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Los Angeles, April 1992
Florence and Normandie · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1992-04-29
Six days of unrest followed the acquittal of officers filmed beating Rodney King; 63 people died and 1,100 buildings were damaged.
The record
| Date | 1992-04-29 |
|---|---|
| Place | Florence and Normandie, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Coordinates | 33.97, -118.3 (landmark-level precision) |
| Scope | World-historic |
| Sources | Wikipedia |
| Added | 2026-08-14 · source: editors |
Coordinates are given at landmark level. A landmark-level coordinate points at the structure; a city-level one points at the settlement, not at a parcel.
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Footage
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Time layers within the surrounding city
One place, several moments in time. This location has 13 recorded time layers between 1925 and 2011 — slide through them:
- 1925 — Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall
- 1926 — Orpheum Theatre
- 1932 — Los Angeles 2028
- 1951 — California Science Center
- 1954 — The Watts Towers are finished
- 1961 — The Theme Building opens at LAX
- 1965 — Watts, August 1965
- 1967 — The first Super Bowl
- 1967 — Mark Taper Forum
- 1984 — weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- 1992 — Los Angeles, April 1992 this page
- 1993 — Museum of Tolerance
- 2011 — death of Reginald Doucet
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Nearby in United States
- The first Super Bowl (1967)Los Angeles, California
- California Science Center (1951)
- Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall (1925)
- Watts, August 1965 (1965)Los Angeles, California
- The Watts Towers are finished (1954)Los Angeles, California
- death of Dontaze Storey Jr. (2008)Griffith Observatory