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)
Joseph Anthony Pepitone
(October 9, 1940 – March 13, 2023)
Pepitone was a professional baseball first baseman and
outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB)
for the New York Yankees, Houston Astros, Chicago
Cubs, and Atlanta Braves from 1962 to 1973 and for the
Yakult Atoms of Nippon Professional Baseball in 1973.
Pepitone was a three-time MLB All-Star and won three
Gold Glove Awards.
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm
On March 13, 1942, the Quartermaster Corps (QMC) of the United
States Army began training dogs for the newly established War
Dog Program, or “K-9 Corps.”
Well over a million dogs served on both sides during World War
I, carrying messages along the complex network of trenches and
providing some measure of psychological comfort to the soldiers.
The most famous dog to emerge from the war was Rin Tin Tin,
an abandoned puppy of German war dogs found in France in
1918 and taken to the United States, where he made his film
debut in the 1922 silent film The Man from Hell’s River. As the
first bona movie star, Rin Tin Tin made the little-known German
fide animal Shepherd breed famous across the country.
Rin Tin Tin
Three dogs are trained for guard duty at Camp Atterbury, Ind.
U.S. Army photo
