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Events on December 28 in history

San Francisco Municipal Railway
1912Dec, 28

The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

The San Francisco Municipal Railway (SF Muni or Muni) is the public transit system for the City and County of San Francisco. Despite the name, the network has 54 bus lines and 17 trolleybus lines, in addition to seven light rail lines (called Muni Metro) that operate above ground and in the city's lone subway tube, three historic cable car lines, and two historic streetcar lines.

Muni is an integral part of transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area, operating 365 days a year and connecting with other regional transportation services, such as Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Caltrain commuter trains, along with AC Transit, Golden Gate Transit and SamTrans buses, and ferries from Golden Gate Ferries and San Francisco Bay Ferry.

In 2018, Muni served 46.7 square miles (121 km2) with an operating budget of about $1.2 billion. In ridership terms, Muni is the seventh-largest transit system in the United States, with 210,848,310 rides in 2006 and the second largest in California behind the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. With a fleet average speed of 8.1 mph (13.0 km/h), it is the slowest major urban transit system in America and one of the most expensive to operate, costing $19.21 per mile per bus and $24.37 per mile per train. However, it has more boardings per mile and more vehicles in operation than similar transit agencies.

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  • 6Mar

    Airship

    Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
  • 15Apr

    Sinking of the RMS Titanic

    The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
  • 14Oct

    Theodore Roosevelt

    While campaigning in Milwaukee, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
  • 17Oct

    First Balkan War

    Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
  • 26Oct

    Thessaloniki

    First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje.