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The Los Angeles fetus disposal scandal was the 1982 discovery of over 16,000 aborted fetuses being improperly stored at Malvin Weisberg's Woodland Hills, California, home and the ensuing legal battle regarding their disposal. It was called a "national tragedy" by then-president Ronald Reagan and inspired a song by pop singer Pat Boone, with the ...
La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles ( English: "The Church of Our Lady Queen of the Angels") [ 2] is a historic Catholic church in Los Angeles, California, located on the historic Plaza de Los Ángeles near Downtown Los Angeles. Part of the larger El Pueblo de los Ángeles Historical Monument, the church's origins date to ...
t. e. The Azusa Street Revival was a historic series of revival meetings that took place in Los Angeles, California. [ 1] It was led by William J. Seymour, an African-American preacher. The revival began on April 9, 1906, and continued until roughly 1915. Seymour was invited to Los Angeles for a one-month engagement at a local church, but found ...
Abortion in California is legal up to the point of fetal viability. An abortion ban was in place by 1900, and by 1950, it was a criminal offense for a woman to have an abortion. In 1962, the American Law Institute published their model penal code, as it applied to abortions, with three circumstances where they believed a physician could ...
Los Angeles County is choosing to continue with the "care first, jails last" approach when addressing the more than 75,000 individuals experiencing homelessness in the county, despite recent ...
The population of Los Angeles reached more than 100,000 with the 1900 census, [118] more than a million in 1930, more than two million in 1960, and more than 3 million in 1990. Los Angeles surpassed Chicago to become the nation's second largest city between 1980 and 1982, with a population estimated to be 3.022 million in 1982. [119]
The couple and their 1-year-old son had come to Los Angeles a few months earlier on vacation, but running low on funds and wanting to stay longer, Juan Luis Gomez Ramirez found a job packing ...
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels ( Spanish: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles ), informally known as the COLA or the Los Angeles Cathedral ( Spanish: Catedral de Los Ángeles ), is the metropolitan cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles, California, United States. It opened in 2002 and serves as the mother church ...