Poll: Most Significant Disaster in California History

Which of the following do you consider to be the most significant disaster in California history?

• 1941 Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor ("What they failed to do militarily they succeeded in doing in other ways").
• 1964 Northern California Floods ("Kinda gets forgotten but this was HUGE").
• 1968 Assassination of RFK in Los Angeles ("Our first sign of trouble with Muslims").
• 1970 Kim Patrick Noyes is Born ("'Unleashed' is perhaps more apropos") at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena.
• 1992 Los Angeles Riots ("Can't We All Just Get Along?")
• 1994 OJ Saga Begins ("If It Don't Fit...Acquit!")
• 1697 Spanish Colonization of California ("There goes the neighborhood!").
• 1846 American Seizure of California ("Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's property").
• 1849 Discovery of Gold in California ("When 'Seeing the Elephant'" no longer meant you were drunk").
• 1869 Transcontinental Railroad Completed ("The Industrial Revolution comes to California").
• 1928 St. Francis Dam Collapses ( "If you count all the Mexicans living in the river when it happened the death toll is a hell of a lot higher").
• 1906 San Francisco M8.0 Earthquake ("'The City' narcissistically renamed the Great Northern California Earthquake after their own city but they called it a fire, not an earthquake").
• 1911 First Hollywood Movie Studio Opens ("There are just too many things I could put here").
• 1931 Construction Begins of First Freeway (Pasadena Freeway) in California ("If we only knew then what we know now!").
• 1821 Mexican Occupation of California ("The beginning of a proud history of incompetence and corruption in California").