Not Your Century
San Francisco Chronicle
Not Your Century
San Francisco Chronicle
Wednesday 18 March 2020 : With the San Francisco Chronicle focusing its editorial resources on the coronavirus pandemic and its effects, Not Your Century is going on...
Monday 16 March 2020 : The 23-year-old religious and spiritual leader of Tibet gets an invitation from the occupying Chinese to come to a dance performance....
Friday 13 March 2020 : He's a giant of silent comedies, in more ways than one. Hollywood's first million-dollar star is a baby-faced man-mountain with the grace of...
Wednesday 11 March 2020 : A century before the COVID-19 coronavirus, the United States, like all combatants in the Great War, wants to keep the exploding flu crisis...
Monday 09 March 2020 : As an 18-year-old, Tracy Sims was the leader of civil rights protests that forced San Francisco hotels to end hiring discrimination. Now...
Friday 06 March 2020 : "That's the way it is," says the Most Trusted Man in America — for the last time, as he retires from anchoring the CBS Evening News. It's...
Wednesday 04 March 2020 : In a college gym in small-town Missouri, former Prime Minister Winston Churchill tries to shake Americans out of their postwar bliss by...
Monday 02 March 2020 : When a commotion outside his apartment woke George Holliday up at 1 a.m., the plumber grabbed his new camcorder and went out to his balcony....
Friday 28 February 2020 : The Mitchell Brothers, Jim and "Party Artie," revolutionized the adult entertainment business, first with their O'Farrell Theatre in San...
Wednesday 26 February 2020 : In the wake of the Fusion and Netflix series "Who Killed Malcolm X?" the New York D.A. has reopened the case of Muhammad Abdul Aziz, then...
Monday 24 February 2020 : AP Photographer Joe Rosenthal had one chance to get what would become one of the most iconic pictures in history. He didn't miss. After the...
Friday 21 February 2020 : The lifelong anti-Communist shocks the world by initiating the first high-level contact with the People's Republic in more than 20 years....
Wednesday 19 February 2020 : Total SF host Peter Hartlaub joins King Kaufman to talk about the most infamous headline in San Francisco history and the man behind it,...
Monday 17 February 2020 : Chief engineer Joseph Strauss' massive safety net had saved 12 construction workers who'd fallen during construction. They called themselves...
Friday 14 February 2020 : In the most famous hit in American mob history, seven members of Bugs Moran's North Side Gang are gunned down, cementing control of Chicago...
Wednesday 12 February 2020 : Despite a GOP majority in the Senate, President Bill Clinton is easily acquitted on both articles of impeachment stemming from his lies...
Monday 10 February 2020 : Sparks fly at a San Francisco panel on changing sexual mores as anthropologist Margaret Mead suggests a new kind of marriage and promotes...
Friday 07 February 2020 : The big Bay Area business news of the day is Wells Fargo buying Crocker Bank. Nobody knew the computer graphics division of Lucasfilms would...
Wednesday 05 February 2020 : Seven years before Gov. George Wallace's Stand in the Schoolhouse Door, Autherine Lucy integrates the University of Alabama. But she's...
Monday 03 February 2020 : They were the gang that couldn't bomb straight. Their plan to blow up court records was dumb, they didn't know anything about dynamite, and...
Friday 31 January 2020 : As the Union nears victory in the Civil War, a constitutional amendment that would ban slavery wins a close vote. All that's needed now is...
Wednesday 29 January 2020 : An 8-part miniseries about slavery told from the point of view of the slaves? ABC acted like it was afraid its adaptation of Alex Haley's...
Monday 27 January 2020 : After a circus of a trial, the leader of a murderous "family" and three female followers are guilty on all charges in the Tate-Labianca...
Friday 24 January 2020 : When Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi of the Imperial Japanese Army is captured on Guam, the first thing he asks is whether FDR has died yet. Well, yes,...
Wednesday 22 January 2020 : Britain mourns its longest-reigning monarch, who dies after nearly 64 years on the throne. Her screw-up, playboy son Bertie is about to be...
