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43 unusual facts about San Diego


Alqosh

It is estimated that at least 40,000 "Alqushnaye" immigrants and their 2nd and 3rd generations now live in the cities of Detroit, Michigan and San Diego, California.

Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa

In 1772 Pedro Fages and Fray Juan Crespí, leaving from San Diego, founded the port and presidio of San Francisco, in Alta California.

Blockade of Wonsan

Ozbourn eventually returned to San Diego in April 1951 for repairs and later sailed back to North Korea.

Brian Druker

Dr. Druker earned both his BS in chemistry and MD from the University of California, San Diego.

Caproni Ca.113

These latter records were set by Tito Falconi at the US 1933 National Air Races, who flew inverted from Los Angeles to San Diego and after the race meet, made an inverted flight from St. Louis to Chicago.

Charles Dudley Warner

The citizens of San Diego so appreciated his flattering description of their city in his book, Our Italy, that they named three consecutive streets in the Point Loma neighborhood after him: Charles Street, Dudley Street, and Warner Street.

Charles Lee Smith

Charles Lee Smith (1887 – 1964 in San Diego, California) was an atheist and Freethought activist in the United States, and editor of The Truth Seeker Freethought magazine in New York from 1937 until his death.

Chivas Tijuana

The club counted on 18 players but was relegated to the second division in San Luis Río Colorado, Mexicali, Rosarito, San Diego and a few more who contributed young talent .

Community Benefits Agreement

Although the community benefits movement began in Los Angeles, it has spread rapidly to other cities, including Atlanta, Denver, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Syracuse, Washington, D.C., and Wilmington.

D. Van Holliday

In 1965 Holliday left Austin to develop the Tracor facility in San Diego and began his doctorate in applied physics at the University of California, San Diego.

David Medved

After obtaining a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, he worked for Convair/General Dynamics in San Diego, where he developed systems to destroy intercontinental missiles during flight.

Enrique Estrada

He was arrested in 1926 by the FBI under the leadership of by Special Agent Edwin Atherton while heading a large convoy of armored vehicles and armed men east of San Diego, California, and jailed in the United States for 21 months.

Environmental Health Coalition

The Environmental Health Coalition (EHC), is dedicated to accomplishing environmental and social justice in neighborhood, such as National City and Barrio Logan.

Flux Television

Flux Television was a pioneering digital culture show that ran on a Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV channel in New York, San Francisco and San Diego in the mid-1990s.

Garden State Fireworks

2012: A Fourth of July display in San Diego, California called the Big Bay Boom, billed as one of the largest in the United States, was ruined when all 7,000 fireworks from four barges and a pier went off early in a single simultaneous explosion.

Hryhory Kytasty

Upon returning to the USA Kytasty left the Chorus and moved to San Diego.

Human trafficking in the United States

Slavery is found throughout California, but major hubs are centered around Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco.

Hydra Technologies Gavilán

The Gavilán was presented on June 10 of 2008 in San Diego, California by 'Hydra Technologies of Mexico' in AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) North America 2008, the biggest global expo of this particular industry in the world.

Jacobs School of Rock

The Jacobs School of Rock concert series is campus music festival at the University of California, San Diego that usually takes place the tenth week of the spring quarter.

Kevin Faulconer

He and his wife Katherine, a small business owner, live in Point Loma with their two children.

Knockaround

Knockaround was founded in 2005 by Adam Moyer, during his enrollment as a graduate art student at University of California, San Diego.

Kolender v. Lawson

William Kolender was a losing appellant who was acting in his capacity as Chief of Police of San Diego, as was John Duffy who was acting in his capacity as Sheriff of San Diego County.

Kurt Benirschke

In 1970, Benirschke moved west to participate in the development of a new medical school of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

La Playa

La Playa, San Diego, a bayfront neighborhood in Point Loma, San Diego, California

Leon Springs, Texas

Aue founded an inn which became the first stop on the Stagecoach route between San Antonio and San Diego.

Leslie Orgel

Orgel died of cancer on 27 October 2007 at the San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care in San Diego, California.

Patricia Santana

She graduated from University of California, San Diego, and from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature.

Roller in-line hockey

The very first inline roller hockey team to earn a USA National Championship title did so at a USA Roller Sports National Championship held in San Diego in July 1993.

Same Love, Same Rain

It was screened at various film festivals, including: the Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain; the Gramado Film Festival, Brazil; the Oslo Films from the South Festival, Norway; the San Diego Latino Film Festival, San Diego, USA; and others.

San Diego and Arizona Railway

In 1979 San Diego's Metropolitan Development Board (MTDB) purchased three portions of the SD&AE: from Plaster City to the border, from San Diego south of the border between San Ysidro. California, and Tijuana, Baja California, and from San Diego east to El Cajon.

Sidney Wicks

At 9 a.m. on May 5, 1989, in Mira Mesa, San Diego, California, Wicks was seriously injured in a car accident.

Society for Social Neuroscience

Its inaugural meeting took place on November 12, 2010, the day prior to the 2010 Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, California.

