Historical place archive

San Diego in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at San Diego in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

9 records9 event labels2 people1956–1965

Historical events in San Diego

1956

26 October 1956
Marine Recruit Depot Arrival
Lee Harvey Oswald · Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Oswald reported to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego on October 26, 1956, for basic training.

30 October 1956
Marine Recruit Aptitude Testing
Lee Harvey Oswald · Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Marine aptitude testing found Lee above average in reading and vocabulary but below average in arithmetic and pattern analysis.

21 December 1956
M1 Rifle Sharpshooter Qualification
Lee Harvey Oswald · Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Oswald scored 212 with the M1 rifle on December 21, 1956, qualifying as a Marine sharpshooter.

1957

22 August 1957
Departure for Japan
Lee Harvey Oswald · Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Oswald departed from San Diego on August 22, 1957, en route to Yokosuka, Japan, for overseas duty.

22 August 1957
USS Bexar Voyage to Japan
Lee Harvey Oswald · Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Lee departed San Diego aboard the USS Bexar on August 22, 1957, traveling with Marine replacements bound for Japan.

1964

1964
Density Functional Theory
Walter Kohn · Chemistry

Provides the theoretical foundation for modern density-functional calculations.

1964
Density Functional Theory for Electrons
Walter Kohn · Physics

With Pierre Hohenberg, establishes that the ground-state properties of interacting electrons are determined by the electron density.

1964
Hohenberg-Kohn Theorems
Walter Kohn · Chemistry

Co-formulates the theorems establishing electron density as a complete ground-state description.

1965

1965
Kohn-Sham Electron Equations
Walter Kohn · Physics

With Lu Jeu Sham, formulates practical one-electron equations that make density functional calculations usable for atoms, molecules and solids.

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