March. 7 1974
Commenting on the SLA's Patricia Hearst ransom demand of free food for the poor,
California's Gov. Ronald Reagan says, "It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism."
March 8, 1968
Love
Congress of Wonders
The Sons of Champlin
Avalon Ballroom
Artist: Stanley Mouse
March 8, 1999
Joe Di Maggio, died at his Hollywood, Florida, home, at the age of 84.
He was a one of America's greatest baseball players, and was born
November 24, 1914, in Martinez, across the bay from San Francisco.
His family then moved to San Francisco's North Beach, and young
Di Maggio spent his early years here in San Francisco.
March 9, 1998
The bicycle bandits, Edwin James Rowan III (39) and Raymond V.
Lopez (46)
were arrested after robbing the California Federal Savings Bank
on the 4000
block of Geary. They were suspected of robbing 12 North Bay banks
and using bikes as get-away vehicles.
March 10, 1854
Dr. Dickson of the Marine Hospital
killed in a Sacramento duel.
March 10, 1986
Protesters block unloading of South African ship in San Francisco to protest apartheid.
March 10, 1987
United Nations( originated in San Francisco) Human Rights Commission recognizes
conscientious objection to military service as a human right.
March 11, 1966
Timothy Leary sentenced in Texas to 30 years in prison for trying to
cross into Mexico as a tourist with his daughter, 18 who had ten dollars
worth of marijuana on her. Tim immediately took the blame which the
police were all too happy to accept. His daughter was sentenced to five years.
Leary Astrology chart and bio
March 11, 1967
Jefferson Airplane plays The Fillmore Auditorium
Hear this Jefferson Airplane concert courtesy of Wolf gang's Vault
March 11, 1976
Cesar Chavez ends 23-day fast for US farm workers.
Mar 11, 2001
A 3-day memorial service began for the homeless, who died in SF since
tracking began in 1987. 1,767 people were listed on a plaque.
March 11, 2004
The California Supreme Court halted gay weddings in San Francisco for
at least a few months while it decides whether they are legal.
March.12 1922
Birth of Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), Lowell, Massachusetts. Novelist/poet,
leading figure and spokesman of the Beat Generation. Best known for
"On the Road" (1957)
-- written in three weeks.
March. 12 1930
Gandhi's Salt March begins; march from Ahmadabad to Delhi, India,
in protest against salt tax. Quotes by Gandhi
March 12, 1966
The Charlatans, Sopwith Camel @ and The Sopwith Camel
and Duncans Blue Boy & His Cosmic Yo-Yo appeared in the
The Alligator Clip Show at the Firehouse Theatre in San Francisco
March 14, 1851
Foreign Miners Tax, designed to discourage Chinese gold mining, was repealed.
March 14, 1879
Birth of Albert Einstein, scientist and pacifist. Einstein Quotes
March 13, 1969
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jethro Tull
Sanpaku
Fillmore West
Artist: Randy Tuten
Hear this Creedance Clearwater Revival Concert courtesy of Wolfgang's Vault
March 14, 2003:
Police arrested 80 anti-war protesters in the SF financial district.
They included Warren Langley, former head of the Pacific Exchange
and former Lt. Col of the US Air Force for fifteen years.
March 15, 1848
"The Californian" reported gold was discovered along the American
River at a sawmill owned by Capt. John A. Sutter.
News was not widely believed in San
Francisco.
March 15, 1849
Gen. Smith, military commander of California,
declared the Yerba Buena
harbor to be poor because the seas are too rough and it is located on a
peninsula with little
water and few food supplies.
March 15, 1966
Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General of the State of California,
condemned the use of LSD and other drugs in a statement to
the State Senate
Judiciary Committee in Sacramento.
March 15, 1968
Blood, Sweat and Tears
John Handy
Avalon Ballroom
Artist: Stanley Mouse
Mar 15, 1999
The SF Supervisors approved a ban on new liquor stores in the
28
-block Tenderloin area bounded by Post, Polk, Golden Gate, and Taylor
Streets.
