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  Today in history, october seventeenth, Loma Prieta earthquake strikes California. This
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  article is being read by an automated voice generated by Everlett. Today
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  is Saturday, october seventeenth, the two hundred ninetieth day of twenty twenty
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  six. There are seventy five days left in the year. Today In
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  history On October 17, 1989, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Northern
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  California, killing 63 people and causing up to 10 billion worth of
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  damage, also on this date. In seventeen seventy seven, British forces under
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  General John Burgoyne surrendered to American troops in Saratoga, New York, in
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  a turning point of the Revolutionary War. In nineteen thirty one, mobster
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  Al Capone was convicted in Chicago of income tax evasion. He would
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  be sentenced to eleven years in prison, fined fifty thousand dollars, and
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  ordered to pay back taxes. Capone was released in nineteen thirty nine.
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  In nineteen thirty three, Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as
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  a refugee from Nazi Germany. In nineteen sixty seven, Puyi, the last
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  emperor of China, died In
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  Beijing at age sixty one. In 1973, Arab members of OPEC or
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  the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Counties cut oil exports to the United
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  States and other nations supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur War and
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  imposed a full embargo In
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  December. In nineteen seventy nine, Mother Teresa of India was awarded the
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  Nobel Peace Prize. In nineteen eighty nine, Game Three of the World
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  Series was cancelled when the Loma Prieta earthquake struck Northern California just
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  thirty minutes before the game was scheduled to begin at Candlestick Park
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  in San Francisco. It would eventually be played ten days later. In
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  twenty twenty four, Israel announced its forces in Gaza, killed Hamas leader
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  Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of twenty twenty three's Hamas led attack
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  on southern Israel, in which militants abducted two hundred fifty one people
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  and killed some one thousand two hundred others, prompting Israel's retaliatory war
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  that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians in the small coastal
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  strip. Today's birthdays. Singer Gary Puckett is eighty-four. Actor musician Michael McKean
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  is seventy-nine. Former astronaut Mae Jemison is seventy. Country singer Alan Jackson
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  is sixty-eight. Film director Rob Marshals is sixty six. Animator filmmaker Mike
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  Judge is sixty-four. Reggae singer Ziggy Marley is fifty-eight. Musician is fifty-seven.
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  Golf Hall of From Ernie Ells is fifty-seven. Singer Chris Kirkpatrick Ensink
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  is fifty-five. Rapper Eminem is fifty-four. Actor Matthew McFaddian is fifty-two. Former
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  race car driver Kimmy Rikinen is forty seven. Actor Felicity Jones is
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  forty three. Queen Nija is thirty one. Actor Aaron Kellyman is twenty
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  eight.