SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015

Today is Saturday, October 17, the 290th day of 2015. There are 75 days left in the year.

1492 ― Columbus sights isle of San Salvador (Watling Island, Bahamas)

1855 ― Bessemer steelmaking process patented

1860 ― First pro golf tournament held (Scotland) (Willie Park wins)

1918 ― Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic

1931 ― Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison

1933 ― Albert Einstein arrives in the U.S., a refugee from Nazi Germany

1945 ― Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina

1957 ― French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

1961 ― N.Y. Museum of Modern Art hung Henri Matisse's “Le Bateau" upside-down; it wasn't corrected until Dec. 3

1967 ― The play “Hair" is first performed

1977 ― West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing three of the four hijackers

1979 ― Mother Teresa of India, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize