On this day: December 28
POSTED: 10:36 PM PST Dec 26, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Dec 27, 2012
An audience goes to the cinema for the first time, streetcars come to San Francisco, The Beatles' "White Album" goes to No. 1, and the first American test-tube baby is born, all on this day.
The San Francisco Railway Museum
1912: The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, Calif., with the establishment of the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni). The first streetcar line, the A Geary, runs from Kearny and Market streets in the Financial District to Fulton Street and 10th Avenue in the Richmond District.
