Bay Area Sports
- San Francisco Giants win their 3rd World Series in five years and their 8th in franchise history after beating the Kansas City Royals in seven games.
- Levi’s Stadium officially opens and hosts its first event, a soccer match between the San Jose Earthquakes and the Seattle Sounders FC.
- Oakland Raiders punter Ray Guy is inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame, becoming the only punter to be selected.
- The Golden State Warriors purchase a 12-acre site in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco with the plan of having a new area ready for the 2018-2019 season.
Bay Area in the News
- Google unveils the driverless car that has neither a steering wheel nor pedals. Google also releases the plan to test these cars in 2015 on Bay Area streets and make them available to the public by 2020.
- Google funds free Wi-Fi in 32 public places throughout San Francisco.
- Voters in Berkeley pass Measure D, which imposes a one-cent per ounce soda tax in the city. This is the first of its kind soda tax in the United States.
- Google’s Planetary Ventures agrees to lease Hangar One and Moffett Airfield in Mountain View for $1.16 billion with the hopes of restoring the facilities.
- Autodesk launches the Autodesk Foundation, the first foundation to focus exclusively on the people and organizations using design for positive social and environmental impact.
