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||1860: "Soapy" Smith born ... con artist and gangster in the Old West. His most famous scam, the prize package soap sell racket, earned him the sobriquet of "Soapy", which remained with him to his death. Although he traveled and operated his confidence swindles all across the western United States, he is most famous for having a major hand in the organized criminal operations of Denver and Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska, from 1879 to 1898. Pic. | ||1860: "Soapy" Smith born ... con artist and gangster in the Old West. His most famous scam, the prize package soap sell racket, earned him the sobriquet of "Soapy", which remained with him to his death. Although he traveled and operated his confidence swindles all across the western United States, he is most famous for having a major hand in the organized criminal operations of Denver and Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska, from 1879 to 1898. Pic. | ||
||1863: Theodore Judah dies ... engineer ... rail Sierra Nevada | ||1863: Theodore Judah dies ... engineer ... rail Sierra Nevada. Pic. | ||
||1885: Harlow Shapley born ... astronomer and academic. | ||1885: Harlow Shapley born ... astronomer and academic. | ||
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||1932: Melvin Schwartz born ... physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino. Pic. | ||1932: Melvin Schwartz born ... physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino. Pic. | ||
||1936: Martin Lowry dies ... chemist and academic. He developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted. Pic. | |||
||1936: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established. | ||1936: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established. | ||
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1815: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
1893: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Chrystal publishes evidence that seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both crimes against physics and crimes against chemistry.
1903: George P. Metesky born. He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.
2017: Signed first edition of Two Creatures 3 stolen from the Tate in London. The press will initially blame The Eel, but APTO detectives will prove that the criminal mathematical function Forbidden ratio stole the picture and framed The Eel.