Timeline of San Francisco

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San Francisco, California, United States.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to the 1800s

• 1776 – Presidio of San Francisco and Mission San Francisco de Asís established by colonists from Spain.
• 1791 – Mission San Francisco de Asís building dedicated.

1800s

• 1847
  • Yerba Buena renamed "San Francisco."
  • City hotel built. ^[1]
• 1848
  • Territory ceded from Mexico to the United States per Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
  • California Gold Rush begins. ^[2]
• 1849
  • St. Francis hotel built. ^[1]
  • Boudin Bakery, Olympic Amphitheatre, ^[3] and Union Iron Works ^[4] in business.
  • West Indian Benevolent Association established. ^[5]
• 1850
  • April 15: City of San Francisco incorporated. ^{[6] [2]}
  • May 1: John W. Geary becomes mayor.
  • October 29: San Francisco becomes part of the new U.S. State of California.
  • Chamber of Commerce ^[7] Society of California Pioneers, ^[8] and Jenny Lind Theatre ^[3] established.
  • Population: 34,000. ^[2]
• 1851
  • May 3–4: Fire. ^[9]
  • San Francisco Committee of Vigilance organized.
  • Pioneer Race Course opens.
• 1852
  • Ghirardelli in business.
  • Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco, Sons of the Emerald Isle, and San Francisco Turn Verein established. ^[8]
  • The Golden Era newspaper begins publication.
• 1853 – California Academy of Sciences, YMCA, ^[8] and Russ garden ^[1] established.
• 1854
  • San Francisco Mechanics' Institute established.
  • Lone Mountain Cemetery established ^[10]
• 1855 – Hebrew Young Men's Literary Assoc. active. ^[11]
• 1856 – Mirror of the Times ^[5] and Daily Morning Call ^[12] newspapers begin publication.
• 1857 – California State Convention of Colored Citizens, a colored convention, held in city. ^[13]
• 1858 – Italian Benevolent Society organized. ^[8]
• 1859 – San Francisco Schuetzen-Verein founded. ^[14]
• 1860
  • March 27: Japanese embassy arrives. ^[15]
  • Olympic Club founded. ^[16]
  • Population: 56,802. ^[17]
• 1861
  • Overland Telegraph Company begins operating (New York-San Francisco). ^[9]
  • Fraternitas Rosae Crucis lodge established. ^[18]
• 1862
  • Heald's Business College ^[19] and Franchise League ^[5] established.
  • The San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange was founded. ^[20]
• 1863
  • San Francisco and San Jose Railroad begins operating soon.
  • St. Andrew's Society founded. ^[8]
  • Cliff House rebuilt.
  • Charlotte L. Brown sues a racially segregated San Francisco streetcar company and wins. ^[21]
• 1864 –
  • Concordia-Argonaut Club founded.
  • Hugh Toland found the Toland Medical College, which would later become the University of California, San Francisco
• 1865 – Daily Examiner and Daily Dramatic Chronicle newspapers begin publication. ^[12]
• 1866 – Merchants' Exchange Association, Caledonian Club, ^[8] and Woodward's Gardens ^[1] established.
