When Andy Nyal Campbell was born on 5 August 1920, in Fremont, Dodge, Nebraska, United States, his father, Ralph Archie Campbell, was 34 and his mother, Clara Kathryn Rosacker, was 23. He married Hazel Josephine Banks on 6 January 1947, in Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to California, United States in 1945. He died on 15 August 1997, in Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
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.
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
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