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El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe is founded on November 29 as the first town of Nueva California, which is later to become Alta California.
The California State Normal School (later San Jose State University) is created by an Act of the California Legislature on May 2, 1862.
Herbert Clark Hoover, an Iowa-born blacksmith’s son orphaned at eight years old and sent to live with a Quaker uncle in Oregon who became wealthy, graduates from Stanford University in 1895 with a mining engineering degree.
He begins working in California as an ordinary laborer, but quickly obtains a position in Australia directing a new gold-mining venture. for a London-based firm.