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A fleet of 71 dual-hinged rail transit cars for use on the Municipal Railway subway and surface lines was recommended by the City Public Utilities Commission. Running time from The Embarcadero to West Portal, engineering consultant Louis T. Klauder estimated, would be cut from 35 to 14 minutes. — Jan. 21
Settlement of the strike of City employees that has crippled San Francisco for the past four days was reached after an all-night negotiating session. The Municipal Railway remained paralyzed throughout the morning, but began rolling around noon. Schools were kept open on an irregular and spotty basis. — March 16
The people of Earth paused for the first time in their long history to pay collective tribute to the planet on which they live. Centered in the Bay Area, where the two national founders of the movement were making appearances, Earth Day observances cut across all levels of student activities. — April 22
The United States announces it has authorized U.S. military advisers to serve with South Vietnamese troops in Cambodia and has also agreed to provide air and artillery support. — April 29
Four students — two of them women — were killed and at least 11 wounded by gunfire as Ohio National Guardsmen broke up an unauthorized anti-war rally on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. — May 4
A full-fledged strike was in effect at Stanford University — and scattered incidents of violence occurred this afternoon on the campuses at the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State. — May 4
Several hundred New Mobe (New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam) demonstrators forced their way into the City Hall rotunda, chanting obscene Nixon epithets in protest over the Cambodian invasion. Demonstrators, led to the rotunda by attorney Terence Hallinan, scuffled with members of the police tactical squad. — May 4
Four persons — a Marin County Superior Court judge, two San Quentin convicts and a gunman who tried to free them — were shot and killed in the failure of an elaborately planned escape attempt at the Frank Lloyd Wright Civic Center north of San Rafael. Three women jurors, an assistant district attorney and another convict were wounded. They were taken to Marin General Hospital — the prosecutor and the convict in critical condition. — Aug. 7
A huge, wind-whipped forest fire engulfs an exclusive residential district high in the East Bay Hills and rages on unchecked through tinder-dry eucalyptus. Thirty-seven residences are destroyed and 12 damaged above the Hotel Claremont on the Oakland-Berkeley line. — Sept. 22
Almost 1,500 persons, old and young, Catholic, Jewish, Protestant and otherwise, got up before dawn to attend the first Mass in St. Mary's Cathedral. — Oct. 15
Hundreds of office workers evacuated the towering Bank of America World Headquarters skyscraper when fire broke out on the 35th floor. — Nov. 18
A mass demonstration protesting the presence of South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky at the Fairmont Hotel broke up this afternoon in scattered scenes of violent disorder. Roving bands of dissidents — mostly young persons — stoned police, smashed some car and residence windows, started fires, tipped over at least one automobile, smashed bus windows and tried to take over cable cars. — Dec. 1