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After multiple withdrawals that left only Paris and Los Angeles in contention, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved a process to concurrently award the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics to the two remaining candidate cities; both of the bids were praised for high technical plans and innovative ways to use a record-breaking number of ...
On April 18, 1958, the Los Angeles Dodgers played their first game in LA, defeating the former New York and now new San Francisco Giants, 6–5, before 78,672 fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. [1] Sadly, catcher Roy Campanella, left partially paralyzed in an off-season accident, was never able to play for Los Angeles.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Los Angeles Branch is one of four branches of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The branch is located in Los Angeles , [1] and opened January 2, 1920.
Soldiers direct traffic away from an area of South Central Los Angeles burning during the 1965 Watts riots. 1967 Newark riots. The nation experienced a series of "long hot summers" of civil unrest during the Johnson years. They started with the Harlem riots in 1964, and the Watts district of Los Angeles in 1965. The momentum for the advancement ...
Televised nationally by ESPN on Monday Night Football, the game was won by the Rams, 54–51, The two teams combined for 105 points, including 21 scored by defenses, and the game set numerous other records: the highest-scoring Monday Night Football game, the highest score by a losing team in NFL history (to date, the Chiefs are the only team in ...
Many lived in or near the small Pueblo of Los Angeles (present-day Los Angeles). [2] Many other Californios lived on the 455 ranchos of Alta California , which contained slightly more than 8,600,000 acres (35,000 km 2 ), nearly all bestowed by the Spanish and then Mexican governors with an average of about 18,900 acres (76 km 2 ) each.
On September 18, in front of over 91,000 fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Rams beat the Seattle Seahawks 9–3 in their first home regular-season game in Los Angeles since 1994, and their first game at the Coliseum since 1979. [89] On December 12, 2016, the team fired head coach Jeff Fisher after starting the season 4–9. [90]
Horse-drawn streetcar in front of the first Los Angeles federal courthouse and post office, c. 1892 James C. Corman Federal Building at Van Nuys Government Center. This is a list of Los Angeles federal buildings, meaning past or present United States federal buildings located within the city of Los Angeles.