AP Highlight in History: On Oct. 17, 1989, an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck northern California, killing 67 people and causing $7 billion worth of damage. |
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1777 British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American troops in Saratoga, N.Y., in a turning point of the Revolutionary War.
1931Mobster 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.
1973Arab 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.
1978 President Jimmy Carter signed a bill restoring U.S. citizenship to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
1997The remains of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara were laid to rest in his adopted Cuba, 30 years after his execution in Bolivia.
2001 The House of Representatives announced plans to close for an anthrax sweep after 31 people at the Capitol tested positive for exposure; New York Gov. George Pataki's Manhattan office was evacuated after anthrax was detected.
2001 Israel's tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi was shot to death in the first assassination of a serving Cabinet minister by Palestinians.
1931Mobster 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.
1973Arab 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.
1978 President Jimmy Carter signed a bill restoring U.S. citizenship to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
1997The remains of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara were laid to rest in his adopted Cuba, 30 years after his execution in Bolivia.
Remember...a good communist is a dead communist
2001 The House of Representatives announced plans to close for an anthrax sweep after 31 people at the Capitol tested positive for exposure; New York Gov. George Pataki's Manhattan office was evacuated after anthrax was detected.
2001 Israel's tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi was shot to death in the first assassination of a serving Cabinet minister by Palestinians.
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