Bridge to the Future: Golden Gate Connects San Francisco
President Franklin D. Roosevelt triggers the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge from Washington, D.C., launching vehicle traffic across the San Francisco Bay. This engineering marvel immediately shrank travel time between the city and Marin County to minutes, catalyzing a decades-long population boom that transformed the region into a unified economic hub.
May 28, 1937
89 years ago
Key Figures & Places
What Else Happened on May 28
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