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Monday, February 08, 2010

Capistrano Beach
Enjoy volleyball, basketball and other beach activities. During the summer months, a concessionaire offers fishing gear rental and sales, food and beverages and beach supplies.


Today's DailyOM


Doheny State Beach is right next to Capistrano Beach and features 62 acres of sandy beach. The campground features 120 developed family campsites and the picnic area has 170 picnic tables and 99 barbecue grills. At the entrance to Doheny there is a visitor center with five aquariums, an indoor tide pool, exhibits, displays, gift shop, and photo history of Doheny surfing days. For More information:




 

Past Events

1725 Catherine the Great became the Empress of Russia
1886 A protest march in Trafalgar Square, by unemployed, ended in riots and looting
1924 The gas chamber was used for the first time in an American state prison
1955 Marshall Bulganin became the Soviet Prime Minister & 1st Secretary of the Communist Party
1969 The first test flight of the Boeing 747, Jumbo jet, took place
1974 The US spacestation, Skylab, crashed back to Earth, breaking up in the atmosphere
1984 British peacekeeping troops left the Lebanon
1994 Los Angeles, after an earthqauke & fires, was struk by flooding & mud slides

Birthdays
1819 John Ruskin, English writer and artist
1820 William Sherman, US general whom the 'Sherman Tank' was named after
1828 Jules Verne, French author of '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea'
1920 Lana Turner, American film actress
1925 Jack Lemmon, Veteran American film actor
1931 James Dean, American film actor ('Rebel Without A Cause')
1932 John Williams, US film score writer; 'Jaws' & 'Indiana Jones'

 

 
       

 

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