• 1867
  • Street begging ban effected. ^[22]
  • San Francisco City and County Almshouse opens. ^[23]
• 1868 – San Francisco County Medical Society ^[8] and Women's Co-operative Printing Office established.
• 1869
  • California Theatre opens.
  • San Francisco Yacht Club founded. ^[8]
  • Grand hotel built. ^[1]
  • Central Pacific Railroad line to Oakland completed. ^[2]
• 1870
  • Golden Gate Park ^[9] and San Francisco Microscopical Society ^[24] established.
  • Population: 149,473. ^[17]
• 1871 – San Francisco Art Association and St. Luke's Hospital ^{[14] [25]} established.
• 1872 – Bohemian Club and Bar Association of San Francisco founded. ^[8]
• 1873
  • Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating.
  • Polish Society of California organized. ^[8]
• 1874 – California School of Design, and Territorial Pioneers of California ^[8] established.
• 1875
  • Palace Hotel in business. ^[1]
  • Fire patrol established. ^[14]
• 1876
  • Pioneer Park, Pacific Homeopathic Dispensary Association, and Ligue Nationale Francaise established. ^[8]
  • Railway connexion to Los Angeles. ^[2]
• 1877
  • Board of Trade, Spanish Mutual Benevolent Society, ^[8] and Workingmen's Party of California ^[26] established.
  • Anti-Chinese sentiment leads to riots against Chinatown residents and businesses. ^[27]
  • Baldwin hotel built. ^[1]
• 1878 – San Francisco Public Library, ^{[28] [29]} Pacific Yacht Club, and Young Women's Christian Association founded. ^[8]
• 1879 – Golden Gate Kindergarten Association organized. ^[14]
• 1880 – California State Convention of Colored Citizens, a colored convention, held in city. ^[30]
• 1881 – Geographical Society of the Pacific organized. ^[8]
• 1883 – Pacific Coast Amateur Photographic Association headquartered in city. ^[31]
• 1887 – Cogswell Polytechnical College established. ^[19]
• 1888 – Associated Charities ^[14] and San Francisco Business College ^[19] established.
• 1889 – Pacific-Union Club formed.
• 1890
  • California Camera Club ^[32] and University Club of San Francisco established.
  • Population: 298,997. ^[2]
• 1891 – Gregg Shorthand school established. ^[19]
• 1892
  • Hibernia Bank built. ^[33]
  • Trocadero Hotel opens.
• 1893 – Mark Hopkins Institute of Art established. ^[34]
• 1894
  • Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts established. ^[35]
  • California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 held; Japanese Tea Garden built.
• 1895
  • California School of Mechanical Arts established. ^[35]
  • M. H. de Young Memorial Museum opens as Golden Gate Park Museum. ^[36]
• 1896 – Sutro Baths open.
• 1898
  • San Francisco Ferry Building opens.
  • City rechartered. ^[9]
  • League of California Municipalities headquartered in city. ^[37]
  • Buddhist temple founded. ^{[38] [39]}
• 1899
  • San Francisco State Normal School established.
  • City Hall built.
• 1900 – Population: 342,782. ^{[40] [2]}

