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Oakland was incorporated as the Town of Oakland by the state legislature in 1852, and then re-incorporated as the City of Oakland on the 25th of March 1854. Horace Carpentier was elected its first mayor.
The Port of Oakland is the busiest port in Northern California and the fifth- or sixth-busiest in the United States by cargo volume. It handles 99% of all containerized goods moving through Northern California, representing $41 billion in international trade.
Between 2019 and 2023, Oakland lost the Golden State Warriors, the Raiders, and the Athletics after the city and county refused requests for hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits to the privately owned franchises. Oakland became the first American city ever to lose three major league teams within a five-year span.
Students Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party at Merritt College in Oakland. The party advocated Black nationalism and armed self-defense against police, and also ran community social programs including feeding children.
The firestorm of the 20th of October 1991 swept down from the Berkeley and Oakland hills above the Caldecott Tunnel, aided by dry, warm offshore Diablo winds. Twenty-five people were killed, 150 injured, and nearly 4,000 homes destroyed, with an estimated economic loss of $1.5 billion.
A 2019 analysis by WalletHub ranked Oakland the most ethno-racially diverse city in the United States. The 2020 census counted 440,646 residents with no single racial or ethnic group holding a majority; Hispanic and Latino residents made up 27% of the population, while Black or African American residents comprised 23.8%.