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1961
Aerial photograph of Chabot College
- The Moore Dry Dock Company in Oakland ceases operations
- Chabot College (pictured) is established in Hayward
- The Frontier Village amusement park in San Jose opens
- Melvin Calvin of the University of California, Berkeley, Andrew Benson and James Bassham are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of the Calvin cycle
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