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1770
Founding of Mission San Carlos Borromeo at Monterey Bay.
1849
Brigadier General Bennett Riley, military governor of California, calls for a California constitutional convention.
1888
The classic baseball poem “Casey at the Bat,” written by Ernest L. Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner. [Source: HistoryNet.com.]
1948
The 200-inch reflecting Hale Telescope at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California was dedicated. [Source: the Orange County Register.]