February 1, 1966
Bill Graham resigns as business manager of the San Francisco
Mime Troupe in
order to devote himself full-time to the business
of acid rock
concert promotion,
initially at the Fillmore Auditorium.
February 1, 1968
Jimi Hendrix Experience
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
Albert King
Fillmore Auditorium
Artist: Rick Griffin John Mayall bio.
February 2, 1848 - Brig "Eagle's" first shipload of Chinese workers seeking fortune in California's gold country arrived in San Francisco.
Feb. 2, 1872
Joshua Norton I, 'Dei Gratia' Emperor of the United States
and Protector of Mexico, fired all public officials. Emperor Norton's Achive
Feb 2, 1968 - Feb 4, 1968 Electric Flag
Mad River
The Fugs
13th Floor Elevators
The Diogenes Lantern Works
@Avalon Ballroom (San Francisco, CA)
Artist:Victor Moscoso
Feb 3, 1967 - Feb 5, 1967
Jefferson Airplane
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Dino Valenti
@ the Fillmore
artist
Wes Wilson
February 3, 1967 Hell's Angels
The Hells Angels
California Hall
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Blue Cheer
February 3, 1969
Continuous Projections of Films
@ San Francisco Art Institute
Artist:Robert Nelson
Born in San Francisco in 1930, Mr. Nelson began making films after training ... of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) during its heyday and was active in the teeming San Francisco arts scene in the late 1950s and early ’60s, began making movies with other artists, including the painters William T. Wiley and William Allan, the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the composer Steve Reich
Robert Nelson, died Jan 2012 ,age 81 Obituary, New Your Times.
February 4, 1846
The ship "Brooklyn" left New York bound for San Francisco with members
of the Church of Latter-Day Saints aboard. They had been instructed to "flee
Babylon." They departed for California the same day other Saints left
Navoo, Illinois, following clashes with settlers over polygamy. The party from
Navoo was to meet Sam Brannan's group at Yerba Buena.
February 4, 1965
Martin Luther King Jr. and 770 other protesters arrested in Selma, Alabama for picketing county courthouse to end discrimination voting rights
February 4, 1966 Jefferson Airplane
The Mystery Trend
Fillmore Auditorium
Artist: Peter Bailey
Bill Graham's first non-benefit
showshow at the Fillmore
February 4, 1974
Patty Hearst, 19-year-old granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped in Berkeley, California, by theSymbionese Liberation Army(SLA). She became a bank robber for the SLA, and was pardoned by President Clinton on his last day of office, January 2001, along with his his brother Roger and a former business partner, Susan McDougal and nearly 100 others.
February 5, 1856
Chinese New Year began today. New Year's Eve was celebrated by the Celestials last night with the explosion of millions of firecrackers.
February 8, 1968 -
February 10, 1968 John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
Arlo Guthrie
The Loading Zone
Holy See
@ Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco
Poster Artist:Stanley Mouse
February 10, 1967 A Tribute to J. Edgar Hoover
The Mojo Men
Blue Cheer
California Hall
San Francisco
Artist: Yao
February 10, 1967 The Blues Project
Jimmy Reed
John Lee Hooker
Fillmore Auditorium
Artist:John H. Myers
February 11, 1854
San Francisco Gas Company turned on first coal gas lamps tonight.
The occasion was celebrated at a grand banquet at the Oriental Hotel.
The gas illuminated
86 lamps and also the Metropolitan Theatre.
February 11, 1978 Native Americans began The Longest Walk, a march from Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay to Washington, D.C.
The Walk was intended to be a reminder of the forced removal of American Indians from their homelands across the continent, and drew attention to the continuing problems plaguing the Indian community,particularly joblessness, lack of health care, education and adequate housing
Feb. 12, 1966 Lincoln's Birthday Party
Firehouse Theatre (
San Francisco
February 12, 1966
Rock For Peace at the Fillmore Auditorium with the The Great Society, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Big Brother and the Holding Company. Benefit for Democratic congressional candidates and the Viet Nam Study Group.
