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Nations In San Francisco On April: It was tragic that he did not live to see the final victory to which he had contributed so much; to open the first meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco on April 25, less than two weeks after his death ; and to make the final decision on the use of the atomic bomb in Japan, which his successor, Harry S. Truman, ordered dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.Hearst was born in San Francisco on April 29, 1863, the only child of George Hearst and Phoebe Apperson Hearst. His father was a miner who struck it rich and became a U.S. senator. Spoiled, able, enormously ambitious, William was expelled from Harvard for undue horseplay. Unruffled, he took over his father's moribund San Francisco Examiner in 1887, refashioned it with a blend of reform and sensationalism that he had learned largely from Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and made it a huge success.
Prior to the American conquest, the pueblo of Yerba Buena was governed by an alcalde (mayor) and an ayimtamiento (town council), the first alcalde being Francisco de Haro, who was elected in 1834. Mexican alcaldes continued to serve until Aug. 6, 1846, when Washington Alien Bartlett, a lieutenant in the United States Navy, was appointed to the post. On April 15,1850, San Francisco was granted its first charter by the newly organized California legislature. In 1856 the legislature authorized the consolidation of the city and county governments and the creation of a board of supervisors. |
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