1900s

1900s–1940s

• 1901
  • Labor strike of restaurant workers. ^[41]
  • San Francisco Architectural Club organized. ^[36]
• 1902 – Eugene Schmitz becomes mayor.
• 1905 – 1908: San Francisco graft trials
• 1906 – April 18: Earthquake and fires. ^{[42] [2]}
• 1907
  • July: Mayor Eugene Schmitz imprisoned. ^[9]
  • International Hotel built.
  • A. Mutt comic strip begins publication in the San Francisco Chronicle .
• 1908 – South San Francisco incorporated near city. ^[43]
• 1910
  • San Francisco Housing Association organized. ^[44]
  • Population: 416,912. ^[2]
• 1911
  • San Francisco Symphony founded.
  • Cort theatre opens. ^[45]
• 1912
  • Lux School for Industrial Training for Girls opens.
  • Book Club of California established. ^[46]
  • James Rolph becomes mayor.
  • Tadich Grill in business. ^[47]
• 1914 – San Francisco National Guard Armory and Arsenal built.
• 1915
  • January 25: First transcontinental telephone call occurs (San Francisco-New York).
  • February 20: Panama–Pacific International Exposition opens; Tower of Jewels built.
  • San Francisco Labor Temple built.
  • San Francisco City Hall rebuilt.
  • Veterans Auditorium opens.
• 1916
  • Preparedness Day Bombing. ^[48]
  • Legal Aid Society established.^{[ citation needed ]}
  • Buena Vista Cafe in business.
• 1917 – Strand Theater built. ^{[45] [33]}
• 1922 – Golden Gate Theatre, and Castro Theatre built. ^[49]
• 1923
  • January: Mae Nolan becomes U.S. representative for California's 5th congressional district. ^[50]
  • August 2: US President Harding dies in the Palace Hotel. ^[42]
• 1924
  • California Palace of the Legion of Honor opens.
  • April 24th, opening of the Metropolitan Theatre in Cow Hollow ^[51]
• 1925
  • Fleishhacker Pool built.
  • Florence Prag Kahn becomes U.S. representative for California's 4th congressional district. ^[52]
• 1926 – Playland at the Beach in business.
• 1927 – San Francisco Municipal Airport dedicated. ^[9]
• 1928 – Amazon Theater opens. ^[45]
• 1929
  • Fleishhacker Zoo established.
  • Topsy's Roost (restaurant) in business.
• 1930 – Pacific Stock Exchange Lunch Club formed.
• 1931
  • Stern Grove opens as city park.
  • El Rey Theatre opens ^[53]
• 1932
  • War Memorial Opera House opens.
  • Photographers' Group f/64 founded. ^[54]
• 1933
  • San Francisco Opera Ballet founded.
  • Coit Tower built.
• 1934
  • May 9: General Strike begins. ^[48]
  • U.S. Penitentiary established on Alcatraz Island.
  • Golden Grain Macaroni Company in business.
• 1935 – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opens as San Francisco Museum of Art in Veterans Memorial Building.
• 1936 – Bay Bridge opens. ^[55]
• 1937 – May 27: Golden Gate Bridge opens. ^[9]
• 1940 – Holly Courts housing project built. ^[9]
• 1944 – Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples established. ^[56]
• 1945
  • Tonga Room in business.
  • April 25: United Nations Conference on International Organization begins.
  • June 26: United Nations Charter signed.
• 1946 – National Urban League branch ^[57] and Marines' Memorial Club established.
• 1949 – Presidio Theatre built. ^[49]

