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The Los Angeles FC and LA Galaxy have such a fierce rivalry that it’s been dubbed “El Tràfico” by the supporters of both clubs.
And... the day is already top 2!
You are fast!!!
The 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympic Games were held in Los Angeles, and the city won the bid to host the 2028 Summer Olympic Games.
In 1986, the largest first-time marathon took place in the city–the City of Los Angeles Marathon–with nearly 11,000 participants.
WE MADE IT TO PAGE 450 !!!
Does that mean we are not that far from setting a new daily record again ?
In 1994, the FIFA World Cup final match took place at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Los Angeles.
While thousands of famous people gravitate to Los Angeles, the actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Beau Bridges, and Shea LaBeouf were actually born in Los Angeles.
Actresses Marilyn Monroe, Christina Ricci, Kristen Stewart, Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, Tyra Banks, Christina Applegate, and Jodie Foster were also born in Los Angeles.
The 40th President of the US, Ronald Reagan, was born in Los Angeles.
Singers Christina Aguilera, Sarah Hudson, Natalie Cole, Billie Eilish, and Adam Levine were born in Los Angeles.
We need less than 2 pages to have the record
Some of the many, many famous bands from Los Angeles include the Monkees, The Eagles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns N’ Roses, Rage Against the Machine, Motley Crue, Bad Religion, Body Count, N.W.A., L7, Jane’s Addiction, Weezer, NOFX, Black Flag, Tool, and Jurassic 5.
Los Angeles has produced 46 Nobel Prize Winners: Eric Betzig and Martin Karplus (Chemistry), Randy Schekman and Leland H. Hartwell (Physiology or Medicine), Lloyd Shapely and Elinor Ostrom (Economics), Arthur B. McDonald and H. David Politzer (Physics), and Ralph Bunche (Peace).
So about 30 minutes
The Tongva people were the original inhabitants of the Los Angeles area, going back 5000 years. There were around 5000 of them in the Los Angeles basin when Europeans arrived.
Oh no the guys left. :0
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Spanish explorers passed the area in the late 1500s, then built a mission there in 1771 and a Pueblo in 1781, called El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles.
On 14th July 1789, the date of the storming of the Bastille, King Louis XVI of France wrote in his diary "rien" (nothing).
Los Angeles attained city status in 1835 and became officially incorporated in 1850.
On average, New Yorkers save $1,160 a month and $13,926 annually by relying on public transportation.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas, a famous 90s child actor, walked away from fame at the height of his career to study philosophy at Harvard.
I think I had more comments in the last 24 hours than I made in the BF thread in a month.
Metrophobia is the fear of poetry.
The first discovery of Gold at Placerita Canyon in 1842 prompted the city’s first population boom.
When Winston Churchill paid a visit to the U.S. in 1931, during the height of Alcohol Prohibition, he got around it after being hit by an oncoming car. The doctor prescribed him 6 shots of alcohol at mealtimes.
The city’s first newspaper, the Los Angeles Star, began publication in 1851.
Southern California’s first railroad, the Los Angeles & San Pedro line, began operating in 1869.