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  "id": "history-10-25",
  "type": "this-day",
  "title": "This day in the South Bay & LA · Oct 25",
  "md": "10-25",
  "for_date": "2026-10-25",
  "scope": "El Segundo and places within about 25 miles: beach cities, Torrance, Palos Verdes, San Pedro and Long Beach, Inglewood, Westchester/LAX, Culver City, Santa Monica/Venice, downtown LA, Hollywood, Compton, Carson, Gardena.",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-25T09:40:00-07:00",
  "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
  "labels": {
    "fact": "From an official record, official data or the organization's own history.",
    "reported": "From one outlet, not independently confirmed.",
    "listing": "From an organizer listing; may not have happened as listed.",
    "archive": "From a historical archive or retrospective document."
  },
  "intervals_order": [
    "6mo",
    "1y",
    "5y",
    "10y",
    "25y",
    "record",
    "45y",
    "60y",
    "75y",
    "115y"
  ],
  "policy": {
    "candidatePolicy": "No candidates in the Nov 3, 2026 election appear.",
    "privacyPolicy": "No private individuals are named. Public figures appear only in their public roles.",
    "crimePolicy": "Crime only when historically significant, described neutrally.",
    "brands": "No brands in that product category.",
    "images": "No hotlinked images. Text is our own words; no copied article text."
  },
  "notice": "Not an official City of El Segundo page. Corrections use the site footer's correct/remove link.",
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "2026-04-25-inglewood-fs171-breakfast",
      "date": "2026-04-25",
      "interval": "6mo",
      "interval_label": "6 months ago",
      "city": "Inglewood",
      "text": "LA County Fire Station 171 on Regent Street held a community pancake breakfast with rescue-dog demos and engine tours.",
      "label": "fact",
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "LA County Fire Dept. recap (May 8, 2026)",
          "url": "https://fire.lacounty.gov/fs-171-pancake-breakfast-2026/",
          "fetched": true
        },
        {
          "name": "LA County locator: Station 171, 141 W. Regent St., Inglewood",
          "url": "https://locator.lacounty.gov/fire/Location/3056898/los-angeles-county-fire-department---station-171-battalion-20-headquarters",
          "note": "seen in search result, not opened",
          "fetched": false
        }
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-10-25T09:40:00-07:00",
      "precision": "day",
      "kind": "seed",
      "topic": "civic"
    },
    {
      "id": "2025-10-25-el-segundo-halloween-frolic",
      "date": "2025-10-25",
      "interval": "1y",
      "interval_label": "1 year ago",
      "city": "El Segundo",
      "text": "The city's Halloween Frolic took over the 300 and 400 blocks of Main Street from noon to 4, with bounce houses, games and costume and pumpkin contests.",
      "label": "fact",
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "City of El Segundo, City News, Oct 2025",
          "url": "https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAELSEGUNDO/bulletins/3f2e9e7",
          "fetched": true
        }
      ],
      "echo": "This year the Frolic moves to Halloween itself, Sat Oct 31.",
      "checked_at": "2026-10-25T09:40:00-07:00",
      "precision": "day",
      "kind": "seed",
      "topic": "civic"
    },
    {
      "id": "2025-10-25-dodgers-ws-game-2",
      "date": "2025-10-25",
      "interval": "1y",
      "interval_label": "1 year ago",
      "city": "Los Angeles (game in Toronto)",
      "text": "The Dodgers beat Toronto 5-1 in World Series Game 2 behind Yoshinobu Yamamoto, tying the Series 1-1; they won it in seven on Nov 1.",
      "label": "fact",
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "Baseball-Reference, 2025 World Series",
          "url": "https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/2025_WS.shtml",
          "fetched": true
        }
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-10-25T09:40:00-07:00",
      "precision": "day",
      "kind": "seed",
      "topic": "sports"
    },
    {
      "id": "2021-10-25-atmospheric-river-rain-records",
      "date": "2021-10-25",
      "interval": "5y",
      "interval_label": "5 years ago",
      "city": "Westchester/LAX · Long Beach",
      "text": "An October atmospheric river set daily rain records: 0.39 in. at LAX (old mark 0.19 in., 1951) and 0.13 in. at Long Beach Airport (old mark 0.08 in., 2010).",
      "label": "fact",
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "LAist, citing NWS Los Angeles (Oct 26, 2021)",
          "url": "https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/records-rainfall-los-angeles-southern-california",
          "fetched": true
        },
        {
          "name": "NOAA RCC ACIS daily data, LAX threaded record",
          "url": "https://data.rcc-acis.org/StnData",
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          "note": "POST sid=LAXthr 9, sdate 1944-10-25, edate 2025-10-25, elems maxt/mint/pcpn interval [1,0,0]"
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      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-10-25T09:40:00-07:00",
      "precision": "day",
      "kind": "seed",
      "topic": "weather"
    },
    {
      "id": "2017-10-25-lax-100-degrees",
      "date": "2017-10-25",
      "interval": "record",
      "interval_label": "Record for this date",
      "city": "Westchester/LAX · Downtown LA",
      "text": "LAX hit 100°F, the hottest Oct 25 in its record back to 1944. The day before, downtown reached 104°F and World Series Game 1 started at 103°F at Dodger Stadium.",
      "label": "fact",
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "NOAA RCC ACIS daily data, LAX threaded record",
          "url": "https://data.rcc-acis.org/StnData",
          "fetched": true,
          "note": "POST sid=LAXthr 9, sdate 1944-10-25, edate 2025-10-25, elems maxt/mint/pcpn interval [1,0,0]"
        },
        {
          "name": "The Weather Channel (Oct 26, 2017), citing NWS",
