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Marching on City Hall, 500 unemployed dance-hall "instructors" — many with small children in tow — demand Mayor Rolph allow dance halls closed by the city to reopen. — Jan. 3
In the Rose Bowl, the Cal Bears demolish Ohio State, 28-0. Ohio State had only lost once in the previous four years. "Having seen this contest, your average football fan is willing to swear off hearafter (sic) if he must. For he has looked upon the quintesense (sic) of things and has found it good." — Jan. 2
Judge Isador M. Golden, of the city, attacks efforts to censor silent films. "Public opinion is being made the object of strangulation. This condition is intolerable. Its vice lies in the creation, in communities, of groups that seek to control public opinion and public expression of ideas." — March 1
The Navy is asked to help block liquor trade with Mexico after 200 barrels of whisky from San Francisco make it across the border for "non-beverage purposes ......... ostensibly to meet the call of the sick in Mexicali." — May 14
"The golf feminist has arrived in San Francisco!" heralds a story announcing the "debut on the local links yesterday" of knickers. The sartorial shift from skirts caused "a ripple, to be sure, but not the raised eyebrow and round mouthed 'Oh!' that greeted the introduction of bobbed hair, the casual cigarette, the abbreviated skirt, the plucked eyebrow and the fad for publicly applying lipstick and rouge." — June 28
William A. Hightower, an unemployed baker, tells the Archbishop he has clues to the whereabouts of kidnapped Colma priest Patrick E. Heslin. When church officials ignore him, Hightower leads Examiner reporters and policemen to Heslin's corpse, buried at Salada Beach (now Sharp Park in Pacifica). With the policemen's OK, Hightower and all Examiner employees are kept locked inside the paper until the next day's edition hits the streets to ensure the super scoop. — August 10
In what will evolve into 'The Trial of the Century," superstar comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle turns himself in at the Hall of Justice, charged with the murder of movie actress Virginia Rappe, who died of "peritonitis, superinduced by an internal injury" during a wild bash in Arbuckle's suite at the St. Francis Hotel. A nurse claims Rappe's dying words were, "Get Arbuckle; follow this through," and that Rappe said Arbuckle injured her with his weight during a sexual assault. — Sept. 11
After the Civic League of Improvement Clubs decides not to endorse Margaret Mary Morgan for supervisor because "the time was not ripe for the appearance of a woman as a candidate," columnist Annie Laurie lauds Morgan's "shrewd Irish wit, old-fashioned New England common sense and new-fashioned California liberality." A month later, Morgan becomes the first woman elected to the board. — Oct. 5
California's anti-Japanese Alien Land Law, passed by voters in November 1920, is deemed constitutional by a federal court. The law bars Japanese immigrants from buying land in the name of their American-born children. — Dec. 20