Mar 15, 2003
Many thousands of anti-war demonstrators marched in SF,
Washington DC
and around the world.
Mar. 16, 2003:
Over 5,000 coordinated candlelight vigils take place, in more than 125
countries, in a last-ditch protest against a U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Mar 17, 1959:
The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border
into India and is granted political asylum.
Mar 17, 1997
The US Supreme Court declined to hear the City's argument that
the
cross on Mt. Davidson is
a cultural landmark. The cross would now
have to be torn down or sold to a
private owner.
Mar 17, 2007
The 12th annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, San Francisco County Fair Building (Golden Gate Park). Films, speakers, panel discussions, exhibits, kids & family space, & cafe lunches. Due to public demand & continually increasing turnout (last year there were over 5000 people), this year the bookfair is extended to two days: Chris Carlsson, Ward Churchill, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, James Kelman, Saul Landau, Josh Macphee, & many other speakers. Panels include Strategies to Uproot War & Empire, The Future of Radical Print Publications, & The Future of Independent & Radical Bookselling. Admission is free.
March 18, 1848
"California Star"
reported that non-Native population of San Francisco
was 575 males, 177 females and 60 children.
Mar. 18, 1968:
At 3 AM, the staff of San Francisco's "progressive" rock station KMPX-FM
walks out on strike citing a lack of control over programming and "hassles over
the whole long-hair riff." Performers like the Rolling Stones, Joan Baez,
the Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Dead request the station not play
their music as long as the station is run by strikebreakers.
Mar. 18, 1970:
Country Joe McDonald is convicted for obscenity and fined $500 for leading
a crowd in his infamous Fish Cheer ("Gimmie an F..!") at a concert in Massachusetts.
Visit the Country Joe' great website
Mar 18, 1998
The SPCA offered nighttime shelter for about a dozen homeless
people at its Pet Adoption Center.
March 19, 1966
Big Brother and the Holding Company appeared at the Fire House.
Sgt. Barry
Sadler, who was to entertain, could not attend.
March 19, 1968
Chuck Berry - guitar, vocals-Steve Miller - guitar, harmonica
Jim Peter man - keyboards - Lonnie Turner - bass and
Tim Davis - drums with play the Fillmore Auditorium
Hear this Chuck Berry concert courtesy of Wolfgang's Vault
March 19, 2003
Among the thousands of demonstrations world wide, anti-war
Direct Action shuts down Market Street in San Francisco
Mar 19, 2004
The SF budget was projected to have a deficit of $352 million.
This was in part due to a payroll that grew 54% under Mayor Brown.
March 20, 1969
Janis Joplin
Savoy Brown
Aum
@ Winterland
Artist: D. Bread
Randy Tuten
Janis' return to San Francisco
Mar. 20, 1976
Patricia "Tania" Hearst convicted of bank robbery.
Mar. 20, 1996
Twenty-five arrested at Dept. of Justice in Washington, D.C., and 27 others in
San Francisco, during protests demanding freedom for Leonard Peltier.
Mar. 20, 2003
United States and U. K., in defiance of the United Nations and global opinion,
launch an unprovoked invasion of Iraq. Massive protests immediately begin worldwide.
In one day, over 1,500 people are arrested in San Francisco, and civil disobedience actions also paralyze downtown highways in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and numerous other U.S. cities. Up to 1400 anti-war protesters were arrested in SF.
Mar 20, 2004
Thousands of anti-war demonstrators marched
from Dolores Park
to the Civic Center.
March 21, 1963
Alcatraz the world's most secure prison, closes. Only one man ever
escaped the island in San Francisco Bay in 30 years
-- only to be arrested when reaching the mainland.
Mar 21, 1966
SF Supervisors Defeat Freeway Plans.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors defeat the Panhandle and Golden Gate Freeways.