1950s–1990s

• 1952 – The Purple Onion nightclub in business.
• 1953 – City Lights Bookstore in business. ^[48]
• 1955 – City Lights Pocket Poets Series begins publication.
  • Allen Ginsberg reads his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery
• 1957
  • San Francisco International Film Festival founded.
  • Caffe Trieste in business. ^[58]
  • Sister city relationship established with Osaka, Japan. ^[59]
  • The San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange (formed in 1882) and the Los Angeles Oil Exchange (formed in 1899) merge to create the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange. ^[20]
• 1959 – Embarcadero Freeway opens.
• 1960 – Mandarin restaurant in business. ^[60]
• 1963– The Reverend Cecil Williams becomes pastor at Glide Memorial Church, shifting the church's politics to the left. ^[61]
• 1964 – City's "San Francisco History Center" established.
• 1965 – Intersection for the Arts incorporated.
  • The musical group the Jefferson Airplane is created.
• 1966– The Compton's Cafeteria riot breaks out when transgender patrons become angry over police harassment. ^[62]
• 1967 – Summer of Love.
  • January: The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate park, a prelude to the Summer of Love.
  • The anarchist group The Diggers is founded, and begins distributing free food. ^[63]
• 1968 – Sister city relationship established with Sydney, Australia. ^[59]
  • The Church of John Coltrane is established, and continues religious services until 2016. ^[64]
• 1969
  • 555 California Street built.
  • Sister city relationships established with Assisi, Italy; and Taipei, Taiwan. ^[59]
  • The San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner receive their first letters from The Zodiac Killer. ^[65]
• 1970 – Regional Metropolitan Transportation Commission established.
• 1971 – Peoples Temple in San Francisco and Church of the Tree of Life ^[18] established.
• 1972
  • San Francisco Pride begins.
  • Golden Gate National Recreation Area established.
  • Transamerica Pyramid built.
• 1973
  • October: Zebra murders begin. ^[66]
  • Church of the Gentle Brothers and Sisters incorporated. ^[18]
  • Sister city relationship established with Haifa, Israel. ^[59]
• 1974
  • People's Food System active (approximate date). ^[67]
  • Southern Exposure (art space) ^[68] and San Francisco Cable Car Museum established.
  • April 15: Hibernia Bank robbery by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
• 1975
  • Rainbow Grocery Cooperative opens. ^[67]
  • Sister city relationship established with Seoul, South Korea. ^[59]
  • September 22: Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in front of the St. Francis Hotel by firing two gunshots at Ford; both shots missed.
• 1976 – Bay Area Video Coalition founded.
• 1977
  • Theatre Rhinoceros and Suicide Club founded.
  • Golden Dragon massacre
  • San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association active.
• 1978
  • June 25: Rainbow flag (LGBT movement) introduced.
  • November 18: Jonestown mass murder-suicide at the People's Temple Guyana compound.
  • November 27: Moscone–Milk assassinations.
  • December 4: Dianne Feinstein becomes mayor.
• 1979
  • The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence make their first appearance on Castro Street.
  • May 21: White Night riots.
  • Sister city relationship established with Shanghai, China. ^[59]
• 1980 – Davies Symphony Hall opens.
• 1981
  • San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and Hansberry Theatre established.
  • Sister city relationship established with Manila, Philippines. ^[59]
• 1982 – City/county handgun ban approved; later struck down by state court. ^[66]
• 1983
  • San Francisco General Hospital AIDS clinic established. ^[69]
  • The first San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival takes place.
• 1984 – Sister city relationship established with Cork, Ireland. ^[59]
• 1986
  • Cacophony Society formed.
  • A bonfire of a wooden man is held on Baker Beach which evolves into the Burning Man event. ^[70]
  • Sister city relationship established with Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. ^[59]
• 1987 – Luggage Store (arts organization) established. ^[68]
• 1988 – San Francisco Museum and Historical Society founded.
• 1989
  • October 17: Loma Prieta earthquake.
  • San Francisco becomes a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants. ^[71]
• 1990
  • Population: 723,959. ^[17]
  • Sister city relationship established with Thessaloniki, Greece. ^[59]
• 1991 – Museum of the City of San Francisco opens. ^[72]
• 1992
  • Critical Mass (bicycle event) began.
  • Clarion Alley Mural Project organized.
  • Latino Coalition for a Healthy California headquartered in city.
• 1993
  • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts opens.
  • 101 California Street shooting occurs. ^[66]
• 1994 – Santarchy begins.
• 1995
  • Craigslist founded.
  • Sister city relationship established with Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. ^[59]
• 1996
  • City website online (approximate date). ^{[73] [ chronology citation needed ]}
  • Willie Brown becomes mayor.
  • Internet Archive headquartered in city. ^[74]
  • Long Now Foundation established.
• 1997
  • Sister city relationship established with Paris, France. ^[59]
  • Pinecrest Diner, a popular all-night diner-style restaurant in San Francisco, becomes notorious for a murder over an order of eggs. ^[75]
• 1998 – Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts founded. ^[68]
• 2000 – Population: 776,733. ^[40]

