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1992
Fires blaze across Oakland
hills killing 26 people and burning
3,000 houses
2002
3Com Park naming rights
expire, and stadium becomes
Candlestick Park again
1995
Candlestick
Park renamed
3Com Park
2007
Residents experience an
earthquake measuring 4.2 on
the Richter scale
2000
Opening
game played at
Pacific Bell Park
(now AT&T Park)
2010
San Francisco Giants win
the World Series; the first win
since the Giants relocated to
San Francisco in 1958
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
2012
San Francisco Giants
win the World Series again
1994
Presidio
Army Base
turned over to
the National
Park Service
2008
The Contemporary
Jewish Museum, designed
by Daniel Libeskind, opens
2006
San Francisco congresswoman
Nancy Pelosi is the first woman to
become elected Speaker of the United
States House of Representatives
1989
Major earthquake hits San
Francisco during World Series baseball
game between Bay Area rivals: freeways
collapse, killing dozens
1999
After 15 years as the speaker of the
California Assembly, Democrat Willie Brown is
sworn in as San Francisco's first black mayor
