California Statehood Day

1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo is the first European to visit the coast of California. 1579 - Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of California and claims it for Great Britain.

Hernán Cortés is often credited with being the first to apply the name California to the Baja Peninsula, but researchers believe it was more likely one of the men he assigned to do some advance exploration of the South Sea.

L.A. wasn't always the home of the film industry. Los Angeles has some pretty weird laws on the books. In Los Angeles there is a law against licking frogs. The Law came in power after some teenagers in Los Angeles found out that a certain type of toad’ skin contains hallucinogens.