• The Love Pageant Rally is held, on the day LSD becomes illegal, in Golden Gate Park, by the creators of the San Francisco Oracle
• The Society for Creative Anachronism (pictured) forms in Berkeley, with a parade down Telegraph Avenue
• George Paul Miller is re-elected to California's 8th congressional district
• The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (artifacts pictured) opens as a wing of the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park
• High-end clothier Wilkes Bashford opens in Union Square, San Francisco
• The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense is formed in Oakland by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
• Moby Grape is formed in San Francisco by Skip Spence and Matthew Katz
• The Oakland Coliseum (pictured) opens
• Peet's Coffee & Tea (pictured) is founded in Berkeley
• The Print Mint begins publishing and distributing posters and underground comics in Berkeley
• The San Francisco Bay Guardian weekly alternative newspaper is founded in San Francisco
• The American Conservatory Theater moves to San Francisco