Al Capone, Albert Einstein, U.S. Attacked

On this day: October 17

Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion (1931)

Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the U.S. (1933)

For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship (1941)

b: Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Theodor Eicke (1892), Zhao Ziyang (1919)

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