MIKE GRACIA
On this day in 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death
inside City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor.
From left: Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.
Dan White
On this day in 1973, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Gerald R. Ford
as vice president after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew (below).
From left: Gerald Ford and President Richard Nixon.
French surgeons performed the world’s first face transplant on this
day in 2005. The patient, a 38-year-old woman, had been gravely disfigured by her dog, which had been trying to revive her after a
suicide attempt.
Isabelle Dinoire’s first public appearance since her partial face transplant.
