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Stanford University's only coed fraternity resigned its national charter after refusing to expel its women members or reinstate traditional "rush" activities. — Jan. 12
The Board of Supervisors shot down a proposal that would have required convicted prisoners to help pay for their room and board at the county's jails. — Feb. 1
Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit for a state dinner with President Reagan. They enjoy an impromptu dinner at Trader Vic's and catch a bit of "Beach Blanket Babylon" at Davies Hall. After meeting Mayor Feinstein and a string of female supervisors, Prince Philip asks: "Aren't there any male officials? ......... This is a nanny city." — March 3
Recall attempt fails: Mayor Feinstein, riding an 80 percent anti-recall vote, vowed that if anyone challenges her November bid for re-election, "We'll cream them." — April 27
Rescue workers, using trained search dogs and bulldozers, probed the shambles that was downtown Coalinga, increasingly confident that the second major earthquake to smack this little oil town in eight months miraculously took no lives. — May 3
A vote on the MX missile will be one of the first tough issues facing Sala Burton following her "bittersweet" victory for the congressional seat of her late husband, Phillip Burton. — June 22
Crockett man catches record 468-pound, nine-foot-long sturgeon off Benicia. — July 11
According to the FBI, about a third of the Russians who work under diplomatic cover in the red-brick fortress in Pacific Heights known as the Soviet Consulate are probably intelligence agents stealing American military and industrial secrets. — Aug. 21
All hope for a peaceful, political solution to the decade-old civil turmoil in the Philippines died with the last breath of Benigno Aquino, assassinated on a Manila runway, Aquino's allies fear. San Francisco publisher Alex Esclamado declares: "Things have reached the explosion point." — Aug. 22
"Have voice, will travel": S.F. Opera charters a jet to fly tenor Placido Domingo from New York to substitute for voiceless Carlo Cossutta in opening-night of Verdi's "Otello." Performance starts at 10:30 p.m., runs until 2 a.m. — Sept. 10
In 1937, before freeways, timed traffic signals and one-way streets, there were 182,597 vehicles registered in The City. As of December last year there were nearly 400,000 — 294,324 of them automobiles." — Oct. 4
Justice Department asks Federal District Court in San Francisco to reverse 1942 conviction of Fred Korematsu for defying the government's wartime evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans. — Oct. 5
San Francisco businesses have three months to clear the smoke from their offices. Proposition P, the tough smoking law, was finally declared a winner last night by a whisker-thin margin, 50.4 to 49.6 percent. — Nov. 10