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.
Mr. ZIP Codes: Robert Aurand Moon, Inventor of the Zoning Improvement Plan (ZIP) Codes. The Zoning Improvement Plan (ZIP) Codes were invented by Robert Aurand Moon in the 1950âs although they didnât come into use by the Post Office until 1963. As the Father of ZIP Codes, Moon was also known as âMr. ZIP Code.â. Moon, born on April 15, 1917 in Williamsport, PA, was the United States director of mail delivery services for seven years. He started working for the post office in the 1940s as a postal inspector in Philadelphia and Chicago.