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Capital punishment in California is unconstitutional, the State Supreme Court rules. — Feb. 18
Sausalito voters elect former madam Sally Stanford to the City Council on her sixth try. "Sinners never give up," she said triumphantly. — April 12
Angela Davis' jury in San Jose apparently had almost no trouble at all in deciding she was not guilty of murder, kidnap and conspiracy charges. She was charged as an absent accomplice in the fatal 1970 attempt to kidnap Marin County Judge Harold P. Haley, Assistant District Attorney Gary W. Thomas and three woman jurors and hold them as ransom for the release of the Soledad Brothers, particularly George Jackson. — June 5
A new San Francisco-Oakland bridge — the Southern Crossing — will not be built after residents of six Bay Area counties defeated Proposition "A" yesterday by a margin of 3 to 1. — June 7
Three-hour lines at voting booths: San Francisco's monumental election foul-up had top officials — with the wisdom of hindsight — looking for ways to prevent it from happening again. — June 7
It wasn't Middletown, U.S.A. For some, it wasn't even San Francisco. It was The City's first-ever Gay Parade. Costumed in an array of paint and polish, over 1000 gays wound their way through downtown San Francisco, past topless-bottomless joints, bookstores offering the works of Harold Robbins, and pick-up bars, symbols of other more established forms of sexual preference. — June 26
For the Jews — who will usher in the Hebrew Year 5733 at sundown — the services at Temple Emanu-El last night were different and yet agonizingly and historically familiar. What might have festively heralded the 10-day Rosh Hashana period and its climactic Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, was instead a memorial service of mourning for the 11 murdered Israeli Olympians. — Sept. 8
BART opens: Trains of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System begin carrying passengers along its new 28-mile Oakland-Fremont line. — Sept. 11
One BART car ran off the end of the track at Fremont in the system's first major accident. Five people suffered minor injuries. — Oct. 2
UC Berkeley sociologist debunks myth of San Franciscans as hard drinkers. High per capita consumption is caused by tourists and commuters drinking here, she says, and high cirrhosis rate is result of coroner' s office conducting autopsies on 99 percent of its cases. — Oct. 22
Athletics take World Series from Cincinnati, four games to three: By the time the new world champions of baseball touched down aboard a World Airways charter flight, there were 20,000 revelers filling the airport terminal and overflowing on to the apron of the landing strip. Crowd is four times larger than the one that greeted President Nixon at Oakland Airport four weeks earlier and nearly twice as large as the A's average attendance for 1972. — Oct. 23
President Nixon re-elected in landslide. California voters pass coastal protection and restore death penalty, but reject marijuana decriminalization. — Nov. 8
Wine, women and song in the tradition-bound Faculty Club of the University of California at Berkeley? The former stronghold of male supremacy that has previously served only wine and beer has now voted to admit women to its ranks and has been granted a full liquor cabinet besides. — Dec. 3
Snow powders The City: Twin Peaks had it; so did the Richmond, Sunset and Haight-Ashbury districts and Golden Gate Park. Neighbors bundled up and turned out to make snowballs. It was so cold that it stuck, lying about an inch deep in some places. White patches remained well after daybreak. — Dec. 8