The
Moscone–Milk assassinations were the killings of San Francisco Mayor
George Moscone and San Francisco Supervisor
Harvey Milk, who were
shot and killed in
San Francisco City Hall by former Supervisor
Dan White on November 27, 1978. White was angry that Moscone had refused to reappoint him to his seat on the Board of Supervisors, from which White had just resigned, and that Milk had lobbied heavily against his reappointment. These events helped bring national notice to then-Board President
Dianne Feinstein, who became the first female mayor of San Francisco and eventually
U.S. Senator for California.