Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/94

1921

Stanford Stadium in 1921

USS Conestoga

• San Jose engineer Charles Herrold, after experimenting with radio broadcasting since 1909, receives a commercial license under the callsign KQW
• KLX, owned by Oakland Tribune publisher Joseph R. Knowland, begins broadcasting out of Oakland
• San Jose Junior College is established
• The original Stanford Stadium (pictured) is completed on the Stanford University campus, as the home of the Stanford Cardinal football team
• The University of California Museum of Paleontology opens at the University of California, Berkeley, to hold fossils gathered during the 1860-1867 California Geological Survey
• The USS Conestoga (pictured) goes missing after leaving Mare Island