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Niners take it all, 55-10: A 49ers victory parade will be held Monday afternoon for fans who want to welcome the team back from Sunday's Super Bowl romp over the Denver Broncos. — Jan. 29
At least nine earthquakes shook the Bay Area on the 84th anniversary of the 1906 quake that devastated The City. The larger shocks ranged from 3.5 to 5.4 on the Richter scale. — April 18
Shocked organizers of the Redwood Summer anti-logging protests contended that Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, two of their best-known leaders, could not have known about the bomb that blew up their car, injured both and put them under arrest as suspects. — May 25
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's breakneck visit to the Bay Area passed in a blur of speeches, handshakes and wildly cheering crowds, of high-stakes encounters with tycoons and politicians, of hooting protesters kept as far from the action as possible. — June 5
President Bush signed into law an act banning discrimination against the nation's 43 million handicapped people. The president likened the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to the dismantling of the Berlin Wall as a symbol of freedom for a once-oppressed people. — July 26
A standoff with union musicians led the San Francisco Opera management to cancel this weekend's performances, including the Friday night extravaganza that would have given opening-night patrons their annual opportunity to display the glitter of affluence. — Sept. 4
Sears on Geary Boulevard closes: The store of the 1950s has finally given up trying to sell suburban-family goods in a city short on Ozzie and Harriet households. — Sept. 15
President Bush visits San Francisco. Police arrest 84 protesters from among the boisterous group of demonstrators angry about our military presence in the Persian Gulf and a perceived lack of government commitment to the fight against AIDS. — Sept. 20
Members of the Board of Supervisors debated, sermonized and threw a slew of statistics at one another before narrowly passing a resolution calling for the demolition of the Embarcadero Freeway. — Sept. 25
The historic Durant Hotel in Berkeley became a bloody prison early Thursday for about 20 Henry's Bar patrons and employees taken hostage by a gunman who killed a UC-Berkeley student and wounded several others before being shot by police officers. — Sept. 27
Cincinnati Reds sweep Oakland A's in World Series. — Oct. 21