An assassin's misfires spare President Andrew Jackson, "The Lone Ranger" debuts on radio, Gandhi is assassinated, The Beatles hit the roof for one last gig, and the first computer virus is written, all on this day.
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1847: Yerba Buena, Calif., is renamed San Francisco. Here the city is seen in 1851, the year after California became a state.