2000s

• 2001 - Fatal dog mauling of Diane Whipple.
• 2003
  • Bernal Heights Preservation established. ^[76]
  • U.S. National Security Agency/AT&T Room 641A in operation.
  • Sister city relationship established with Zürich, Switzerland. ^[59]
• 2004 – Gavin Newsom becomes mayor.
• 2005 – November: Gun control ordinance San Francisco Proposition H (2005) passes; later struck down.
• 2006 – the Metro Theatre in Cow Hollow closes ^{[51] [77]}
• 2007
  • Twitter Inc. in business. ^[78]
  • Noisebridge founded. ^[79]
• 2008
  • Edible Schoolyard established at San Francisco Boys and Girls Club.
  • One Rincon Hill (apartment building) constructed.
  • Airbnb in business.
• 2009
  • The Millennium Tower opens, later sinking and tilting.
  • Uber begins operating.
  • FailCon begins.
  • San Francisco Appeal begins publication. ^[80]
  • Sister city relationships established with Bangalore, India; and Kraków, Poland. ^[59]
• 2010
  • The Bay Citizen and Ocean Beach Bulletin begin publication. ^[80]
  • Population: 805,235; metro 4,335,391. ^[81]
  • Sister city relationships established with Amman, Jordan; and Barcelona, Spain. ^[59]
• 2011
  • January 11: Ed Lee becomes mayor.
  • November 8: San Francisco mayoral election, 2011.
  • TechCrunch Disrupt conference begins.
• 2013
  • San Francisco tech bus protests begin.
  • Civic Industries in business. ^[82]
• 2014 – San Francisco Giants baseball team win World Series contest.
• 2015 – Shooting of Kathryn Steinle occurs; a 32-year old woman is killed by a stray bullet fired by an illegal immigrant who was previously deported. The gunman found a gun laying around negligently, and claimed to have fired towards sea lions from a deck, thus hitting a bystander.
• 2020 – Orange Skies Day makes international headlines
• 2023 - Significantly high levels of crime, open-air drug use, homelessness, and closed storefronts have become more prominent features of Union Square. ^[83]
• 2023 - March: Bob Lee was killed in a stabbing.
  • November: San Francisco hosts the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Summit. ^[84]
• 2024 - July: Corazon Dandan is fatally shoved onto a Daly City-bound oncoming BART train, allegedly by a homeless mentally ill individual.
• 2024 - Shooting and wounding of Ricky Pearsall occurs in Union Square, over a robbery involving his Rolex watch allegedly done by a teenage male from Tracy, California.

See also

• History of San Francisco
• National Register of Historic Places listings in San Francisco, California
• List of pre-statehood mayors of San Francisco
• List of mayors of San Francisco (since 1850)
• Timelines of San Francisco's sister cities: Abidjan, Amman, Barcelona, Haifa, Kraków, Manila, Osaka, Paris, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, Zürich
• Timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area
• Timelines of other cities in the Northern California area of California: Fresno, Mountain View, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose

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See also: History of San Francisco § Further reading

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• Joseph Sabin, ed. (1889). "San Francisco". Bibliotheca Americana. Vol. 18. New York. OCLC   13972268.
• Bay of San Francisco, the Metropolis of the Pacific Coast and Its Suburban Cities: a History, Lewis Publishing Company, 1892, OCLC   8666576
• Mary Roberts Smith (1895). "Almshouse Women: A Study of Two Hundred and Twenty-Eight Women in the City and County Almshouse of San Francisco". Publications of the American Statistical Association. 4 (31): 219–262. doi:10.2307/2967126. hdl: 2027/njp.32101020296479 . JSTOR   2967126.
• Faust's pocket map and guide with a complete street directory of San Francisco. H.W. Faust. 1898.

Published in the 1900s

1900s–1940s

• Robert C. Brooks (1901), "San Francisco", Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions, Municipal Affairs, vol. 5 (2nd ed.), New York: Reform Club, OCLC   1855351
• San Francisco-Oakland Directory. Oakland: Walter S. Fry Co. 1907.
• "San Francisco", United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1909, OCLC   02338437
• "San Francisco"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 24 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 144–148.
• Percy V. Long (1912). "Consolidated City and County Government of San Francisco". American Political Science Review. 6 (1): 109–121. JSTOR   4616983.
• Helen Throop Purdy (1912), San Francisco: As it Was, As It Is, and How to See It, P. Elder, OL   20459067M
• Edward Hungerford (1913), "San Francisco: the Newest Phoenix", The Personality of American Cities, New York: McBride, Nast & Company
• Frank Morton Todd (1914), Chamber of Commerce Handbook for San Francisco, San Francisco, OCLC   2650239, OL   23285599M
• Robert Ernest Cowan (1914), "San Francisco", Bibliography of the History of California and the Pacific West, 1510–1906, San Francisco: Book Club of California
• Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin and Albert Bushnell Hart, ed. (1914). "San Francisco". Cyclopedia of American Government. Vol. 3. D. Appleton and Company.
• Crocker-Langley San Francisco Directory. San Francisco: H.S. Crocker Co. 1917. hdl:2027/uc1.31158007441487.
• Samuel Williams (1921). City of the Golden Gate: A Description of San Francisco in 1875. San Francisco: Book Club of California.
• Vandegrift, Rolland A. (1922). "San Francisco"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 32 (12th ed.).
• Directorio comercial de San Francisco, California, 1924 (in Spanish), San Francisco, Calif.: Juan Anino, 1924
• Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Chronology of the San Francisco Bay Region", San Francisco: The Bay and Its Cities, American Guide Series, NY: Hastings House

