About This Item. KPIX Eyewitness news report from April 13th 1973 featuring views of firefighters and emergency service workers dealing with the aftermath of a mid-air plane crash over the Sunnyvale Municipal Golf Course. Also includes an interview with an eyewitness, who was on the golf course. Full details about this crash can be reviewed on ...
Description. Additional Information. KPIX Eyewitness news report from April 13th 1973 featuring views of firefighters and emergency service workers dealing with the aftermath of a mid-air plane crash over the Sunnyvale Municipal Golf Course. Also includes an interview with an eyewitness, who was on the golf course.
KPIX Eyewitness news report from April 13th 1973 featuring views of firefighters and emergency service workers dealing with the aftermath of a mid-air plane crash over the Sunnyvale Municipal Golf Course. Also includes an interview with an eyewitness who was on the golf course.
The crash kills 35 of the 39 people on board; the other four freeze to death in the –41 °C (–41.8 °F) temperature at the crash site before rescuers can arrive. [11] January 22
A long-standing legend of Sunnyvale is of a ghost that haunts the town's Toys 'R' Us store (closed in 2018). A purported psychic, Sylvia Browne, claimed to have made contact with the ghost on the 1980 TV show That's Incredible! and named him Johnny Johnson. This story was also explored in a 1991 episode of Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories. Browne stated that he had been a Swedish preacher who worked as a farm hand in the orchard where the toy store now stands and that he bled to death from an accidental, self-inflicted axe injury to his leg.
In November 2009, previously closed portions of the main streets in downtown Sunnyvale were reopened as part of the ongoing downtown redevelopment of the Sunnyvale Town Center mall, marking the first time in over three decades that those street blocks have been open to vehicle and pedestrian traffic. Part of the project involved building new apartment buildings, however during the Great Recession the property was repossessed by Wells Fargo in 2009; the developer countersued, leaving the project in legal limbo through 2015.
Sunnyvale was given its current name on March 24, 1901. It was named Sunnyvale as it is located in a sunny region adjacent to areas with significantly more fog.
As one of the major cities comprising California's high-tech area known as Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale is the birthplace of the video game industry, former location of Atari headquarters, and location a fictional computer game company in the 1983 film WarGames.
Peter Ueberroth, Major League Baseball Commissioner 1984–89. Bill Green, former United States and NCAA record holder in Track and Field, 5th in the hammer throw at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Chris Pelekoudas, Major League Baseball umpire, lived and died in Sunnyvale.
Rancho Posolmi was later known as Rancho Ynigo. Martin Murphy Jr. came to California with his father as part of the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party in 1844. In 1850, Martin Murphy Jr. bought a piece of Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas for $12,500. Murphy established a wheat farm and ranch named Bay View.
Until 1970, Sunnyvale had a Sister City relationship with Chill án, Chile. In 2013, the city entered into a three-year Friendly Exchange Relations Agreement with Iizuka, Japan; in July 2016 the city council voted to change this to a Sister City relationship.