What the records say
- When
- May 1979
- Kind
- Protest
- Coordinates
- 37.77° N, 122.42° W
- Description
- series of riots in San Francisco, California
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
White Night riots
1979 riots in San Francisco, California, US
The White Night riots were a series of violent events sparked by an announcement of a lenient sentencing of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco, and of Harvey Milk, a member of the city's Board of Supervisors who was one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. The events took place on the night of May 21, 1979, in San Francisco.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Dan White is convicted of manslaughter, rather than murder, for the assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, after using…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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