, Daly City
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1973 Nov |
In the SF Bay Area BART opened transportation service in Daly City. Links: USA, Daly City
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1973 |
David Pelzer (12) was rescued from horrifying family abuse that included starvation and physical beating. In 1998 his 2 books, based on his childhood in Daly City, Ca., made the NY Times best-seller list: "A Child Called It" and "A Lost Boy." His father was a SF fireman and his mother was a homemaker with 4 other sons who were spared the abuse. Links: USA, California, Kids, Daly City
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1974 Feb 4 |
Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst (b.1954) was kidnapped in Berkeley, Ca., by a left-wing urban guerrilla group called the Symbionese Liberation Army. The kidnappers included Angela Atwood, Bill Harris and Donald DeFreeze. Her boyfriend Steven Weed was beaten and she was held for 4½ weeks at 37 Northridge Drive in Daly City. Patty was then taken to 1827 Golden Gate Ave, apt. #6, in San Francisco and held for another four weeks. Hearst then joined the underground revolutionary group. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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1976 Apr 1 |
Denise Lampe (19) of Broadmoor failed to meet a friend and was found fatally stabbed to death in the parking lot of the Serramonte Center mall in Daly City, Ca. In 2017 DNA evidence led police to charge Leon Melvin Seymour (71), already being held in Coalinga State Hospital as an inmate-patient. Links: USA, Murder, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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1976 Nov 28 |
Elvis Presley preformed a concert at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca. Links: USA, Pop&Rock, Daly City
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1976 |
Harry Flamburis, president of the SF chapter of the Hell’s Angels, was found shot to death in his Daly City house along with roommate Dannette Barrett. Links: USA, SF, Murder, Daly City
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1976 |
San Mateo County, Ca., rebuilt the military housing by the PG&E plant east of Cow Palace in Daly City with a housing complex of 150 units called Midway Village. The units stood over toxic soil from PG&E that was used by the military during WW II as land fill. Dirt and groundwater in the area contained polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PNAs), a known carcinogen. No soil tests were conducted. Links: USA, Environment, SF Bay Area, Real Estate, Daly City
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1979 |
Mike Nevin (1943-2012) became a Daly City planning commissioner. He was elected to the Daly City Council in 1982 and served as mayor in 1984 and 1989. In 1992 he was elected to the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors and during 12 years on that board served as board president in 1997 and 2001. Links: USA, Daly City
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1980 |
In Daly City PG&E workers first complained to the US EPA about chemicals uncovered during construction at the Martin Service Center. Links: USA, Environment, Daly City
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1984 |
Richard Sims (1933-2008) was named chief of police for Daly City, Ca. Sims retired in 1990 following a 34 year career in the city’s police department. Links: USA, Daly City
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1985 |
An arson fire at Westmoor High School in Daly City, Ca., caused $1 million in damage. Links: USA, Fire, Daly City
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1985 |
Mary Mahoney (d.1997 at 82), SF nurse, wrote "Reflections on Mary’s Help Hospital and Seton Medical Center." Mary’s Help Hospital on Guerrero St. moved to what is now Seton Medical Center in Daly City in the 1960s. Links: USA, SF, Books, Daly City
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1989 Mar 12 |
In the SF Bay Area two hikers found the sexually assaulted body of Sheila Lorraine Hatcher (27), a Daly City resident, in a ravine on San Bruno Mountain. In 2014 police arrested Gabriel O’Neill (45) of Brisbane after DNA evidence linked him to the case. In 2017 Gabriel Ray O’Neill (48) of Brisbane was found not guilty following nearly a month-long trial. His DNA had been found on the victim. Links: USA, Murder, DNA, SF Bay Area, Daly City, Rape
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1990 Sep |
San Mateo County, Ca., and PG&E held a public meeting to tell residents of Daly City’s Midway Village about the contaminated soil on the site. Residents wee informed that toxic wastes have been found in about one of every four of the buildings. Links: USA, Environment, SF Bay Area, Real Estate, Daly City
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1990 Nov |
