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The season for the 49ers ended with the Dallas Cowboys defeating the 49ers, 17-10, for the championship of the National Football Conference and a trip to Miami for the Super Bowl. It ended, for sentimentalists, in Kezar, which will be the 49ers' home no more. — Jan 3
Two 17,000 ton Standard Oil Co. tankers collided in zero-visibility fog just outside the Golden Gate Bridge and in the next few hours up to 1.9 million gallons of oil were spilled onto the Bay. The heavy black bunker fuel — a "gummy, gooey mass" — blackened the Bay shores at various spots. It lay along Bridgeway in Sausalito and the rocky shore of Angel Island. Wildlife was threatened, and conservationists set up bird-rescue teams. — Jan. 18
The first black pom pom girls will cheer the football and basketball teams next year at the University of California in Berkeley. — May 20
Supervisors' President Dianne Feinstein can't bring herself to support homosexual marriages, she told an audience of some 300 homosexuals last night. But, she declared at a meeting of SIR — the Society for Individual Rights — she is anxious to "help bring your community more into the mainstream of life here." — May 20
About 1000 of the 4500 youths attending a rock concert at Winterland Saturday night got stoned when someone spiked caldrons of water with LSD. — May 31
Farm-labor contractor Juan Corona accused of multiple murders near Yuba City: The orchard of death which has already yielded 23 bodies may never reveal all of its grim secrets. This is the opinion of Sheriff Roy D. Whiteaker, the man who has been leading the search for bodies for the past 11 days. — June 1
In record time, three-fourths of the states have approved Amendment No. 26 to the Constitution, extending the vote in state and local, as well as federal, elections to all Americans between 18 and 21 years of age. — July 1
America is a nation without a draft for the first time in 23 years due to a congressional deadlock over attempts to force U.S. withdrawal from Indochina. — July 1
Stiffly and silently, the life-sized mechanical doll mimics good-natured passersby to the amusement of Union Square shoppers and sun-lovers. Dressed in white pancake makeup, white gloves, and a black and beige toy soldier's uniform, Robert Shields performs daily — except Sunday — "to make people happy." — July 6
Three guards and four convicts, including George Jackson, one of the three Soledad Brothers, were shot and killed, and three officers were reported seriously wounded in one of the worst escape attempts in San Quentin Prison's history. — Aug. 22
San Francisco begins the nation's largest integration-through-busing program with parents keeping thousands of pupils away from schools. Opposition to the program is heaviest in Chinatown, where some buses have fewer than half a dozen passengers. — Sept. 13
Orioles beat Athletics in American League Championship Series, three games to none. — Oct. 5
Pirates beat Giants in National League Championship Series, three games to one. — Oct. 6
San Francisco voters re-elect Mayor Alioto, reject six-story height limit on future building, forbid Muni from cutting cable car schedules. — Nov. 3