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Supervisors pass ordinance banning anti-gay discrimination in housing, jobs and public accommodations. Supervisor Dan White casts the only dissenting vote. — March 21
The man who plunged 27 stories down a shaft inside the Transamerica Pyramid is in satisfactory condition and "talking rationally." ......... When he dashed by the guard in the lobby of the Pyramid to make his ascent, he shouted, "I want to see the man at the top. I want to see God!" — April 2
A baby girl was born on a bus near 19th and Castro streets last night, delivered by a safe-driving Muni driver who learned his midwife techniques on television. The Anchor Oyster Bar provided towels. — May 12
Gay-rights bill defeated by Eugene, Ore., voters. As after similar recent losses in St. Paul, Minn., and Wichita, Kans., thousands of gays and lesbians march peacefully in San Francisco. — May 24
"We, the taxpayers, have spoken," thundered Howard Jarvis. State voters pass Jarvis-Gann initiative, Proposition 13, sharply cutting property taxes and local-government budgets. — June 7
The Supreme Court orders the University of California at Davis to admit Allan Bakke to its medical school, ruling that he had suffered illegal discrimination because he is white. But the court says race can be taken into account in college admissions programs. — June 28
After 15 years of delays resulting from lawsuits and civic dissension, Mayor George Moscone breaks ground for Yerba Buena convention center. — Aug. 11
More than half the 493 protesters arrested after two days of demonstrations at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant have been released and are planning more demonstrations today. — Aug. 8
San Francisco Catholics mourn Pope John Paul I. Archbishop John R. Quinn expresses shock: "The grief is compounded because of the nearness of the death of Pope Paul" just 53 days earlier. — Sept. 29
California voters reject Briggs initiative: The measure even receives a thumping defeat in Orange County, stronghold of Fullerton Republican state Sen. John Briggs, who sponsored the attempt to bar homosexual teachers from state schools. — Nov. 8
Rep. Leo Ryan and three other persons were ambushed and killed as they waited to board an airplane near the Peoples Temple jungle mission at Jonestown, Guyana. Among the dead: Examiner photographer Greg Robinson. — Nov. 19
The death toll in the mass ritual suicide-murder at Jonestown reached 912. — Nov. 26
Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk are shot and killed at City Hall, and troubled ex-Supervisor Dan White is booked for investigation on two counts of murder. — Nov. 27
Dianne Feinstein is elected mayor of San Francisco by a 6-to-2 vote of the Board of Supervisors. — Dec. 4