Not Your Century
San Francisco Chronicle
2020: Not Your Century Goes on Hiatus
With the San Francisco Chronicle focusing its editorial resources on the coronavirus pandemic and its effects, Not Your Century is going on...
1959: The Dalai Lama Escapes
The 23-year-old religious and spiritual leader of Tibet gets an invitation from the occupying Chinese to come to a dance performance....
1922: Fatty Arbuckle's Third Trial
He's a giant of silent comedies, in more ways than one. Hollywood's first million-dollar star is a baby-faced man-mountain with the grace of...
1918: The Flu Pandemic
A century before the COVID-19 coronavirus, the United States, like all combatants in the Great War, wants to keep the exploding flu crisis...
1964: The Palace Hotel Protest Leader
As an 18-year-old, Tracy Sims was the leader of civil rights protests that forced San Francisco hotels to end hiring discrimination. Now...
1981: Walter Cronkite Signs Off
"That's the way it is," says the Most Trusted Man in America — for the last time, as he retires from anchoring the CBS Evening News. It's...
1946: Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
In a college gym in small-town Missouri, former Prime Minister Winston Churchill tries to shake Americans out of their postwar bliss by...
1991: The Rodney King Beating
When a commotion outside his apartment woke George Holliday up at 1 a.m., the plumber grabbed his new camcorder and went out to his balcony....
1991: Murder in Porn's First Family
The Mitchell Brothers, Jim and "Party Artie," revolutionized the adult entertainment business, first with their O'Farrell Theatre in San...
1965: Malcolm X Suspect Arrested
In the wake of the Fusion and Netflix series "Who Killed Malcolm X?" the New York D.A. has reopened the case of Muhammad Abdul Aziz, then...
1945: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
AP Photographer Joe Rosenthal had one chance to get what would become one of the most iconic pictures in history. He didn't miss. After the...
1972: Nixon Arrives in China
The lifelong anti-Communist shocks the world by initiating the first high-level contact with the People's Republic in more than 20 years....
1963: A Great City Forced to Drink Swill
Total SF host Peter Hartlaub joins King Kaufman to talk about the most infamous headline in San Francisco history and the man behind it,...
1937: Golden Gate Bridge Disaster
Chief engineer Joseph Strauss' massive safety net had saved 12 construction workers who'd fallen during construction. They called themselves...
1929: St. Valentine's Day Massacre
In the most famous hit in American mob history, seven members of Bugs Moran's North Side Gang are gunned down, cementing control of Chicago...
1999: Impeachment Acquittal
Despite a GOP majority in the Senate, President Bill Clinton is easily acquitted on both articles of impeachment stemming from his lies...
1967: The Pill and the Puritan Ethic
Sparks fly at a San Francisco panel on changing sexual mores as anthropologist Margaret Mead suggests a new kind of marriage and promotes...
1986: Steve Jobs Buys Pixar
The big Bay Area business news of the day is Wells Fargo buying Crocker Bank. Nobody knew the computer graphics division of Lucasfilms would...
1956: Integration Fail at Alabama
Seven years before Gov. George Wallace's Stand in the Schoolhouse Door, Autherine Lucy integrates the University of Alabama. But she's...
1997: Vallejo Courthouse Bombing
They were the gang that couldn't bomb straight. Their plan to blow up court records was dumb, they didn't know anything about dynamite, and...
1865: 13th Amendment Passes House
As the Union nears victory in the Civil War, a constitutional amendment that would ban slavery wins a close vote. All that's needed now is...
1977: "Roots" Is a Sensation
An 8-part miniseries about slavery told from the point of view of the slaves? ABC acted like it was afraid its adaptation of Alex Haley's...
1971: Charles Manson Convicted
After a circus of a trial, the leader of a murderous "family" and three female followers are guilty on all charges in the Tate-Labianca...
1972: Japan Holdout Soldier Found
When Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi of the Imperial Japanese Army is captured on Guam, the first thing he asks is whether FDR has died yet. Well, yes,...
1901: Queen Victoria Dies
Britain mourns its longest-reigning monarch, who dies after nearly 64 years on the throne. Her screw-up, playboy son Bertie is about to be...
