Not Your Century

Jane Lathrop Stanford, co-founder of the university, survives a poisoning attempt at her palatial home in San Francisco.... Read more

It wasn't the first 20th century trial to be dubbed the Trial of the Century. But it might be the one that keeps the tit... Read more

"Good ol' Charlie Brown," a little boy sitting on a curb says as a soon-to-be-familiar character with a round head strol... Read more

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake kills more than 60 people, injures hundreds, damages the Bay Bridge and other roadways and bu... Read more

A tip leads police to knock on a door in the Outer Mission. When Patty Hearst answers, it ends a 19-month odyssey that s... Read more

That's what Interior Secretary James Watt called the audience for the Beach Boys when he banned them from a July Fourth ... Read more

San Francisco Chronicle reporters talk about where they were when the earth shook on Oct. 17, 1989, and what they did on... Read more

Once one of America's most beloved movie stars, the great comedian was now being hounded by the FBI for his leftist poli... Read more

You'll be glad to know Albert Einstein was right. Astronomers at the Lick Observatory in San Jose confirmed it by examin... Read more

They used to call it "Custer's Last Stand," thanks to nearly a century of myth-making. But the real story is it was a gr... Read more

We know it as an iconic "three days of peace and music." Early media reports made it sound like a natural disaster had h... Read more

You've got to be pretty bold to tangle with the pope. Teddy Roosevelt was pretty bold. On a post-presidential world tour... Read more

Imagine the surprise for the prosecutor when he looked out at the law class he was teaching and saw the face of the man ... Read more

Some teenage boys out for a walk in the woods stumble upon a living museum of prehistoric times, "a cavalcade of animals... Read more

A day after Americans learned that the Nazi leader had died, they learned that Germany's official announcement that Hitl... Read more

Three gang members walk into a crowded Chinatown restaurant in the wee hours with long guns. The worst mass shooting in ... Read more

President Nixon reverses course and escalates the Vietnam War by invading formerly neutral Cambodia, and America's colle... Read more

The King of Magicians dies on Halloween. Of course he does. Joe Posnanski, author of the new biography "The Life and Aft... Read more

President Woodrow Wilson presses a telegraph key in Washington and 4,000 miles to the south, eight tons of dynamite blow... Read more

Here comes the Great Depression. The stock market crash wasn't a one-day event, but the one day known as Black Tuesday s... Read more