August 11, 1587 - Walter Raleigh's second expedition to the New World landed in North Carolina.
August 11, 1934 - A group of federal prisoners classified as "most dangerous"
arrives at Alcatraz Island, a 22-acre rocky outcrop situated 1.5 miles offshore in San Francisco Bay. The convicts--the first civilian prisoners to be housed in the new high-security penitentiary--joined a few dozen military prisoners left over from the island's days as a U.S. military prison.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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