San Diego Historical Society / Union-Tribune Collection
TIJUANA DAY IN OLD TOWN: The 200th anniversary of the city of San Diego included a Tijuana Day celebration in Old Town in January 1969. Dignitaries from San Diego and Tijuana were entertained by singers, musicians and folk dancers.
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This Week in History
Dec. 3, 1985
Fred Miller, former Arizona State and Long Beach State athletic director, was hired to be San Diego State University's athletic director. On the same day, Doug Scovil was dismissed as San Diego State's head football coach.
Dec. 3, 1991
Chief U.S. District Court Judge Gordon Thompson Jr. said crosses on publicly owned property atop Mount Soledad and Mount Helix violated the constitutional guarantee of separation of church and state and ordered both removed within three months.
Dec. 3, 2002
Quincy Troupe resigned from the University of California San Diego after the nationally acclaimed poet and author admitted lying on his resumé about earning a degree from Louisiana's Grambling State University in the late 1950s.
Dec. 4, 1875
Border bandits raided the Gaskill brothers' Campo store.
Dec. 4, 1918
Under the command of Maj. Albert D. Smith, four JN-4s set off from San Diego to Jacksonville, Fla., to complete the Army's first transcontinental flight (Dec. 4-22).
Dec. 4, 1959
Navy pilot Ens. Albert Joe Hickman steered his crippled jet fighter away from Hawthorne Elementary School in Clairemont, but died when the aircraft crashed. The city named an elementary school in Mira Mesa after him.
Dec. 5, 1882
The first Congregational Church building at 8th Street and A Avenue in National City was dedicated.
Dec. 5, 1933
Curious San Diegans thronged downtown at 2:25 p.m. as the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, ending 13 years of Prohibition.
Dec. 5, 1941
The 11th U.S. Cavalry Regiment arrived at Camp Lockett near Campo.
Dec. 5, 1965
The Rolling Stones were on stage for barely 20 minutes at Convention Hall, but they managed to build a near-capacity audience into a screaming, sobbing, frantic mob.
Dec. 5, 2000
Oceanside Mayor Terry Johnson was sworn in, becoming the first black mayor in San Diego County.
Dec. 6, 1846
The Battle of San Pasqual took place near Escondido during the Mexican-American War.
Dec. 6, 1910
The San Diego Civic Orchestra made its debut at the lavish, new U.S. Grant Hotel.
Dec. 6, 1941
Pacific Shores bar and cafe opened on Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach.
Dec. 7, 1922
Lt. Charles L. Webber and Col. Francis C. Marshall died in a flaming plane crash in the Cuyamaca Mountains on a routine flight from Rockwell Field to Ft. Huachuca in Arizona.
Dec. 7, 1941
Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Dec. 7, 1947
Three thousand people attend a public rally featuring movie actor Pat O'Brien in Balboa Park, held to promote the proposed University of San Diego.
Dec. 7, 1989
Fio's Cucina Italiana opened at Fifth Avenue and F Street in the Gaslamp Quarter.
Dec. 8, 1892
San Diego Hardware opened at 658 Fifth Ave.Dec. 8, 1913
The Duke of Richelieu was seen in San Diego without a hat. A San Diego Union staff photographer snapped a picture of the occasion for the front page of the following day's paper.
Dec. 8, 1915
The San Diego City Council contracted with rainmaker Charles Hatfield to fill Lake Morena Reservoir for $10,000.
Dec. 8, 1936
A meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Depew marked the beginning of the Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church.
Dec. 8, 1995
California State University trustees selected Stephen Weber to become the seventh president of San Diego State University.
Dec. 9, 1886
Ordinance No. 35 created a San Diego Fire Department to be led by a chief engineer.
Dec. 9, 1914
The Navy field hospital first established a presence in Balboa Park, moving from the base at North Island to the exposition grounds in the park, where it remained until the spring of 1917 as part of the Panama-California Exposition.
Dec. 9, 1948
The Avo Theatre in Vista opened.
Dec. 9, 1971
The Who performed at the Sports Arena with Mylon LeFevre.
Dec. 9, 1977
Marcus Allen scored five touchdowns – on runs of 30, 85, 20 and 10 yards, and an interception return of 60 yards – in a 34-6 victory for Abraham Lincoln High over previously unbeaten Kearny High before 12,205 in the CIF final at then-San Diego Stadium.
Library researcher Merrie Monteagudo compiled this report.
