Today in History: First Prisoners Reach Alcatraz
Today marks the 224th day of 2024, with 142 days remaining in the year. On this day in 1934, the first federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Over the next three decades, more than 1,500 prisoners, including notorious gangsters Al Capone and James “Whitey” Bulger, called the island home before it closed in 1963.
In other notable events on this day:
– In 1919, Germany’s Weimar Constitution was signed.
– Babe Ruth hit his 500th career home run in 1929.
– General Omar N. Bradley was nominated as the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President Harry S. Truman in 1949.
– King Hussein bin Talal was proclaimed the King of Jordan in 1952.
– Jackson Pollock, an abstract painter, passed away in a car accident in 1956.
– Rioting erupted in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1965.
– The last U.S. ground combat troops left South Vietnam in 1972.
Birthdays today include Marilyn Vos Savant, John Conlee, Steve Wozniak, Hulk Hogan, Joe Jackson, David Henry Hwang, David Brooks, Viola Davis, Embeth Davidtz, Joe Rogan, Anna Gunn, Sophie Okonedo, and more.
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