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KCBS Centennial Moment: 1968
A peaceful song, but hardly a peaceful year. President Johnson announces he will not run for re-election. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Senator Robert Kennedy are assassinated. And KCBS launches its all-news format.
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KCBS Centennial Moment: 1933
While America suffers in the great depression, the Bay Area begins construction on the Golden Gate Bridge; prohibition is repealed after its famous failure; and Gold Diggers of 1933 sings "We're in the money!"
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KCBS Centennial Moment: 1985
Terrorists seized a jet and a cruise ship. The 49ers win the Superbowl at Stanford Stadium, Humphrey the Whale swam into the Bay Area for the first time, and USA For Africa was singing "We are the World."
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KCBS Centennial Moment: 1929
San Francisco opens the $ 1 million "Great Highway", Babe Ruth hits his 500th home run, and everyone's in the stock market--until the crash. And the era of silent films come to an end at the first Academy Awards ceremony.
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KCBS Centennial Moment: 1961
The jazz classic "Take Five" by Bay Area native Dave Brubrek was topping the charts. John F. Kennedy was the country's new president, and just a short time after his inauguration, he was explaining his decision to attack the Bay of Pigs in Cuba.
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KCBS Centennial Moment: 1951
Bill Ward and the Dominos become popular in both white and black crowds, and the USF football team struggles with racism at the end of an undefeated season.
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KCBS Centennial Moment: 1991
The year that saw the United States military drive Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. The Oakland firestorm killed 25 people and destroyed nearly 3,500 East Bay homes. And Nirvana's "grunge" music reaches the national scene.
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KCBS Centennial Moment: 1927
The $8million Carquinez Bridge project opens. Charles Lindbergh achieves the first solo-airplane flight across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis. And Babe Ruth hits his 60th Home Run.
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KCBS Centennial Moment: 1975
America may be dancing to a disco beat, but the scars of the Vietnam War still weigh on the newly minted President Gerald Ford as he weighs whether or not to pardon Richard Nixon.
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KCBS Centennial Moment: 1909
Robert Perry reaches the North Pole, construction begins on the Panama Canal, and Charles Herrold begins America's first Broadcast Radio Station in San Jose. 100 Years later, his work lives on as KCBS.
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KCBS Centennial Moment: 1989
The Berlin Wall falls, the Exxon Valdez runs ashore, and democratic protesters are crushed in Tiananmen Square.
The Bay Area is hit by the devastating Loma Prieta quake during the beginning of Game 3 of the World Series on Oct. 17. A week later, the gam
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KCBS Centennial Moment: 1935
Bay Area native, Shirley Temple, is a huge box-office draw, and Bruno Richard Haltmon is convicted of murdering aviation legend Charles Lindbergh's child.
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KCBS Centennial Moment: 1958
The beatniks are in San Francisco. Meanwhile, 58 cent-per-gallon gas fuels the country's fasination with muscle cars like the Cadillac.
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KCBS Centennial Moment: 1970
Growing opposition to the war leads to protests throughout the country, culminating with the infamous attacks at Kent State. Carlos Santana's band records its first album here, in the Bay Area. And the brother of imprisoned Black Panther, George Jackso
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KCBS Centennial Moment Podcast: KCBS celebrates 100 years of news, information and innovation.
