Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Day 290 - This day in legal and military history

October 17
 

NATIONAL Pasta Day
 

NATIONAL Wear Something Gaudy Day
 

NATIONAL Playing Card Collection Day
 

NATIONAL Mulligan Day
 

NATIONAL Spreadsheet Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1931 Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison
 

1933 Albert Einstein, the Nobel-prize-winning physicist, flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1940
 

1978 Congress restores Jefferson Davis' citizenship
 

1979 Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 

1989 An earthquake registering 7.1 on the Richter Scale hit Northern California, killing 67 people

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