When Royce Mulenex was born in January 1931, in Fame, McIntosh, Oklahoma, United States, his father, John Henry Mulenex, was 22 and his mother, Susan Anna Morse, was 22. He had at least 1 son with Shirley Ann Cooper. He lived in Temescal Judicial Township, Riverside, California, United States in 1940. He died on 22 May 2008, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Wayne Township, Bollinger, Missouri, United States.
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The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
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.
The California grizzly bear became designated as the state animal in 1953.
Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the surname, in origin a derivative of the vernacular form of the medieval female name Rohesia ( see Rose ). As a modern first name it may in part be taken as a short form of Royston .
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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