When Rawson Bates Lovell was born on 21 March 1919, in Flagstaff, Coconino, Arizona, United States, his father, David Bates Lovell, was 48 and his mother, Amy Jane Jones, was 30. He lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 17 August 1995, in La Habra, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
English: nickname from Anglo-Norman French lovel ‘wolf cub’, a diminutive of lou, love ‘wolf’. Compare Love and Low .
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