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Not Your Century

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Not Your Century

2020: Not Your Century Goes on Hiatus

With the San Francisco Chronicle focusing its editorial resources on the coronavirus pandemic and...

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1959: The Dalai Lama Escapes

The 23-year-old religious and spiritual leader of Tibet gets an invitation from the occupying...

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1922: Fatty Arbuckle's Third Trial

He's a giant of silent comedies, in more ways than one. Hollywood's first million-dollar star is...

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1918: The Flu Pandemic

A century before the COVID-19 coronavirus, the United States, like all combatants in the Great...

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1964: The Palace Hotel Protest Leader

As an 18-year-old, Tracy Sims was the leader of civil rights protests that forced San Francisco...

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1981: Walter Cronkite Signs Off

"That's the way it is," says the Most Trusted Man in America — for the last time, as he retires...

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1946: Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

In a college gym in small-town Missouri, former Prime Minister Winston Churchill tries to shake...

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1991: The Rodney King Beating

When a commotion outside his apartment woke George Holliday up at 1 a.m., the plumber grabbed his...

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1991: Murder in Porn's First Family

The Mitchell Brothers, Jim and "Party Artie," revolutionized the adult entertainment business,...

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1965: Malcolm X Suspect Arrested

In the wake of the Fusion and Netflix series "Who Shot Malcolm X?" the New York D.A. has reopened...

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1945: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

AP Photographer Joe Rosenthal had one chance to get what would become one of the most iconic...

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1972: Nixon Arrives in China

The lifelong anti-Communist shocks the world by initiating the first high-level contact with the...

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1963: A Great City Forced to Drink Swill

Total SF host Peter Hartlaub joins King Kaufman to talk about the most infamous headline in San...

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1937: Golden Gate Bridge Disaster

Chief engineer Joseph Strauss' massive safety net had saved 12 construction workers who'd fallen...

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1929: St. Valentine's Day Massacre

In the most famous hit in American mob history, seven members of Bugs Moran's North Side Gang are...

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1999: Impeachment Acquittal

Despite a GOP majority in the Senate, President Bill Clinton is easily acquitted on both articles...

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1967: The Pill and the Puritan Ethic

Sparks fly as at a San Francisco panel on changing sexual mores as anthropologist Margaret Mead...

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1986: Steve Jobs Buys Pixar

The big Bay Area business news of the day is Wells Fargo buying Crocker Bank. Nobody knew the...

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1956: Integration Fail at Alabama

Seven years before Gov. George Wallace's Stand in the Schoolhouse Door, Autherine Lucy integrates...

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1997: Vallejo Courthouse Bombing

They were the gang that couldn't bomb straight. Their plan to blow up court records was dumb,...

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