San Mateo County, Ca., hired contractors to remove some of the soil from Midway Village in Daly City and to cap some areas with concrete patios. Links: USA, Environment, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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1991 Oct 5 |
The San Jose Sharks opened local play at the Cow Palace in Daly City while they awaited the building of an arena in San Jose, Ca. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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1992 Sep |
The Mini-Museum of Daly City, operated by the History Guild of Daly City, was dedicated in the Serramonte Library. It was open every Tuesday afternoon 1-2:30. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Daly City, Museum
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1997 |
In California a San Mateo County Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by 195 residents and former residents of Daly City’s Midway Village, who claimed they deserved compensation from PG&E and the county housing department. The court said plaintiffs had not established that exposure to toxic waste had caused their illnesses. Links: USA, Environment, SF Bay Area, Lawsuit, Daly City
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1998 Mar 23 |
In Daly City, Ca., three children were found dead by their grandparents in the bedroom of their home on Higate Drive. Their mother, Megan Hogg (25), was taken to Seton Medical Center where she was treated and released. Hogg was later arrested for killing her 3 daughters, aged 2-7. She pleaded no contest to 3 counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in 1999. Links: USA, Murder, Daly City
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2001 May 21 |
The body of Quetzalcoatl Alba (15) was found in a storage room in the carport area of the Park Plaza Drive apartment complex in Daly City, Ca. Suspects Carlos Maldonado Erick Morales Murder denied involvement and left the area. In 2007 police found evidence of the crime and tracked down Carlos Maldonado in Miami. He attempted to escape police on arrival at the SF Airport and jumped a railing plunging 25 feet to the arrival area of the airport, suffering serious, but non-life threatening injuries. In 2009 police arrested Erick Morales (25) in NY state and planned to extradite him to San Mateo. Links: USA, California, Murder, Teens Amuck, Daly City
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2002 Jun 7 |
The dismembered body of Xiu Li Jiang (22) was found in a Shurgard storage locker in Daly City, Ca. She had been reported missing in SF in Jan 1999. In 2006 Bobby Tran was sentenced 30 years in prison for her murder. [See SF, Jan 10, 1999] Links: USA, California, SF, Murder, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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2002 |
The Brisbane, California, Educational Support Team (BEST) commissioned a mural as a fundraiser for local schools. It was designed and painted by Mona Caron. The main image shows the local native flora, with San Bruno Mountain in the background. Links: USA, California, Daly City
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2004 Mar 25 |
Lawrence May (48), a Daly City methamphetamine user, stabbed his wife Sharen May (40) over 100 times with scissors to death in San Mateo, Ca., following a divorce mediation session. In 2006 May was sentenced to life in prison. Links: USA, California, Murder, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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2005 Mar 21 |
Justin Mendoza of Daly City was shot and killed outside the Café Cocomo nightclub in SF. In 2008 Gerry Phongboupha (25) was convicted of 1st degree murder and other charges in connection to Mendoza’s murder. Links: USA, SF, Murder, Daly City
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2005 Jul 25 |
San Leandro, Ca., police officer Nels Niemi was shot and killed by a convicted methamphetamine user. Police arrested Irving Alexander Ramirez the next day in Daly City. In 2007 Ramirez was convicted of first-degree murder. On Aug 3 he was sentenced to die by lethal injection. In 2021 the state Supreme Court upheld the death sentence. Links: California, Murder, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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2006 Jul 22 |
Tamika Mack Norton (31), the wife of Quincy Norton Sr. (32), was stabbed to death at her home in Daly City, Ca. Norton was arrested a month later and charged with her murder. In 2008 he was convicted of murder after his sons testified against him, but the conviction was overturned on the grounds that his defense attorney was incompetent. In 2009 a new trial date was set. In 2010 Norton was again convicted of 1st degree murder and faced 26 years to life in prison. Links: USA, Murder, Daly City
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2006 Dec 24 |
Alex Nuevo (44), a flight atendant for United Airlines, was shot to death outside his in-law unit in Daly City, Ca. Links: USA, California, Murder, Daly City
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