1892:With 182 charter members and naturalist John Muir as its first president, the Sierra Club is founded in attorney Warren Olney's San Francisco office. From its early days, the Sierra Club has sought to encourage recreation, education and conservation in the Sierra Nevadas.
1957: The Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants are granted permission by Major League Baseball's National League to move to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively, leaving thousands of New York baseball fans heartbroken.
1997: Piloting a restored Lockheed Electra Model 10E, the same make and model of aircraft in which Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared 60 years earlier, Texas businesswoman and aviation enthusiast Linda Finch lands in Oakland, Calif., completing her re-creation of the around-the-world flight that Earhart attempted in 1937.
1957: The Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants are granted permission by Major League Baseball's National League to move to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively, leaving thousands of New York baseball fans heartbroken.
1997: Piloting a restored Lockheed Electra Model 10E, the same make and model of aircraft in which Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared 60 years earlier, Texas businesswoman and aviation enthusiast Linda Finch lands in Oakland, Calif., completing her re-creation of the around-the-world flight that Earhart attempted in 1937.
1971: USSR Mars 3 is launched and the first spacecraft to soft land on Mars.
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