HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY
Today’s highlight:
On Oct. 17, 1933, Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
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, New York, in a turning point of the Revolutionary War.
1807: Britain declared it would continue to reclaim Britishborn sailors from American ships and ports regardless of whether they held U.S. citizenship.
1931: Mobster Al Capone was convicted in Chicago of income tax evasion. Sentenced to 11 years in prison, Capone was released in 1939. 1939: Frank Capra’s comedy-drama “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” starring
James Stewart as an idealistic junior U.S. senator, had its premiere in the nation’s capital.
1941: The U.S. destroyer
Kearny was damaged by a German torpedo off the coast of Iceland; 11 people died. 1967: Puyi, the last emperor of China, died in Beijing at age 61.
1973: Arab oil-producing nations announced they would begin cutting 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.
1989: An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck northern California, killing 63 people and causing $6 billion worth of damage.
1992: Japanese exchange student Yoshi Hattori was fatally shot by Rodney Peairs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after Hattori and his American host mistakenly knocked on Peairs’ door while looking for a Halloween party. Peairs was acquitted of manslaughter, but was ordered in a civil trial to pay more than $650,000 to Hattori’s family.
2000: The New York Yankees followed the New York Mets into the World Series of baseball, beating the Seattle Mariners 9-7 and winning the American League championship series four games to two.
Ten years ago: Wall Street ended a tumultuous week that turned out to be its best in five years. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 127 points, closing at 8,852.22, but turned in the strong week because of two huge days of gains — a record 936-point jump the previous Monday and an increase of 401 points on Thursday.
Five years ago: The government reopened its doors hours after President Barack Obama signed a bipartisan congressional measure passed the night before to end a 16-day partial shutdown. The Boston Red Sox edged the Detroit Tigers 4-3 for a 3-2 lead in the AL championship series.
One year ago: Just hours before President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban was due to take effect, a federal judge in Hawaii blocked most of the ban, saying it suffered from the same flaws as the previous version. U.S.-backed Syrian forces gained control of the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, which was once the heart of the Islamic State group’s self-styled caliphate.