Daily Calendar for Saturday, October 17, 2026

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Frederic Chopin (composer) – 1849
Laura Secord (Canadian heroine) – 1868
Julia Ward Howe (author and reformer, died in Portsmouth, Rhode Island) – 1910
Julia Ward Howe (author) – 1910
S. J. Perelman (writer) – 1979
Joan Hickson (actress) – 1998
Betty Hill (the woman known as the first lady of UFOs.” Hill and her late husband had the first publicized and best-documented UFO experience”) – 2004
Ray Boone (baseball player) – 2004
Joey Bishop (comedian) – 2007
Levi Stubbs (lead singer of The Four Tops) – 2008

Buck Ewing (first catcher to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame) – 1859
Arthur Miller (author) – 1915
Rita Hayworth (actress) – 1918
Tom Poston (actor) – 1921
Jimmy Breslin (columnist) – 1930
Evel Knievel (stunt motorcyclist) – 1938
Michael McKean (actor) – 1947
Margot Kidder (Actress; born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada) – 1948
George Wendt (actor) – 1948
Mae Jemison (astronaut, physician, professor) – 1956
Alan Jackson (country musician) – 1958

Charles II of England sold Dunkerque to France for 40,000 pounds – 1662
Sam Patch, the Yankee Leaper, jumped 120 feet from a platform atop Niagara Falls into the river below. He survived. – 1829
Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion by a federal court in Chicago and sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939. – 1931
Physicist Albert Einstein arrived in the U.S. as a refugee from Nazi Germany – 1933
Huey, Dewey, and Louie (Donald Duck’s nephews) first appeared in a comic strip – 1937
An earthquake 50 miles out at sea shook eastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island – 1963
Mother Teresa of India was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the destitute in Calcutta. – 1979
Frank Giannino completed his run across the United States. It took him 46 days, 8 hours, and 36 minutes. – 1980
A meteorite chunk struck a house in the San Francisco Bay Area – 2012
Ashrita Furman balanced 100 ice cream scoops on cone – 2013