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[edit] 2007

• 5 February - The Queen Mary 2 sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge and docked at San Francisco's Embarcadero for an evening. Thousands statewide received and visited the ship as it entered the bay.

• 31 January - Gavin Newsom's reelection campaign manager Alex Tourk resigns following revelations of an affair between the mayor and Tourk's wife. Newsom would later admit to alcoholism and pledge to seek rehab.

• 28 January - Hayward resident Pfc. Michael Balsley, dies in the war in Iraq.

• 23 January - Eight alleged members of the Black Liberation Army are arrested for the 1971 murder of a police officer in Ingleside.

• 13 January - The T Third Street, MUNI's sixth and newest Muni Metro line, begins operation.

• 9 January - Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone at MacWorld

• 5 January - Google and Earthlink finalize an agreement to provide free wireless internet service throughout the city of San Francisco.

• 4 January - Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA-08) becomes the 60th Speaker of the House, the first Italian-American, the first Californian, and the first woman to serve in that position.

• 3 January - Ronald V. Dellums takes over from Jerry Brown as the 47th mayor of Oakland, two days after Chuck Reed succeeded Ron Gonzales to become the 64th mayor of San Jose.

• 1 January - Citing security and traffic safety concerns, the CHP and SFPD prevent members of Code Pink from marching across the Golden Gate Bridge to protest the Iraq War.

[edit] 2006

• December 28 - The Cal Bears football team wins the Holiday Bowl, beating Texas A&M 45-10. Five days earlier, the San Jose State Spartans football team were victorious in the New Mexico Bowl, defeating the New Mexico Lobos 20-12.

• December 28 - The Department of Transportation, citing rules restricting foreign ownership of airlines, tentatively rejects an operating license to Virgin America. The Burlingame-based company was to have based its operations out of San Francisco International Airport.

• December 23 - The third minor earthquake in four days shakes the Bay Area. Each quake measured around 3.5 to 3.7 on the Richter scale and was centered on the Hayward Fault near Berkeley.

• December 22 - A Siberian tiger mauls its handler at the San Francisco Zoo.

• December 17 - San Mateo resident Yul Kwon wins Survivor: Cook Islands.

• December 13 - Prompted by research plans at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Berkeley City Council passes the nation's first law regulating nanotechnology.

• December 8 - Barry Bonds, embroiled in the BALCO steroids scandal and 21 homeruns shy of Hank Aaron's major league career homerun record, signs a one-year deal to remain with the San Francisco Giants.

• December 7 - Hewlett-Packard agrees to pay $14.5M to settle a lawsuit brought by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer as a result of the pretexting scandal which led to the resignation of board chairwoman Patricia Dunn.

• December 6 - CNET senior editor James Kim is found dead, two days after his wife and children were rescued and nearly two weeks after the Noe Valley family had disappeared in the Oregon wilderness.

• December 5 - Yahoo, struggling to compete with rival Google, announces a major reorganization and the resignation of two top executives.

• November 8 - The San Francisco 49ers announce they will move to Santa Clara, ending negotiations with San Francisco for a new stadium at Candlestick Point and causing the city it to withdraw its Olympic bid.

• November 7 - With the Democrats gaining control of the House in the midterm elections, San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi becomes poised to become Speaker of the House.

• October 5 - Nobel Prizes are awarded to three Bay Area-based scientists: Andrew Fire and Roger Kornberg of Stanford University win for Medicine and Chemistry respectively and George Smoot from UC Berkeley wins for Physics. This brings the total number of Nobel Prize winners based in the Bay Area to 54 over the last 50 years.

• Undated - According to recently released data from Forbes Magazine, 43 of the 400 richest Americans live in the Bay Area. 13 live within San Francisco proper alone, tying it with Moscow and London with the world's largest proportion of billionaires within a city.[1]

• Undated - Oakland's homicide total so far this year has reach 116, a high not seen in years.

• Undated - BART has announced that they are proposing a flat $2.50 fare systemwide.

• Undated - The FBI has declared that San Jose is one of the safest big cities in America, second only to New York City.