February 12, 1967 Abe Lincoln's Birthday Party
Grateful Dead
Moby Grape
Sly & the Family Stone
Fillmore Auditorium
Artist: Hank Lelo
February 12, 2004
Some 90 gay and lesbian couples wed in San Francisco.
Over the next few days some 2,000 took their vows.
Feb 13, 1967 Neon Rose #6
The Blues Project
@ Matrix , San Francisco
Poster Artist:Victor Moscoso
"Everybody understands Mickey Mouse. Few understand Hermann Hesse. Hardly anybody understands Einstein. & nobody understands Emperor Norton." — Malaclypse the Younger, K.S.C.
February 14, 1967
Jim Morrison and The Doors performed at Whisky A-Go-Go,
568 Sacramento St. San Francisco
February 14, 1968 Be Mine
Grateful Dead
Country Joe & the Fish
Carousel Ballroom
Artist: Stanley Mouse
Feb 14, 1968
The Jefferson Airplane opens at the Carousel Ballroom,
Van Ness Ave. & Market Street, San Francisco, California.
February 15, 1849
Goat Island, also known as Sea Bird Island and later as Wood Island,
sold by Nathan Spear to Harbor Master Edward A. King for $1.
February 15, 1968
The Free City Collective holds an event in City Hall to create solidarity with prisoners at San Quentin. The event started at 10:30am with two flute players circling the rotunda and businessmen and officials in suits watching on. A balloon tied to a rock has written on it, "Honor the Spirit of Francis of Assissi " and a sign reads, "Soon this balloon shall be free."
At noon, thirty "Free City" people march into City Hall and, in typical Digger fashion, a multi-level event proceeds to unfold. While flutes and drums played, the balloon was released. A man sat on a toilet in the middle of the rotunda. A woman holds a palm leaf standing at the top of main stairway. A banner is
unfurled that reads, "Prisoners of San Francisco | Unite With Prisoners | Of San Quentin."
Later that afternoon, a gathering of hundreds outside San Quentin enjoyed
the Grateful Dead and The Phoenix. The event was in solidarity with prisoners
who had been reported to be planning a strike as reported in the Berkeley Barb.
The strike did not materialize according to the Warden. One Free City spokesperson
said, "People aren't going to know what prison is until they see a lot
of freedom."
February 16, 1935 Stephen Gaskin was born in in Denver, Colorado and served in the United States Marines from 1952 to 1955. In the 1960s, he moved to San Francisco and taught English, creative writing, and general semantics at San Francisco State College, where he was a student of S. I. Hayakawa.
His writing class became an open discussion known as Monday Night Class, which involved up to 1500 students.
Feb. 16, 1971 -- Alan Pasaro, the Hell's Angel tried & acquitted for the stabbing death of Meredith Hunter at the Altamont Speedway in 1969, sues the Rolling Stones, for invasion of privacy because the Maysles brothers' film, "Gimmie Shelter", showed the stabbing.
February 16, 1999
Concern was raised over the flock of some 50 wild parrots that lived on Telegraph Hill. Their protector and chronicler, Mark Bittner, was scheduled to move from his cottage and the city's Commission on Animal Control and Welfare asked for ideas on their care.
February 16, 2003
The SF anti-war demonstration cost organizers some $85,000. An estimated 200,000
people participated. Some 1000 protesters clashed with police at the end
of the rally and 46 people were arrested
Feb 17, 1967 - Feb 18, 1967 Second Annual Tribal Stomp
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Oxford Circle
Ben Van Meter
Roger Hillyard
@ Avalon Ballroom
Artist:Stanley Mouse
Alton Kelley
February 19, 1966 Wildflower
The Sopwith Camel
Firehouse Theatre
February 19, 1966 Jefferson Airplane
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Fillmore Auditorium
Artist: Wes Wilson Poster
The first concert presented by Chet Helms, and because there were only approximately 250 copies printed in this run, the poster is very rare and highly sought after.
February 19, 1967
Port Chicago Vigil Benefit at California Hall.
Feb. 20, 1931 California got the go-ahead by the US Congress
to build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
February 20, 2004
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger directed the California state attorney general to take immediate legal steps to stop SF from granting marriage licenses to
gay couples.
