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UC-Berkeley's Naked Guy, who shocked students and administrators alike with his casual meanderings around campus in nothing but his sandals, is expelled. — Jan 26
Police spokeswoman Joanne Welsh, romantically involved with Supervisor Bill Maher, charges police Chief Tony Ribera with sexual harassment, setting off a year-long cause célèbre which Mayor Jordan dubs a "third-rate soap opera." — Feb. 12
Ismay, Montana, (population: 22) changes its name to Joe (but only during football season). — May 13
After protests and derision, Board of Supervisors removes poetry readings from list of entertainments requiring city licenses. — May 18
Freighter unloads 250 undocumented Chinese immigrants near Fort Point. Two-thirds of them are captured at dock, parking lot, Presidio, Lincoln Park golf course, and Sea Cliff and Marina neighborhoods. — May 24
Gunman with a grudge kills eight people and wounds six at 101 California law offices before shooting himself — the worst mass murder in San Francisco history. — July 1
Railroad car spews fuming sulfuric acid 15 miles over western Contra Costa County, sending 22,000 people to hospitals and medical centers, interrupting BART service and closing I-80. — July 26
Robert C. Maynard, mercurial editor who charted new frontiers for minority journalists and kept the old Oakland Tribune alive mostly with the sheer force of his will, is dead. — Aug. 18
Mayor Jordan dismisses Baptist preacher Eugene Lumpkin from Human Rights Commission for backing literal interpretation of Biblical passage advocating death for homosexuals. — Aug. 23
Mayor Jordan and supervisors' President Angela Alioto lobby furiously to get Chinese pandas for S.F. Zoo, but Rec and Park chief nixes idea: "We don't want pandas, we have no habitat for pandas, we can't take care of pandas." — Sept. 29
Voters approve measure to allow police officer Bob Geary to carry his ventriloquist's dummy, Brendan O'Smarty, with him on patrol. — Nov. 3
Supervisor Terence Hallinan's task force on prostitution floats idea of city-owned brothels to cut street crime and sexually transmitted disease. — Dec. 2
Richard Allen Davis has confessed to Petaluma police and the FBI that he acted alone in kidnapping and killing Polly Klaas. — Dec. 6
Glide Church holiday food giveaway draws throngs: Ten thousand men and women shivered in the morning chill in a line that snaked through eight blocks of the Tenderloin, a queue visible even from the $200-a-day rooms of nearby hotels. — Dec. 29