Statue of Responsibility

The statue foundation would like to build it in one of five host cities: Long Beach, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco (California) or Seattle (Washington).

The Neurosciences Institute

It was bordered by TSRI to the west, the Sanford-Burnham Institute to the north, the University of California, San Diego to the south, and numerous biotechnology and pharmaceutical research companies to the east and in the immediate surrounding area.

Thomas Elsaesser

Since 1976 Elsaesser regularly teaches as a visiting professor at American universities notably at the University of Iowa, University of California (Los Angeles, San Diego, Berkeley, Irvine, Santa Barbara), New York University and Yale University.

Turbonilla obesa

The type specimen was collected in the Pacific Ocean at Pacific Beach, California, USA.

USAFL Western Regionals

The second round was hosted at San Diego with the San Diego Lions also taking out the honours.

The first Western Regionals were held in San Diego on August 14 and 15 of 2004, with the Denver Bulldogs winning the tournament.

Veterans' court

In January 2011, a Veterans Court pilot program was established in San Diego, CA.

Walter E. Mooney

Walter E. Mooney (1926 - March 1, 1990) was a pilot and model aircraft designer who lived in San Diego, California.

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie

Xie received a B.S. in chemistry from Peking University, followed by his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of California at San Diego.

Yoldia limatula

It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to New Jersey, as well as along the Pacific coast, from Alaska to San Diego.

Young Munster

The Club also was one of the first Irish teams to tour North America extensively when, in 1985, they played 5 games in New York City, Vancouver, Langley (B.C.), Los Angeles and San Diego.


Abraham Klauber

Abraham's youngest son Laurence Monroe Klauber (1883 in San Diego, California – 1968), was an American herpetologist, and was considered to be the foremost authority on rattlesnakes.

Air Tahoma

It was established and started operations in 1996 in San Diego then later moved to Indianapolis in 1998 and to its last location at Rickenbacker International Airport, Columbus.

Air/Space America 88

Air/Space America 88 was an aviation exposition and airshow held at San Diego California's Brown Field in late May of 1988.

Andrew Logan

In the new millennium, Andrew Logan created jewelled sculptures for The Magic Flute opera in San Diego.

Arizona and California Railroad

In 1914, the California Southern Railroad (not to be confused with the earlier railroad linking Barstow and San Diego) was incorporated to build 42.2 miles from a point known as Blythe Junction (Rice) to reach Blythe via a passage between the Big Maria Mountains and the Little Maria Mountains.

Black Market Magazine

Based in San Diego, Black Market Magazine initially featured mostly reviews / interviews of punk rock and other alternative bands such as Samhain, The Cramps, D.O.A., Tex and the Horseheads, G.B.H., New Order, Christian Death, Bad Religion, Ramones, Murphey's Law, Butthole Surfers, Wasted Youth, Danzig, Marilyn Manson, etc..

Carl Schmehl

Schmehl has assisted Broadway director and choreographer Gillian Lynne -- choreographer of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang -- on new productions in New York, San Diego, London and Vienna.

Charlie Beal

Charles Herbert Beal (September 14, 1908, Redlands, California - July 31, 1991, San Diego) was an American jazz pianist.

City Club of Chicago

The City Club of Chicago's crusading spirit inspired the founding of unaffiliated City Clubs in other major cities, including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Seattle and San Diego.

David Goeddel

David Goeddel (born 1951 in San Diego) is a pioneer of the biotechnology industry who, employed at the time by Genentech, successfully used genetic engineering to coax bacteria into creating synthetic human insulin, human growth hormone, and human Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for use in therapeutic medicine.

Doug Hegdahl

After returning to the U.S, Hegdahl used his experiences as an instructor at the United States Navy's SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) school based in NAS North Island, San Diego, California.

Doug Reed

Reed prepped at Lincoln High in Southeast San Diego.

Edmund Gilchrist

Working as an architect for the U.S. Navy during World War I, he designed housing at what is now North Island Naval Air Force Base in San Diego, California.

Edward Banker Willis

From San Diego, Willis marched with James H. Carleton's expedition across New Mexico Territory and was involved in the capture of Tucson, an old Spanish presidio defended by a handful of milita.

Francis Mellus

Francis Mellus bought hides for this company along the coast of California, taking the goods by sailboat to San Diego, where they dried them, and when sufficient had been collected to fill a ship, which usually took a couple of years' time, Mellus sent the goods east.

Freel Flying Wing

As a student of San Diego High School, in San Diego, California, Freel learned about aerodynamics under the instruction of LeTain Kittredge, in the aircraft rigging/woodshop class.

Gambling ship

On New Year's Day 1937, during the Great Depression, the gambling ship SS Monte Carlo, known for "drinks, dice, and dolls," was shipwrecked on the beach about a quarter mile south of the Hotel del Coronado, near San Diego.

George Myatt

In 1936, Boston Red Sox general manager Eddie Collins traveled to San Diego to scout Myatt in a Pacific Coast League game, but came away more impressed with his 17-year-old teammate, a San Diegan and a recent Hoover High School graduate.

