Happy Birthday Robin

The Year Robin Was Born:

1. John F. Kennedy assassinated on Friday, November 22nd , 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas
2. Due to the high cost of daily maintenance and repairs, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes
3. The United States Postal Service launches the ZIP Code System during July of 1963.
4. Beatles Release I Want To Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There and Meet the Beatles
5. Studebaker the US Car Maker goes out of business and Ends production
6. The United States Senate approved ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
7. The Sabin oral Polio Vaccine which is taken with a lump of sugar is given nationwide in US and UK
8. Members of Ku Klux Klan dynamite Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
9. The United States and the Soviet Union agree to establish a "hot line"

Did You Know? - The name ZIP stood for "Zoning Improvement Plan and was rolled out in 1963"

Did You Know?

1. Alcatraz, located in the San Francisco Bay, is first explored by Juan Manuel DE Ayala who named it after the pelicans that inhabited the island in 1775.
2. The United States government bought the island in 1849.
3. It was turned into a fort which was used during the Civil War.
4. After that it was turned into a military prison, in 1909 the U.S. Army demolished the fort and began building a prison which was finished in 1912.
5. In 1933 control of the the island was transferred to the United States Department of Justice.
6. The Justice Department turned it into a maximum security prison which began operating on July 1, 1934.
7. The prison at Alcatraz, known as "The Rock," was intended to house the most unruly and dangerous prisoners from other facilities. 8.
8. Some famous inmates included gangster Al Capone, George "Machine-Gun" Kelly, Robert Shroud (known as the Bird man of Alcatraz), and James "Whitey" Bugler.
9. Due to the high cost of daily maintenance and repairs, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes on March 21st, 1963.
10. In November of 1969, a group of Native American protesters claimed the island as native land and demanded that it be turned into a Native American cultural center. The occupation ended in June of 1971 after Federal Marshals removed remaining occupiers from the island.
11. In 1972, the United States Congress established the Golden Gate National Recreation Area which included Alcatraz and the following year it was opened to the public.
12. In 1986 it was declared a National Historic Landmark.