On This Day:
Thursday October 17, 2013 This is the 290th day of the year, with 75 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: dry ice Dry Ice is the trademark for carbon dioxide in its solid form, frozen at -109.3° F or -79.5° C. It is primarily used as a refrigerant. Dry Ice does not melt but goes directly from a solid to a gas in a process called sublimation. It is generally accepted that French chemist, Charles Thilorier, was the first to record the appearance of it in 1835. The Dry Ice Corporation of America first trademarked the name Dry Ice in 1925.
Holidays Feast day of the Ursuline Martyrs of Valenciennes, Saints Ethelbert and Ethelred, St. John the Dwarf, St. Anstrudis or Austrude, St. Seraphino, St. Nothelm, St. Ignatius of Antioch, and St. Rule.
United Nations: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
Events 1777 - British forces under General John Burgoyne surrendered to American troops in Saratoga, New York. It was a turning point of the Revolutionary War.
1914 - An earthquake struck Greece and Asia Minor, killing over 3,000 people.
1931 - Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
1941 - USS Kearney became the first destroyer attacked by a German submarine, when it was torpedoed south of Iceland.
1943 - The Young Communist League declared itself dissolved at a convention in New York and 400 delegates organize American Youth for Democracy, which only offers membership to non-Communists.
1945 - Colonel Juan Peron staged a coup in Argentina.
1960 - Charles Van Doren, a former contestant on the popular TV game show "Twenty-One," was arrested along with 13 others, including television producers Dan Enright and Al Freedman, for perjury.
1973 - Leaders of OPEC decided to suspend oil exports to all nations supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur War. The embargo caused major shortages and gas rationing.
1978 - President Jimmy 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 7.1 on the Richter scale struck northern California, killing 67 people and causing $7 billion worth of damage. It was witnessed on live television by millions of people who were watching the third game of the World Series of baseball, being played in San Francisco.
2001 - Israel's tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi was shot to death by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in the first assassination of a serving Cabinet minister.
Births 1880 - Charles Kraft, American food and cheese entrepreneur.
1885 - Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Danish author.
1912 - Pope John Paul I.
1915 - Arthur Miller, American Tony Award and Emmy Award-winning playwright.
1918 - Rita Hayworth, American film actress.
1938 - Montgomery Clift, American film actor.
1948 - George Wendt, American actor, probably best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the long-running TV sitcom, "Cheers."
1963 - Norm Macdonald, Canadian actor and comedian who joined the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live (SNL) program in 1993.
1972 - Eminem, born Marshall Bruce Mathers III, American rapper.
Deaths 1849 - Polish-French composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin.
1991 - Ernest Jennings Ford, better known by his stage name, Tennessee Ernie Ford.
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