Best Answer: Their really isn't one correct answer to this question, I'll try to explain. Ill start with the home run that Mickey Mantle hit at Griffith Stadium in Washington on April 17, 1953. The entire baseball world was led to believe the ball had traveled 565 feet from home plate to the point where it landed.
What year did zip codes start?   In the US 2 digit postal codes started in 1943 because many of the regulay postal clerks were away fighting WWII and the government the codes would help the inexperienceâ¦d new clerks in sorting the mail. 5 digit Zip codes went into effect on July 1, 1963.
Follow @TIME. 1963 was a momentous year in America: President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his âI Have a Dreamâ speech at the March on Washington and, somewhat less heralded by all but the most fervent postal historians, the ZIP code was introduced.