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1. In 1896, San Francisco's Sutro Baths opened.
2. In 1925, the first coast-to-coast radio broadcast was made from San Francisco.
3. In 1954, the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine, was launched from Groton, Connecticut. It was powered by a nuclear reactor designed by Westinghouse Electric Corporation's Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory in Los Angeles.
4. In 1971, Mariner 9, NASA's first orbiting spacecraft to visit Mars, went into orbit around the Red Planet.
5. In 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay Area at 5:04 p.m. It was the most devastating earthquake to hit California since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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