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41 unusual facts about San Diego


4S Ranch, California

Lake Hodges forms the northern border of the community while Black Mountain Ranch and Rancho Peñasquitos are to the south.

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.

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..

Blockade of Wonsan

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

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.

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.

Fassionola

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Internal decapitation

On July 31, 2011, United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant David Smith was rear-ended by a drunk driver while sitting on his motorcycle at a stop light in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, California.

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.

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.

José Onuchic

After postdoctoral studies in Santa Barbara, California, and a brief faculty position returning to the University of São Paulo, he moved to the University of California, San Diego in 1990.

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.

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

Leslie Orgel

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.

Louisiana State Route 4

LA 4 was a numbering of the auto trail named the Dixie Overland Highway, a route that spanned from San Diego to Georgia.

M. Brian Maple

He is a Distinguished Professor of Physics and holds the Bernd T. Matthias Chair in the Physics Department at the University of California, San Diego.

María Ruiz de Burton

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.

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.

South Park Historic District

South Park, San Diego, California, one of the major historic urban communities of San Diego and a proposed historic district.

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.

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.

William Leiss

He began his university education in New Jersey, at Fairleigh Dickinson University, graduating in 1956 with a B.A. summa cum laude (major in history and minor in accounting); then in Massachusetts, with a M.A. in the History of Ideas Program at Brandeis University (1963); and finally in La Jolla, California, with a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego (1969).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Charlie Beal

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hryhory Kytasty

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

Jordan Marsh

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

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.

Kendis Gibson

Gibson has also spent time in the hosting world with HGTV's I Want That! and as an evening news anchor for KSWB-TV news in San Diego, California.

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.

Leslie Orgel

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

Life hacking

The term was used in 2004 during the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California by technology journalist Danny O'Brien to describe the "embarrassing" scripts and shortcuts productive IT professionals use to get their work done.

Mark Kersey

Mark Kersey (born c. 1976) is a member of the San Diego City Council representing District 5 in San Diego, California.

Mervyn M. Dymally

Dymally earned his doctorate in human behavior from United States International University in San Diego (now Alliant International University).

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.

Neko Press

He is familiar with Adobe Photoshop and works with Painter X. He has painted live at festivals, clubs, Ray at Night (Mesh), and several other locations and has had galleries all over San Diego, which also include viewings in cafes and stores.

Pearn P. Niiler

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

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 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.

Sid Laverents

He was employed as a sheet metal worker at Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego, California starting in 1941, and with the exception of military service remained with the firm until 1967, by which time it had become part of Convair.

Southern California TRACON

The Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control (SCT) (radio callsign: Socal Approach/Departure) is located in San Diego, California.

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.

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).

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 Extremist

Currently it is used as the intro to the radio show Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw on Jack 100.7 FM in San Diego, California.

Walter E. Mooney

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

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.