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40 unusual facts about San Diego


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.

Brenda Hutchinson

Hutchinson earned her M.A. in Music Composition from the University of California, San Diego, where she studied with Pauline Oliveros, Roger Reynolds, Bernard Rands, and Robert Erickson.

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.

Cauleen Smith

Cauleen Smith (Born September 25, 1967) is an American born filmmaker and professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.

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.

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.

Cymer, Inc.

Cymer was founded in 1986 by Dr. Robert Akins and Dr. Richard Sandstrom, who met in the mid-1970s in a lab class at the University of California, San Diego.

Fassionola

It is produced and distributed by the Jonathan English Company, based in San Diego.

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.

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.

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.

Giant octopus

E. dofleini is the only member of the genus found in the Northern Hemisphere and also the most widely distributed, occurring from San Diego, California along the North Pacific Rim to Japan, including the Okhotsk and Bering Seas.

Helmut Röhrl

In the academic year 1958–1959 he was at the University of Chicago, became in 1959 an associate professor and subsequently professor at the University of Minnesota and was from 1964 a professor at the University of California, San Diego.

History from Below

History from Below is the follow-up album to 2008's critically acclaimed Ode to Sunshine by San Diego's Delta Spirit.

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.

J1 – Summer in the Sun

The students range from ages 18–23 and are divided into three "gangs": the Chicago Gang, the Hawaii Gang and the San Diego Gang.

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.

John Dove Isaacs

He became Full Professor at the University of California, San Diego, which honored him posthumously by creating the John Dove Isaacs Chair in Natural Philosophy.

Kevin Faulconer

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

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.

La Playa

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

Leslie Orgel

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

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He was also an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and he was one of five principal investigators in the NASA-sponsored NSCORT program in exobiology.

Lisa Cartwright

Currently, she is a Professor in the Communication Department at the University of California, San Diego.

María Ruiz de Burton

His brother, Francisco Ruiz, was commandate of the Presidio of San Diego.

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In 1870, after her husband's burial at West Point, Ruiz de Burton returned to Rancho Jamul in San Diego, spending the rest of her life in lawsuits trying to keep the title to Rancho Jamul while also working on her writing career.

Michel de Certeau

Certeau went on to teach at several universities in locations as diverse as Geneva, San Diego, and Paris.

Orko Eloheim

Orko grew up in Encanto, San Diego, where he first started recording his own music in the mid 1980s.

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.

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.

Pearn P. Niiler

Pearn P. Niiler (1937, Tartu, Estonia, died October 15, 2010, San Diego) - American oceanographer.

Peter Guy Wolynes

Previously he was James R. Eiszner Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Francis H.C. Crick Chair of Physical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego.

Rae Armantrout

In 1965, whilst living in the Allied Gardens district with her parents, Armantrout attended San Diego State University, intending to major in anthropology.

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 Toreros baseball

The San Diego Toreros baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball program of the University of San Diego, located in San Diego, California, United States.

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.

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.

USAFL Western Regionals

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

Walter E. Mooney

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


Ahmed F. Mehalba

Mehalba received a medical discharge from the Army in May 2001 and was later hired a San Diego defense contractor, Titan Corporation, to be an Arabic-English translator at Guantanamo Bay.

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.

Ballena, California

Ballena began in 1870, as a way stop and layover point for freight wagons, which provided fresh teams of horses and mules for the wagons on the road between the gold rush camps of Branson City, Coleman City, Eastwood and Julian and the ports of National City and San Diego.

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..

Bonnie Marranca

She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship in the UK, and Fulbright Senior Scholar who has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, NYU, Duke University, the University of California-San Diego, Free University of Berlin, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona Institute for Theatre .

Brian Selden

Brian Selden (born in 1980 in San Diego, California) was the winner of the 1998 Magic: The Gathering World Championship.

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.

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.

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.

Cymer, Inc.

, an ASML company, is an American company headquartered in San Diego, California.

Dan Sartain

After releasing two self-produced albums through independent record labels, his first commercially available studio album Dan Sartain vs. the Serpientes was released in 2005 through San Diego, California-based Swami Records.

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.

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.

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.

Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

After completing the cross-country trek in Ghana, the CAF invited him to participate in the 2002 Triathlon Challenge in San Diego, CA.

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.

Etienne Dormoy

Étienne Dormoy (Vandoncourt, France, 10 February 1885 – San Diego, USA, 28 February 1959) was a designer of aircraft.

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.

Gene Porter

After moving to San Diego in 1948, he played with Walter Fuller (1948–60), then led his own ensemble at the Bronze Room in La Mesa, California beginning in 1967.

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.

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.

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.

Kathy Sierra

In March 2007, Sierra abruptly canceled her appearance at the O'Reilly ETech conference in San Diego due to threatening blog posts and emails, including death threats.

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.

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.

National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze

The four major locations in California used for filming were: Los Angeles, San Diego (including Balboa Park), and Castaic.

Peter Ricq

His work has been exhibited in Montreal, Vancouver, San Diego and Portland and has been featured in several international magazines (Hemp, Under Pressure, CRUX), in Wallfarmers, a website dedicated on exposing new and established contemporary artists.

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.

Rougheye rockfish

Rougheye rockfish are deepwater fish, and exist between 31° and 66° latitude, in the North Pacific, and specifically along the coast of Japan to the Navarin Canyon in the Bering Sea, to the Aleutian Islands, all the way south to San Diego, California.

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 Continuing Education

San Diego Continuing Education (SDCE) is a public, non-credit educational institution in San Diego, California.

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.

Sinclair Oil Corporation

Sinclair Oil Company also owns and operates Grand America Hotels and Resorts, which has hotel properties in Salt Lake City, Utah; Flagstaff, Arizona; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Little America, Wyoming; and San Diego, California, in addition to the Sun Valley and Snowbasin resorts.

Transport in Lethbridge

Highway 4 leads out to satellite communities (such as Stirling and Warner) and the Canada-United States border, where it meets Interstate 15, connecting eventually to Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and San Diego.

Veterans' court

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

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.

William A. Massey

He moved to San Diego, California in 1886, and to Nevada in 1887, where he prospected and mined, and later took up the practice of law in Elko, Nevada.

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.