Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/28
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Years
1987
- is elected mayor of San Francisco
- Punk rock band 924 Gilman in Berkeley
- Security software company McAfee is founded in Santa Clara
- Biotech pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences is founded in Foster City
- The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light railsystem (logo pictured) begins operation
- The Sonoma Coast AVA is established
- Nancy Pelosi is elected to California's 5th congressional district
- Cleve Jones and Mike Smith begin work in San Francisco on a quilt project to memorialize people who had died from AIDS