Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/36

1979

Rioters at SF City Hall

SF Mayor Dianne Feinstein

• The body of Tammy Vincent is found in Tiburon
• The White Night riots (pictured) erupt in San Francisco
• Dianne Feinstein (pictured) is elected mayor of San Francisco
• The Gilroy Garlic Festival is founded
• Huey Lewis and the News is formed in San Francisco
• Experimental music group Negativland is formed in Concord
• Data storage company Seagate Technology is founded in Cupertino
• David Carpenter commits his first trailside killings in the Bay Area
• An earthquake strikes with an epicenter near Coyote Lake in Santa Clara County, California|Santa Clara County]]