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San Francisco's birthday
People have lived on the site of San Francisco since at least 3000 BC and there were Native American villages on the bay when the first Spanish explorers...
30th June 2023 at 07:32
Thanks for pointing San Diego's history, John. We're not favouring San Francisco over other Californian or even US cities, it's just that its birthday fell on a slow news day for our Cocktail of the Day with alternatives including National Almond Buttercrunch Day and National Waffle Iron Day.
The Spanish presidio of San Diego was established on Presidio Hill July 1, 1769, and was the first permanent European settlement on the Pacific Coast. The first of the twenty-one California missions, Mission San Diego de Alcalá was founded by Father Junipero Serra on July 16, 1769.