1950s–1990s

• Around the world in San Francisco: a guide book to the racial and ethnic minorities of the San Francisco-Oakland district, San Francisco: Abbey Press, 1955, OL   22973852M
• Frank Mazzi (1973). "Harbingers of the City: Men and Their Monuments in Nineteenth Century San Francisco". Southern California Quarterly. 55 (2): 141–162. doi:10.2307/41170474. JSTOR   41170474.
• Robert Mayer (1974), Howard B. Furer (ed.), San Francisco: a Chronological & Documentary History, 1542–1970, American Cities Chronology Series, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, ISBN   0379006146
• Neil L. Shumsky (1976). "San Francisco's Workingmen Respond to the Modern City". California Historical Quarterly. 55 (1): 46–57. doi:10.2307/25157608. JSTOR   25157608.
• Maupin, Armistead (1978). Tales of the City. Harper Collins. ISBN   978-0-06-096404-7. OCLC   29847673.
• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (1980). Literary San Francisco: A pictorial history from its beginnings to the present day. Harper & Row. ISBN   978-0-06-250325-1. OCLC   6683688.
• Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "San Francisco", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL   4120668M
• Margolin, Malcolm (1981). The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area. Heydey Books. ISBN   978-0-930588-01-4. OCLC   4628382.
• Joseph A. Blum (1984). "South San Francisco: The Making of an Industrial City". California History. 63 (2): 114–134. doi:10.2307/25158206. JSTOR   25158206.
• Asbury, Hubert (1989). The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld. Dorset Press. ISBN   978-0-88029-428-7. OCLC   22719465.
• Lotchin, Roger W. (1997). San Francisco, 1846–1856: From Hamlet to City. University of Illinois Press. ISBN   978-0-252-06631-3. OCLC   35650934.
• "San Francisco, California". Encyclopedia of Urban America. ABC-CLIO. 1998. ISBN   9780874368468 – via Credo Reference.(subscription required)

Published in the 2000s

• Hartman, Chester (2002). City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco. University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-08605-0. OCLC   48579085.
• San Francisco, Lonely Planet, 2002, OL   8647758M
• Chris Carlsson; Lisa Ruth Elliott, eds. (2010), Ten years that shook the city: San Francisco 1968–1978, San Francisco: City Lights Books, ISBN   978-1931404129
• Solnit, Rebecca. Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (University of California Press, 2010). 144 pp.  ISBN   978-0-520-26250-8
• Richard Hu (2012), Urban Design In Downtown San Francisco: A Paradigm Shift? – via International Planning History Society
• Erica J. Peters (2013). San Francisco: A Food Biography. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN   978-0759121539.
• Susan Crawford; et al. (2014), Community Fiber in Washington, D.C., Seattle, WA, and San Francisco, CA: Developments and Lessons Learned, Berkman Center Research Publication, SSRN   2439429 – via Social Science Research Network
• Michael Kimmelman (May 29, 2014), "Urban Renewal, No Bulldozer: San Francisco Repurposes Old for the Future", New York Times

External links

• "Decades". Found SF. Shaping San Francisco.
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to San Francisco, various dates
• Noah Veltman. "History of SF Place Names".

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