California · United States
Explore sourced Chaos Files connected to San Francisco.
6 mapped Files
6 March 1900–11 December 1902
San Francisco Chinatown, represented at Portsmouth Square, United States
The first documented locally acquired human plague infection in the continental United States was identified in San Francisco's Chinatown in March 1900. Public-health workers confronted a real …
18–21 April 1906
San Francisco and the San Andreas Fault rupture zone, United States
At 5:12 a.m. on 18 April, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake ruptured hundreds of kilometers of the San Andreas Fault. Severe shaking damaged communities across northern California. In …
22 July 1916
West side of Steuart Street just south of Market Street, United States
At 2:06 p.m. on 22 July 1916, a suitcase bomb exploded beside San Francisco's enormous Preparedness Day parade, killing ten people and wounding about forty. Labor activists …
5 July 1934
Former maritime union headquarters at Mission and Steuart Streets, United States
During the 1934 West Coast maritime strike, employers and city officials tried to reopen San Francisco's port with strikebreakers and police escorts. On 5 July, police fought …
20 November 1969–11 June 1971
Alcatraz Island, United States
On 20 November 1969, Native students and activists landed on vacant Alcatraz Island and claimed it as Indian Land. Calling themselves Indians of All Tribes, they demanded …
27 November 1978
San Francisco City Hall, United States
Former San Francisco supervisor Dan White entered City Hall on 27 November 1978 and shot Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk in their offices. Moscone had …