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| 1859 | - | Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of San Francisco incorporated. |
| 1861 | - | Fort Sumter - S. C. - shelled by Confederacy - starts Civil War. |
| 1898 | - | Army transfers Yerba Buena Island to Navy. |
| 1933 | - | Moffatt Field is commissioned. |
| 1961 | - | Yuri A. Gagarin becomes 1st man to orbit Earth. |
| 1962 | - | San Mateo County withdraws from BART district. |
| 1981 | - | 1st launch of the space shuttle - Columbia. |
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