Glendale Secondary School

The band has travelled to various locations to perform, including, but not limited to: Walt Disney World, Florida (8 times), Disneyland (4 times), New Orleans (3 times), New York City, Washington D.C., Boston, Atlanta, San Diego, Bermuda, Japan, Virginia Beach, and Williamsburg, VA Chicago/Cleveland .

Hijackers in the September 11 attacks

The first hijackers to arrive in the United States were Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who settled in the San Diego area in January 2000.

Jeffrey Krinsk

The attraction did not diminish and, in 1978, Krinsk moved to San Diego, California as staff attorney for Hang Ten International, Inc., an apparel licensing organization owning a “two feet” logo and Hang Ten trademark that epitomized the active California lifestyle.

Jordan Marsh

Jordan Marsh also opened a San Diego branch around the same time, occupying the former Sears store downtown.

Joseph S. Manasse

While on the board he voted for Ephraim Morse's proposal in 1868 to set aside a large track of land for a public park, which eventually became Balboa Park.

Kirby Wright

Wright moved to the University of California at San Diego UC-San Diego, where he took classes taught by the poets Bobbie Louise Hawkins and Jerome Rothenberg.

KVMD

It also reaches a good portion of Los Angeles, Orange and part of San Diego counties, but XETV-TV Tijuana/San Diego, which also broadcast digitally on channel 23, blocked KVMD's signal.

LA84 Foundation

The Foundation makes grants in the eight southernmost counties of California (Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura).

Law Enforcement Detachments

In the 1990s, the individual LEDETs were consolidated under three Tactical Law Enforcement Teams (TACELTs): Tactical Law Enforcement Team North (TACLET North) based in Chesapeake, Virginia, Tactical Law Enforcement Team Gulf (TACLET Gulf) based in New Orleans, Louisiana, Tactical Law Enforcement Team South (TACLET South), based in Opa-locka, Florida, and the Pacific Area Tactical Law Enforcement Team (PACTACLET) based in San Diego, California.

Lawn Rangers

The group has participated in a number of parades including the Holiday Bowl parade in San Diego, California, the Fiesta Bowl parade in Tempe, Arizona, the Indianapolis 500 parade, and the NFL Hall of Fame Game parade in Canton, Ohio.

Malcolm A. Love Library

The collection is worldwide in scope, with an emphasis on San Diego, California, the United States of America, and Baja California.

Michael Viscardi

Michael Anthony Viscardi (born February 22, 1989 in Plano, Texas) of San Diego, California is a young mathematician who won the 2005 Siemens Westinghouse Competition and Davidson Fellowship with a mathematical project on the Dirichlet problem, whose applications include describing the flow of heat across a metal surface, winning $100,000 and $50,000 in scholarships, respectively.

Paul A. Verdier

During the late 70s, he was extremely notable and popular and was on a number of talk shows in San Diego and Los Angeles commenting on the Patty Hearst kidnapping as well as a number of cult related news stories.

Pegeen Vail Guggenheim

Despite a short career, Pegeen Vail Guggenheim exhibited her work in New York, Philadelphia, Paris, London, Venice, Padua, Murano, Palm Beach, Vincenzo, Stockholm, Toronto, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego.

Red Bull New Year No Limits

The 2010 New Year No Limits was planned to move to San Diego, California, where Levi LaVallee, a seven-time Winter X Games medalist and champion snocross racer, was to attempt to jump his Polaris snowmobile longer than ever before and eclipse the current record of 301 feet.

San Angeles

San Angeles is a fictional futuristic concept of Southern California, United States, typically configured by commentators and films producers to include the areas of Los Angeles to San Diego and sometimes even San Bernardino to Riverside.

San Diego Polo Club

San Diego Polo Club is a polo club in situated Rancho Santa Fe in San Diego, California.

Sarasota Times Building

In 1915, at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, Goodhue and Carleton Winslow Sr. designed a complex of buildings that featured the rich architectural variety found in colonial Latin America.

Spaceway F2

SPACEWAY-2 immediately started broadcasting HD locals to DirecTV customers in eight more markets: Minneapolis, Minnesota; Sacramento and San Diego, California; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Nashville, Tennessee; Kansas City, Missouri.

Syrian American Council

As of April 10, 2013, SAC has 21 chapters across the U.S. in Chicago, Orlando, Los Angeles, Northern California, Washington, D.C./Virginia, Dearborn, New Jersey, Georgia, Indianapolis, Panama City, West Virginia, North Carolina, San Diego, Tampa, South Florida, Flint, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Raleigh, and Detroit.

The Green Leaf

The Green Leaf is an experimental rock & roll band from San Diego, California led by Mark Whitney Mehran (MWM).

Welton Jones

Jones is on the board of directors of the Save Our Heritage Organisation (SOHO), which is a non-profit devoted to preservation in San Diego.

When Boy Meets Boy

The official music video for "When Boy Meets Boy" is an animation video, directed and animated by San Diego comic artist and illustrator Joe Phillips.