{"slug": "san-diego", "label": "San Diego", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16552", "qid": "Q16552", "description": "seat of San Diego County, California, United States; second-largest city in California", "entries": 10, "years": 10, "span": [1542, 1997], "span_label": ["1542 CE", "1997 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "california", "label": "California", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "san-francisco", "label": "San Francisco", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "president-of-the-united-states", "label": "President of the United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charles-iii-of-spain", "label": "Charles III of Spain", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1542, "year_label": "1542 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 28", "text": "September 28 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo lands in what is now San Diego Bay, and names it \"San Miguel\", claiming it for the Spanish Empire. San Miguel will later become the city of San Diego. This marks the first time a European sees what is now the U.S. state of California.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359947406#July–September", "title": "1542", "revid": 1359947406, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1749, "year_label": "1749 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 7", "text": "December 7 – Father Junípero Serra begins his missionary work in the New World, 100 days after departing on a voyage from Spain and a day after his arrival at Veracruz in Mexico. During the period from 1769 to 1782, Serra will be the founder of nine missions in the Province of Las Californias, including the sites around which future California cities will be built, including Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá in 1769 and Mission San Francisco de Asís in 1776.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360727483#October–December", "title": "1749", "revid": 1360727483, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1769, "year_label": "1769 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 14", "text": "May 14 – Charles III of Spain sends Spanish missionaries, who found California missions in San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Monterey, and begin the settlement of California.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354215144#April–June", "title": "1769", "revid": 1354215144, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1905, "year_label": "1905 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 21", "text": "July 21 – Sixty members of the crew of the USS Bennington are killed in an explosion of the U.S. Navy gunboat in the harbor at San Diego.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373341358#July", "title": "1905", "revid": 1373341358, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1939, "year_label": "1939 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 28", "text": "March 28 – American adventurer Richard Halliburton delivers a last message from a Chinese junk, before he disappears on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean. In 1945, some wreckage identified as a rudder, and believed to belong to the junk, washes ashore in San Diego, California.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372426050#March", "title": "1939", "revid": 1372426050, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1978, "year_label": "1978 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "September 25", "text": "September 25 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California; 144 are killed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022681#September", "title": "1978", "revid": 1370022681, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1984, "year_label": "1984 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 18", "text": "July 18 – San Ysidro McDonald's massacre: 41-year-old James Huberty walks into a McDonald's in the San Ysidro district of San Diego, resulting in 21 deaths, with Huberty being killed by a sniper 77 minutes after the ordeal begins.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371242779#July", "title": "1984", "revid": 1371242779, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1995, "year_label": "1995 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 17", "text": "May 17 – 1995 San Diego tank rampage: In San Diego, Shawn Nelson steals an M60A3 tank from a local California Army National Guard armory and goes on a rampage for 25 minutes, damaging over $149,201 of property. The rampage ended when San Diego police forced the hatch open and fatally shot him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372467239#May", "title": "1995", "revid": 1372467239, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1996, "year_label": "1996 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 15", "text": "August 15 – Bob Dole is nominated for President of the United States, and Jack Kemp for vice president, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego, California.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371596794#August", "title": "1996", "revid": 1371596794, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1997, "year_label": "1997 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 24", "text": "March 24–26 – In San Diego, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367978156#March", "title": "1997", "revid": 1367978156, "section": "Events › March"}}]}