After many years, San Francisco's Freeway Crisis has come to an end.
March 21, 1969
S.F. State College strike ended.
Mar 21, 1998
Six members of the SF-based Peace workers group
were arrested and
sentenced to 10 days in jail in Kosovo for not reporting
their presence
to police. 3 were from the Bay Area.
March 22, 1966
Sopwith Camel appears at the Matrix in the Marina
District
March 22, 1968
President's daughter, Lynda Bird Johnson, ordered off cable car for eating ice
cream cone.
March 22, 1972: Thirteen member National Commission on Marijuana
and Drug Abuse recommends legalization of marijuana.
March 23, 1872
"Emperor"Joshua A. Norton is often credited with the idea of bridging the bay
between San
Francisco and Oakland. His most famous decree March 23, 1872
which ordered
construction of a bridge between Oakland Point and Goat Island,
was apparently
based upon concepts outlined in several newspaper articles during
the early
1870s. Charles Crocker of the Central Pacific Railroad had earlier
proposed a
railroad bridge from Oakland to San
Francisco via Goat Island.
Mar 23, 1975
The San Francisco City Budget had cut funds for after school activities.
S.N.A.C.K. Students Need Athletics, Culture, And Kicks, was a Bill Graham
project to give back to the San Francisco community. In one day it raised enough
money to keep extracurricular activities going in San Francisco schools for one year.
Tour/Show: SNACK Concert
The performers: The Doobie Brothers , Mimi Farina, Jefferson Starship,
Jerry Garcia & Friends, The Miracles, Joan Baez, Santana, Tower of Power,Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead and more.
@ Kezar Stadium San Francisco
Artist: Randy Tuten
March 23, 1983:
In his "Star Wars" speech, Pres. Ronald Reagan proposes a space-based system
to blast incoming missiles out of the sky -- just like the 1940 film "Murder in the Air,"
whose hero, Secret Service Agent Brass Bancroft (played by Ronald Reagan!),
gets involved with the "Inertia Projector," a death ray that can zap planes.
Mar. 24, 1919
Birth of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet/painter/beat/publisher and
founder of San Francisco's influential City Lights bookstore.
Yonkers, New York. Among
other accomplishments, Ferlinghetti
was the first to publish Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl," an act
immediately resulting in his arrest
(and eventual acquittal) on obscenity charges.
March 25, 1848
News item in the "California Star" about the discovery of gold did
not stir excitement in San Francisco.
Mar. 25, 1916
Ishi dies, last of his California-based Yahi Yana, his Native American tribe
in Northern
California. Captured in 1911, he had escaped from settlers who
exterminated the rest of the Yahis,
along with the elk they had hunted, only
to spend his last years in captivity, studied by
anthropologists as a freakish curiosity.
Mar. 25, 1955
U.S. Customs confiscate 520 copies of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" as they
enter the U.S.
It will then be published by City Lights publishers in
San Francisco, leading to the
arrest of publisher (and prominent poet)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Customs also seized
and destroyed another
shipment of Ginsberg's poetry sent from Canada in the 60s.
Mar 25, 1966
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Quicksilver Messenger Service
@Fillmore Auditorium
Artist: Wes Wilson
March 26, 1847
Capt. John L. Folsom arrived as quartermaster of Stevenson's regiment. Folsom St.
was later named for him.
March 26, 1874
Robert Frost, born in San Francisco. beloved American poet awarded Pulitzer Prize four times.
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"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. "
~ Robert Frost, from 'The Road Not Taken', (1916)
March 26, 1882
Young Oscar Wilde arrives by train in San Francisco.
He had been the center
of a maelstrom of scandalous incident and publicity from
the moment of his
arrival in early January 1882. There was a sudden exaggerated
vogue of
sunflowers, lilies, and Japanese parasols–all of which were said
to evoke
Wilde's enthusiasm.
