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A Waymo robotaxi was destroyed by humans last night. In San Francisco’s Chinatown, amid Lunar New Year celebrations, a crowd surrounded the autonomous vehicle, broke its windows, and set off ...
The New Frontier (formerly Hotel Last Frontier and The Frontier) was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The property began as a casino and dance club known as Pair O' Dice, opened in 1931. It was sold in 1941, and incorporated into the Hotel Last Frontier, which began construction at the end of the year.
October 17, 2001. The Black House was a building that formerly stood at 6114 California Street in San Francisco, California, in the United States. [1] The house was used by Anton LaVey as the headquarters of his Church of Satan, from 1966 until his death in 1997. [1] [2] It was a few blocks from the edge of the Presidio of San Francisco near ...
Unknown. On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay hotel. He fired more than 1,000 rounds, killing 60 people [a] and wounding at least 413.
The Strat Hotel & Casino & Tower [a] (formerly the Stratosphere) is a hotel and casino located in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It includes a 1,149 ft (350.2 m) observation tower, the tallest in the United States. It is also the second-tallest observation tower in the Western Hemisphere, surpassed only by the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario.
May 28 – September 27, 2020. (3 months, 4 weeks and 2 days) Location. San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States. Caused by. Police brutality. Institutional racism against African Americans [1] [2] Reaction to the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Economic, racial and social inequality [2]
1904 – Great Fire of Toronto, April 19 fire that destroyed a large section of Downtown Toronto, Canada. 1905 – Watson Street Lodging House fire in Glasgow, Scotland on November 19, killed 39. [5] 1908 – Rhoads Opera House fire, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killed 170. [6] 1908 – Parker Building, New York City, January 10.
Barbary Coast, San Francisco. Coordinates: 37.79656°N 122.40593°W. The shipping docks of Buena Vista Cove at the east end of Pacific Street during the 1860s (San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library) The Barbary Coast was a red-light district during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries in San Francisco that ...