Geographical Location - California
- Accident Spills Pesticide into the Sacramento River
- Achumawi
- Acorns
- Alien Land Laws
- Apple II Becomes the First Successful Preassembled Personal Computer
- Architecture: California
- Astronomers Discover an Unusual Ring System of Planet Neptune
- AT&T and GTE Install Fiber-Optic Telephone Systems
- Atsugewi
- Barghoorn and Coworkers Find Amino Acids in 3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks
- Bell’s X-1 Rocket Plane Breaks Sound Barrier
- Berg, Gilbert, and Sanger Develop Techniques for Genetic Engineering
- Berkeley Free Speech Movement
- The Black Panther Party Is Organized
- Bloody Island Massacre
- Boulder Dam Is Completed
- Brown Orders Medfly Spraying in California
- Cahuilla
- California Gold Rush
- California missions
- California Voters Reject Bilingual Education
- Californians Vote to Limit Aid to Undocumented Immigrants
- Calvin Wins the Nobel Prize for His Work on Photosynthesis
- Captive-Bred Condors and Ferrets Are Reintroduced into the Wild
- Chávez Forms Farm Workers’ Union and Leads Grape Pickers’ Strike
- Chávez is Jailed for Organizing an Illegal Lettuce Boycott
- Coast Yuki
- Cohen and Boyer Develop Recombinant DNA Technology
- Cohen Begins Research on Neutron Bomb
- Coos language
- Cupeño
- Diegueño
- Disney Company Announces Plans to Acquire Capital Cities/ABC
- Disneyland Opens
- Doell and Dalrymple Discover the Magnetic Reversals of Earth’s Poles
- Drake Lands in Northern California
- Drive-Through Services Proliferate
- The Earth Resources Technology Satellite Is Launched
- Enzyme Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease
- Era of the Clipper Ships
- Erlich Develops DNA Fingerprinting from a Single Hair
- Esselen
- Federal Power Commission Disallows Kings River Dams
- Fender Introduces the Broadcaster Guitar
- The First Laser Is Developed in the United States
- The First Ring Around Jupiter Is Discovered
- The First Successful Human Embryo Transfer Is Performed
- The Floppy Disk Is Introduced for Storing Data Used by Computers
- Gell-Mann Formulates the Theory of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)
- Genetically Altered Bacteria Are Released into the Environment