February 21, 2004
Bill Lockyer, California state Attorney General, rebuffed Gov. Schwarzenegger's demand to force an end to same-sex marriages in SF, calling the directive
political rhetoric.
February 22, 1847
As one of his last official acts, Alcalde Bartlett certified the accuracy of
the new town plan for San Francisco before the County Recorder.
Feb 22, 1968 - Feb 24, 1968 The Who
Cannonball Adderley
The Vagrants
Glenn McKay's Head Lights
@Fillmore Auditorium (San Francisco, CA)
Artist:Lee Conklin
February 23, 1887
An act to grant certain Seal Rocks to the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, in trust for the people of the United States.
Feb, 23, 1904 - William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner begins publishing articleson the menace of Japanese laborers, leading to a resolution of the California Legislature that action be taken against their immigration. Source
February 23, 1905(?) The San Francisco Chronicle front page headline reads:
"The Japanese Invasion: The Problem of the Hour." This launches an unrelenting string of editorials against the Japanese which serve to kick the anti-Japanese movement into high gear.
Feb 23, 1966 Allen Ginsberg
Poets Theater
Poets Theater
(San Francisco, CA)
Feb 23, 1968 - Feb 25, 1968 Buddy Guy
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Son House
@ Avalon Ballroom (San Francisco, CA)
February 23, 2004
The wage minimum in SF rose to $8.50 from $6.75, based on voter approval in
2003.
Feb 24, 1967 Rahsaan Roland Kirk
@ Both And Club
February 24, 1967 The Diggers
The Invisible Circus
Glide Memorial Church
Artist: Dave Hodges
The "72 Hr. Environmental
Community Happening."
On February 25th, 1979,
a windy, cold and rainy Sunday in San Francisco, about three hundred drummers and dancers, dressed in multifarious colors and shapes, paraded around Precita Park in the Mission District. It was the Birth of Carnaval on the Streets of San Francisco
Feb 26, 1966 Tour/Show:King Kong Memorial Dance
Great Society
The Grass Roots
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Fillmore Auditorium
Artist: Wes Wilson
Chet Helms
February 27, 1967
Police raided two Digger houses that the were 848 Clayton and 1775 Haight. The next day, a demonstration takes place at Park Station protesting the raids, and police harassment, especially directed toward Patrolman Arthur Gerrans. Lt. John Curran estimated that 40 people stayed at each apartment on a nightly
basis.
February 27, 1998 Jack Micheline (born as Harvey Martin Silver in NY), Bohemian poet, died at
68 of a heart attack on a BART train between SF and Orinda. His first book
of poetry was "River of Red Wine," and his last was "Sixty
Seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints."
Jack MichelineJack Micheline
Feb, 28, 1970 -- Jefferson Airplane is fined $1,000 for singing
the "F word" in an Oklahoma City concert.
The Calendar of San Francisco History each month contains many facts about San Francisco found and shared freely online by Virtual San FranciscoMuseum, The Daily Bleed, and The Diggers Archive, and local archived newspapers. Included on the calendar are also facts and fancies from my own experiences and research into all things San Francisco over the many years I have lived and loved here. ~ nicole, sfheart.com
February 1, 1968 
Electric Flag 
Feb 3, 1967 - Feb 5, 1967
Hell's Angels
February 3, 1969
Jefferson Airplane
Neon Rose #5
Mike Bloomfield 
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers 
A Tribute to J. Edgar Hoover 
The Blues Project
The Walk was intended to be a reminder of the forced removal of American Indians from their homelands across the continent, and drew attention to the continuing problems plaguing the Indian community,particularly joblessness, lack of health care, education and adequate housing
Lincoln's Birthday Party 
Abe Lincoln's Birthday Party 
Neon Rose #6 
Be Mine
Second Annual Tribal Stomp
Wildflower
Jefferson Airplane
The Who 
Allen Ginsberg 
Buddy Guy 
Rahsaan Roland Kirk 
The Diggers 
Tour/Show:King Kong Memorial Dance