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||1882: Johnny Torrio born ... mob boss. He helped to build a criminal organization, the Chicago Outfit, in the 1920s; it was later inherited by his protégé, Al Capone. He also put forth the idea of the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and later became an unofficial adviser to the Genovese crime family. Pic. | ||1882: Johnny Torrio born ... mob boss. He helped to build a criminal organization, the Chicago Outfit, in the 1920s; it was later inherited by his protégé, Al Capone. He also put forth the idea of the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and later became an unofficial adviser to the Genovese crime family. Pic. | ||
||1883: Enoch L. Johnson born ... | ||1883: Enoch L. Johnson born ... Atlantic City, New Jersey political boss, Sheriff of Atlantic County, New Jersey, businessman, and racketeer. He was the undisputed "boss" of the political machine that controlled Atlantic City and the Atlantic County government from the 1910s until his conviction and imprisonment in 1941. His rule encompassed the Roaring Twenties when Atlantic City was at the height of its popularity as a refuge from Prohibition. In addition to bootlegging, his organization was also involved in gambling and prostitution. Pic. | ||
||1889: Allan Haines Loughead born ... engineer and businessman, founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company. Pic search:https://www.google.com/search?q=Allan+Haines+Loughead | ||1889: Allan Haines Loughead born ... engineer and businessman, founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company. Pic search:https://www.google.com/search?q=Allan+Haines+Loughead | ||
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1573: Astronomer Simon Marius born. He will discover the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.
1574: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei says that he is "not jealous of Simon Marius' future accomplishments."
1775: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère born. He will be one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he will referr to as "electrodynamics".
1840: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and crime-fighter David Brewster publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against physics.
1841: Adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen dies. He sailed to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.
1898: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray uses his "telephote" technology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1901: Electrical engineer Zénobe Gramme dies. He invented the first usefully powerful electric motor.
1959: Project SCORE satellite makes contact with orbital artificial intelligence AESOP.
2016: New members of Bernoulli family unexpectedly discovered during routine upgrade to dynastic cellular automata.
2017: Boxes voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.