California History Timeline, September 30 to October 7

September 30 Dean in 1955 James Dean, film actor, died in Cholame at age 24 when he crashed his Porsche on the way to a race. He is best known for “Rebel Without a Cause” (1955), that identified a generation. Labor in 1962 César Chávez, Mexican-American labor leader and central figure in civil rights in California, founded […]