Today in History

October 17

1748 - French troops lift siege of English at Pondicherry, India.

1913 - Serbs invade Albania.

1918 - Republic of Yugoslavia is formally established.

1933 - Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

1953 - France agrees to withdraw all its occupation forces from Austria. 1994 - Jordan and Israel sign a historic peace treaty in Amman.

2000 - Dubai Marina gets first filling of water.

2001 - Israel’s tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi is shot dead in the first-ever assassination of a serving cabinet minister.

2003 - Carlos Mesa becomes President of Bolivia.