Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/36
Appearance
1979
![Rioters at SF City Hall](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Rioters_outside_San_Francisco_City_Hall_May_21_1979.jpg/100px-Rioters_outside_San_Francisco_City_Hall_May_21_1979.jpg)
![SF Mayor Dianne Feinstein](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Mayor_Diane_Feinstein_Cable_Car.jpeg/70px-Mayor_Diane_Feinstein_Cable_Car.jpeg)
- 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]]