Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)
Physicist Albert Einstein, whose theory of relativity uprooted
centuries of settled science and laid the foundation for a new
era of achievement for mankind, was born to a prominent
Jewish family in Ulm, Germany, on this day in 1879.
Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his
services to theoretical physics, and especially for his
discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".
On this day in 1950, the Federal Bureau of Investigation
instituted the “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list in an
effort to publicize particularly dangerous fugitives. The
creation of the program arose out of a wire service news
story in 1949 about the “toughest guys” the FBI wanted
to capture. The story drew so much public attention that
the “Ten Most Wanted” list was given the okay by J. Edgar
Hoover the following year.
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972)
