A large fire in Berkeley &quot;(pictured, right)&quot; consumes some 640 structures, before being extinguished by cool, humid afternoon air coming through the Golden Gate across the bay
Atherton is incorporated in San Mateo County
California Memorial Stadium &quot;(pictured, right)&quot; opens in Berkeley, as the home field for the California Golden Bears football team of the University of California, Berkeley
The East Bay Municipal Utility District is formed to provide water and sewage treatment services to the East Bay
The San Francisco Opera Ballet gives its first performance, of &quot;La bohème&quot; &quot;(pictured, left)&quot;, with Queena Mario and Giovanni Martinelli, conducted by founder Gaetano Merola, at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium
The heated, saltwater Fleishhacker Pool in San Francisco opens &quot;(pictured, left)&quot;
The original Kezar Stadium in San Francisco opens &quot;(replica arch pictured, right)&quot;
San Carlos is incorporated in San Mateo County
The California Arts and Crafts Ainsley House is built in Campbell
The San Francisco Museum of Art opens at the War Memorial Veterans Building on Van Ness Avenue in the Civic Center &quot;(&quot;Woman with a Hat&quot; by Matisse, from the museum collection, pictured, left)&quot;
Benjamin Franklin Davis, grandson of the man who helped develop Levi's jeans, opens his eponymous clothing store in San Francisco
Benicia Capitol State Historic Park opens at the site of California's third capital building &quot;(pictured, right)&quot;, where the California State Legislature convened from February 3, 1853 to February 24, 1854
San Francisco Junior College is established
Lucky Stores is founded in Alameda County
Trolleybuses &quot;(pictured, right)&quot; began operating in San Francisco
The Berkeley Rose Garden &quot;(pictured, right)&quot;, built with funds from the Civil Works Administration, opens to the public
The Golden Gate Bridge &quot;(opening day pictured, left)&quot; opens to the public
The Hanna–Honeycomb House &quot;(pictured, right)&quot;, built by Frank Lloyd Wright at Stanford University, is completed
The new San Francisco Mint &quot;(pictured, right)&quot; is completed
Stanford Memorial Auditorium is completed
Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno is dedicated
The Malloch Building in San Francisco is completed
The 49-Mile Scenic Drive &quot;(road sign pictured, left)&quot; is created in San Francisco for the Golden Gate International Exposition by the San Francisco Down Town Association
Lake Anza &quot;(pictured, right)&quot; is created in Tilden Park in the Berkeley Hills
The Golden Gate International Exposition &quot;(poster pictured, left)&quot; opens at newly created Treasure Island
The Neptune Beach amusement park closes in Alameda
Hewlett-Packard is founded in a garage &quot;(pictured)&quot; in Palo Alto
Blue Shield of California is founded in San Francisco by the California Medical Association
Consumers' Cooperative of Berkeley opens, having formed from the Berkeley Buyers' Club, which was associated with the End Poverty in California movement
The Top of the Mark rooftop bar &quot;(pictured)&quot; is established at the top of the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill in San Francisco
Nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence at the University of California, Berkeley wins the Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of the cyclotron
The Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base &quot;(pictured, right)&quot;, near Fairfield, in Solano County, is officially activated
Golden Gate Park superintendent John McLaren dies
Edwin Hawkins is born in Oakland &quot;(Edwin Hawkins Singers pictured, left)&quot;
The &quot;Point Reyes Light&quot; weekly newspaper begins publishing in Marin County
The San Francisco Boys Chorus &quot;(pictured)&quot; is formed
Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences is created from the merger of the Schools of Biological Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences
Beat Generation hangout Vesuvio Cafe &quot;(pictured)&quot; opens in San Francisco
Westlake Shopping Center opens in Daly City
Richard Diebenkorn has his first art exhibit at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco
The Doggie Diner fast food restaurant opens in Oakland &quot;(later iconic doggie head pictured)&quot;
The Treaty of San Francisco, between Japan and part of the Allied Powers, is officially signed by 48 nations at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco &quot;(signing pictured, right)&quot;
Stanford Industrial Park in Palo Alto is completed
A Trader Vic's opens in San Francisco
Nuclear scientist Glenn T.

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