          "url": "https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2017-10-25-southern-california-record-heat-108-degrees",
          "fetched": true
        }
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-10-25T09:40:00-07:00",
      "precision": "day",
      "kind": "climate",
      "topic": "weather"
    },
    {
      "id": "2016-10-24-expo-line-six-minutes",
      "date": "2016-10-24",
      "interval": "10y",
      "interval_label": "This week, 10 years ago",
      "city": "Santa Monica · Downtown LA",
      "text": "Metro doubled Expo Line service to a train every 6 minutes, down from 12, to ease crowding on the newly extended line to Santa Monica.",
      "label": "reported",
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "LAist/KPCC AirTalk, Oct 25, 2016 (Metro CEO interview)",
          "url": "https://laist.com/shows/airtalk/airtalk-for-october-25-2016",
          "fetched": true
        }
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-10-25T09:40:00-07:00",
      "precision": "week",
      "kind": "seed",
      "topic": "transit"
    },
    {
      "id": "2001-10-25-ports-security-id-talks",
      "date": "2001-10-25",
      "interval": "25y",
      "interval_label": "25 years ago",
      "city": "San Pedro · Long Beach (ports)",
      "text": "Six weeks after 9/11, a waterfront security task force opened talks on ID cards and background checks for truckers and workers at the LA and Long Beach ports.",
      "label": "reported",
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "Heavy Duty Trucking (Oct 25, 2001), citing the Los Angeles Times",
          "url": "https://www.truckinginfo.com/news/la-port-looks-at-id-system",
          "fetched": true
        }
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-10-25T09:40:00-07:00",
      "precision": "day",
      "kind": "seed",
      "topic": "port"
    },
    {
      "id": "2001-10-chevrontexaco-merger",
      "date": "2001-10",
      "interval": "25y",
      "interval_label": "This month, 25 years ago",
      "city": "El Segundo",
      "text": "The El Segundo refinery's parent company merged with Texaco and Caltex and became ChevronTexaco; the name went back to Chevron in 2005.",
      "label": "fact",
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "Chevron El Segundo, history",
          "url": "https://elsegundo.chevron.com/who-we-are/history",
          "fetched": true
        }
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-10-25T09:40:00-07:00",
      "precision": "month",
      "kind": "seed",
      "topic": "business"
    },
    {
      "id": "1981-10-25-dodgers-ws-game-5",
      "date": "1981-10-25",
      "interval": "45y",
      "interval_label": "45 years ago",
      "city": "Los Angeles (Dodger Stadium)",
      "text": "Before 56,115 at Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers beat the Yankees 2-1 in World Series Game 5 to lead 3-2; they clinched in New York three days later.",
      "label": "fact",
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "Baseball-Reference box score",
          "url": "https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN198110250.shtml",
          "fetched": true
        }
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-10-25T09:40:00-07:00",
      "precision": "day",
      "kind": "seed",
      "topic": "sports"
    },
    {
      "id": "1966-10-25-lax-91-degrees",
      "date": "1966-10-25",
      "interval": "60y",
      "interval_label": "60 years ago",
      "city": "Westchester/LAX",
      "text": "LAX reached 91°F, still one of the four hottest Oct 25s on its record.",
      "label": "fact",
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "NOAA RCC ACIS daily data, LAX threaded record",
          "url": "https://data.rcc-acis.org/StnData",
          "fetched": true,
          "note": "POST sid=LAXthr 9, sdate 1944-10-25, edate 2025-10-25, elems maxt/mint/pcpn interval [1,0,0]"
        }
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-10-25T09:40:00-07:00",
      "precision": "day",
      "kind": "climate",
      "topic": "weather"
    },
    {
      "id": "1951-10-25-lax-rain-record",
      "date": "1951-10-25",
      "interval": "75y",
      "interval_label": "75 years ago",
      "city": "Westchester/LAX",
      "text": "0.19 in. of rain fell at the airport, a record for the date that stood for 70 years, until 2021.",
      "label": "fact",
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "NOAA RCC ACIS daily data, LAX threaded record",
          "url": "https://data.rcc-acis.org/StnData",
          "fetched": true,
          "note": "POST sid=LAXthr 9, sdate 1944-10-25, edate 2025-10-25, elems maxt/mint/pcpn interval [1,0,0]"
        },
        {
          "name": "LAist (Oct 26, 2021)",
          "url": "https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/records-rainfall-los-angeles-southern-california",
          "fetched": true
        }
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-10-25T09:40:00-07:00",
      "precision": "day",
      "kind": "climate",
      "topic": "weather"
    },
    {
      "id": "1911-autumn-el-segundo-refinery",
      "date": "1911-11",
      "interval": "115y",
      "interval_label": "This season, 115 years ago",
      "city": "El Segundo",
      "text": "Standard Oil was finishing its second California refinery on 840 acres bought that June. It opened in November 1911, and the town took its name: El Segundo, \"the second.\"",
      "label": "archive",
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "Chevron El Segundo, history",
          "url": "https://elsegundo.chevron.com/who-we-are/history",
          "fetched": true
        },
        {
          "name": "South Coast AQMD, Chevron El Segundo cultural resources appendix (2006), historic overview",
          "url": "https://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/ceqa/documents/permit-projects/2006/chevron/appa_appa.pdf",
          "fetched": true
        }
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-10-25T09:40:00-07:00",
      "precision": "season",
      "kind": "seed",
      "topic": "history"
    }
  ]
}