Fairfield is a city in and the county seat of Solano County,California,United States,in the North Bay sub-region of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Suisun City is a city in Solano County,California,United States. The population was 29,518 at the 2020 census.
The Wah Mee massacre was a mass shooting that occurred during the night of February 18–19,1983,in the Wah Mee gambling club at the Louisa Hotel in Seattle,Washington,United States. Fourteen people were bound,robbed and shot by three gunmen,22-year-old Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak,20-year old Keung Kin "Benjamin" Ng and 25-year-old Wai Chiu "Tony" Ng. Thirteen of the victims died,but 61-year-old Wai Yok Chin,a former U.S. Navy sailor and Pai Gow dealer at the Wah Mee,survived to testify against the three in the separate high-profile trials held between 1983 and 1985.
Gee Jon was a Chinese national who was the first person in the United States to be executed by lethal gas. A member of the Hip Sing Tong criminal society from San Francisco,California,Gee was sentenced to death for the murder of Tom Quong Kee,who was a member of the rivaling Bing Kung Tong in Mina,Nevada. An unsuccessful attempt to pump poison gas directly into his cell at Nevada State Prison led to the development of the gas chamber.
The Golden Dragon massacre was a gang-related mass shooting that took place on September 4,1977,inside the Golden Dragon Restaurant at 822 Washington Street in Chinatown,San Francisco,California,United States. The five perpetrators,members of the Joe Boys,a Chinese youth gang,were attempting to kill leaders of the Wah Ching,a rival Chinatown gang. The attack left five people dead and 11 others injured,none of whom were gang members. Seven perpetrators were later convicted and sentenced in connection with the murders. The massacre led to the establishment of the San Francisco Police Department's Asian Gang Task Force,credited with ending gang-related violence in Chinatown by 1983. The restaurant itself closed in 2006.
Wah Ching is a Chinese American criminal organization and street gang that was founded in San Francisco,California in 1964. The Wah Ching has been involved in crimes including narcotic sales,racketeering,and gambling.
The Suisunes were a Patwin tribe of Wintun people,originating in the Suisun Bay and Suisun Marsh regions of Solano County in Northern California. Their traditional homelands stretched between what is now Suisun City,Vacaville and Putah Creek around 200 years ago. The Suisunes' main village,Yulyul,is believed to be where Rockville,California is located today. Father Abella,visitor to the tribe in 1811,indicated they resided in the present location of Fairfield,north of the Suisun Bay. One of the Suisunes' primary food sources was acorns. Their diet also included fish as well as miner's lettuce. Their huts were conical wikiups made of rushes or tule thatch.
The Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871 was a racial massacre targeting Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles,California,United States that occurred on October 24,1871. Approximately 500 white and Latino Americans attacked,harassed,robbed,and murdered the ethnic Chinese residents in what is today referred to as the old Chinatown neighborhood. The massacre took place on Calle de los Negros,also referred to as "Negro Alley". The mob gathered after hearing that a policeman and a rancher had been killed as a result of a conflict between rival tongs,the Nin Yung,and Hong Chow. As news of their death spread across the city,fueling rumors that the Chinese community "were killing whites wholesale",more men gathered around the boundaries of Negro Alley.
The Legend of the Condor Heroes is a Hong Kong wuxia television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. It was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in 1983. The 59 episodes long series is divided into three parts.The serial was re-aired in 1990,1995-1996,2012-2013,and 2024 on TVB Jade.
Sem-Yeto was a leader of the Suisunes,a Patwin people of the Suisun Bay region of northern California. Baptized as Francisco Solano and also known as Chief Solano,he was a notable Native American leader in Alta California because of his alliance,friendship,and eventually the support of his entire tribe to General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo of Sonoma,in military and political excursions around Sonoma County and the San Francisco Bay Area. By allying with Vallejo and assisting him in quelling Native American uprisings north and west of Sonoma between 1836 and 1843,Sem-Yeto is regarded as a controversial historical figure. The California county of Solano is named for him.
Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Kwok-Cheung Chow is a Hong Kong-born felon with ties to a San Francisco Chinatown street gang and an organized crime syndicate,including the American branch of the Hong Kong-based triad Wo Hop To and the Hop Sing Boys.
The Wineville Chicken Coop murders,also known as the Wineville Chicken murders,were a series of abductions and murders of young boys that occurred in the city of Los Angeles and in Riverside County,California,United States between 1926 and 1928. The murders were perpetrated by Gordon Stewart Northcott,a 19-year-old farmer who had moved to the U.S. from Canada two years earlier,as well as his mother,Sarah Louise Northcott,and his nephew,Sanford Clark.
Rockville is a small unincorporated community in northern-central Solano County,California,southwest of Fairfield and closest to Cordelia.
The Hop Sing Tong is a Chinese American Tong that was established in 1875.
Rancho Suisun was a 18,237-acre (73.80 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Solano County,California given in 1842 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Francisco Solano Indian chief and Captain in the Mexican Army. The rancho lands include the present-day city of Fairfield,California.
The Daily Republic is a daily newspaper in the town of Fairfield,California. It is owned by McNaughton Newspapers.
The Joe Boys,or JBS,was a Chinese American youth gang founded in the 1960s in San Francisco's Chinatown. The Joe Boys were originally known as Joe Fong Boys,after its founder Joe Fong,a former member of the Wah Ching. Most of their members were born in Hong Kong or were of Hong Kongese descent.
The Tong Wars were a series of violent disputes beginning in the late 19th century among rival Chinese Tong factions centered in the Chinatowns of various American cities,in particular San Francisco. Tong wars could be triggered by a variety of inter-gang grievances,from the public besmirching of another Tong's honor,to failure to make full payment for a "slave girl",to the murder of a rival Tong member. Each Tong had salaried soldiers,known as boo how doy,who fought in Chinatown alleys and streets over the control of opium,prostitution,gambling,and territory.
The murder of Gon Ying Louis occurred on September 30,1909,when her stepson,Willie,shot her as she slept in the family home at Palm and Corro streets,San Luis Obispo,California,next to a general store which is now a historic monument. His father was Ah Louis,a wealthy banker,labor contractor,farmer,and shopkeeper.