Newspaper reporters outdid themselves in
ridiculing the twenty-eight-year-old
"lecturer"; cartoonists
pounced upon him with a fervor less brutal than gleeful;
women draped themselves
about the new "lion"; and the few men who found
something sensible
and telling in Wilde's advice and pronouncements on art
and
decoration were unheard for the most part in the paen of masculine denunciation.
The costume adopted by young Wilde, which included
short breeches,
long silk stockings, and a shoulder-length haircut, was
hailed with horror
and amazed contempt by young dandies educated to long tight
trousers,
high stiff collars, and full mustaches.
March 26,1967
Easter Sunday Hippie. Uprising on Haight Street. Digger provocation
& spontaneous group action fuels the situation, hundreds of hippies
take over Haight Street & tie up traffic for three hours in San Francisco
Mar. 27, 1942
Seeing the unworkability of his plan to allow Japanese-Americans to leave
the Pacific Coast of their own accord (most of the Nisei were turned back
at whatever state line they happened to reach, or were attacked by hostile
mobs once they did manage to find a new home.) Lt. General John DeWitt
ended the voluntary policy of evacuation. Two days letter, a more "practical"
policy, forced evacuation and interment, officially took effect.
March 27, 1969
John Mayall
Bo Diddley
Muddy Waters
Tour/Show: Winterland Presents
@Winterland
Artist: Greg Irons
Mar 28, 1967
The Chambers Brothers
Tour/Show: Neon Rose #12
Matrix
Artist: Victor Moscoso
March 29, 1856
Clipper ship "Nightingale" sailed from London
to
San Francisco in 121 days, a
world record.
March 29,1964
534 Broadway
Lenny Bruce, wearing only his birthday suit fell out of the Swiss American
Hotel`s second story window into the parking lot on. He
landed on his feet,
breaking both ankles and smashing his bones into his hips.
But he was conscious.
The hospital attendants taped his
mouth shut as his language was disturbing to them.
March 29, 1968
Grateful Dead
Chuck Berry
Curly Cooke's Hurdy Gurdy Band
@ Carousel Ballroom
Artist: Steve Catron
More Vintage GD Memorabilia
March 29, 1971 --
Led Zeppelin registers all six of its albums on the charts
simultaneously, a feat never before made in pop history.
Mar. 29, 1971
Charles Manson is sentenced to life imprisonment after 9 1/2 month
trial
-- longest in California history until then.
Mar. 29, 1975
Last U.S. troops flee Vietnam. Saigon would fall a month later.
March 29, 2003 ~ Eighth annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair. One of the largest displays of political literature on the West Coast. 50 exhibitors, authors speaking on current issues,government & social change, a free event. Held at The Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park,speakers include Bo Brown, Max Elbaum, Diane Di Prima, Eric Drooker, Roy San Filippo, Chris Carlsson, Ron Sakolsky, Kirk Read, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. SEE THE POSTER AND ALL SPEAKERS
Mar. 31,1927
Birth of nonviolent activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez, 20 miles north of Yuma, Ariz.
March 31, 1967
Mime Troupe appear at Fluxfest at Longshoremen's
Hall.
Mime Troupe appear at Fluxfest Poster
The Mime Troupe is collectively owned & operated by its workers.
March 31, 1980
President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
Hmm! Was this the beginning of the end?
Mar 31, 2000
The $345 million Pacific Bell Park at
Third and King streets opened with an
exhibition game between the Giants and
the Milwaukee Brewers. The Giants won 8-3.
Mar 31, 2001
SF celebrated its 1st Cesar Chavez Day parade. Some 15,000 participated
Do you enjoy revisiting the art and music from the dance hall concerts of the late 60's and early 70's? I sure do! Posters and concerts displayed here are for the pleasure of those like me who were solucky to have been here and for those who wish they had been. ~ nicole, sfheart.comMarch 2, 1850
quantities of acid available for the first time. Owsley now ..July 12, 2007, Chronicle news
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