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1946
Prisoners revolt at California’s Alcatraz prison. [Source: HistoryNet.com.]
2017
Died: George Niederauer, eighth archbishop of San Francisco. He supported California Proposition 8, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman. Then California Attorney General Jerry Brown refused to defend the Proposition when a law suit was filed. Archbishop Niederauer was born June 14, 2936, in Los Angeles. He retired in 2012. [Sources: Sacramento Bee, Wikipedia.]