Volume 13 , Issue 42

This Day In History (October 17)

On this day in history, October 17, 1931, mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison. Capone was found guilty of 23 counts contained in two indictments brought against by the Federal Government for income tax evasion from 1924 to 1929. He was released in 1939. Go to Article

On Oct. 17, 1918, Rita Hayworth, the legendary Hollywood beauty, was born. During World War II, her pinup pictures decorated barracks walls and ships' bulkheads wherever servicemen went, and over two decades her often tempestuous romantic life thrust her into the headlines. Haworth's father, Eduardo Cansino, was a Spanish-born dancer and her mother, the former Volga Haworth, had been a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl. They named their daughter Margarita Carmen Cansino. Following her death on May 14, 1987, her obituary appeared in The Times. Go to obituary

On This Date . . .

• 1610 - French King Louis XIII, age 9, was crowned at Reims, five months after the assassination of his father, Henry IV.
• 1777 - British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American troops in Saratoga, N.Y., in a turning point of the Revolutionary War.
• 1915 - Playwright Arthur Miller was born in New York City.
• 1919 - The Radio Corporation of America was created.
• 1931 - Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
• 1933 - Physicist Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
• 1945 - Col. Juan Peron staged a coup, becoming absolute ruler of Argentina.
• 1957 - French author Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
• 1973 - Arab oil-producing nations announced they would cut back oil exports to Western nations and Japan; the result was a total embargo that lasted until March 1974.
• 1979 - Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the destitute in Calcutta.
• 2005 - "The Colbert Report" premiered on comedy Central.

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