Today In History
Today is Monday, Oct. 17, the 290th day of 2022. There are 75 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY
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 nine, 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 British-born sailors from American ships and ports regardless of whether they held U.S. citizenship.
› 1910: Social reformer and poet Julia Ward Howe, author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” died in Portsmouth, Rhode Island at age 91.
› 1966: Twelve New York City firefighters were killed while battling a blaze in lower Manhattan. The TV game show “The Hollywood Squares” premiered on NBC.
› 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.
› 1978: President Carter signed a bill restoring U.S. citizenship to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
› 1979: Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
› 1989: An earthquake measuring 6.9 in magnitude struck northern California, killing 63 people and causing $6 billion worth of damage.
› 2012: Federal authorities in New York said a Bangladeshi student had been arrested in an FBI sting after he tried to detonate a phony 1,000pound truck bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan. (Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was sentenced to 30 years in prison.)
› 2017: 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.
› 2018: Residents of the Florida Panhandle community of Mexico Beach who had fled Hurricane Michael a week earlier returned home to find homes, businesses and campers ripped to shreds; the storm had killed at least 59 people and caused more than $25 billion in damage in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas
and Virginia.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Singer Jim Seals (Seals & Crofts) is 80. Singer Gary Puckett is 80. Actor Michael McKean is 75. Actor George Wendt is
74. Actor-singer Bill Hudson is 73. Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker is
67. Astronaut Mae Jemison is 66. Country singer Alan Jackson is 64. Movie critic Richard Roeper is
63. Movie director Rob Marshall is 62. Actor Grant Shaud is 62. Animator Mike Judge is 60. Rock singer-musician Fred LeBlanc (Cowboy Mouth) is 59. Singer Rene’ Dif is 55. Reggae singer Ziggy Marley is 54. Actor Wood Harris is 53. Singer Wyclef Jean is 53. World Golf Hall of Famer Ernie Els is 53. Singer Chris Kirkpatrick (’N Sync) is 51. Rapper Eminem is
50. Actor Matthew Macfadyen is 48. Actor Felicity Jones is 39. Actor Chris Lowell is 38.