Top 10 Top 10 Scandals and Disasters
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1. Native Americans’ Near-Extinction
In the late 1800s Native Americans were hunted down by settlers, with a bounty paid for each scalp.
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2. Gold Rush Lawlessness
Gold Rush frontier life was so criminal that vigilante justice was proclaimed in the 1850s, leading to secret trials.
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3. 1906
The earthquake and consequent fire devastated much of the city, and 250,000 people were left homeless.
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4. “Bloody Thursday”
On July 5, 1934, police fired shots at striking longshoremen, leaving two dead.
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5. Howl
On October 13, 1955, Allen Ginsberg read his revolutionary poem in San Francisco, which was later banned as obscene.
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6. Freedom & Anti-War
Pro-Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War riots occurred from 1964 to 1970
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7. Rock Icons Die
Part of hippie legend, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix died of heroin overdoses in 1970.
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8. White’s Revenge
In 1978 ex-Supervisor Dan White shot dead Mayor George Moscone and gay Supervisor Harvey Milk (see Harvey Milk).
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9. AIDS
The AIDS epidemic reached overwhelming proportions in the city in the 1980s.
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10. Loma Prieta Earthquake
In October 1989, the quake destroyed the Victorian center of Santa Cruz and part of the Bay Bridge.
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