Today in History - History - October 17th

1990"Jackie Mason - Brand New" opens at Neil Simon NYC for 216 perfs

1990Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong drops out of school to pursue a career in music

1979Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1967Barbra Streisand stars on "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS

1957French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

1991Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals & 744 assists)

1933Albert Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany

1651Future King Charles II flees from England

1994Kapil Dev's final one-day international (v West Indies)

1907Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.

1915Arthur Miller, NYC, playwright (Death of a Salesman, Crucible), (d. 2005)

1972Eminem [Marshall Bruce Mathers III], Saint Joseph Missouri, rapper and movie star ('The Real Slim Shady', 'Stan' and '8 Mile')

1982Actor Robert Goulet (48) weds artist/writer Vera Novak in Las Vegas, Nevada

1968Jazz trumpeter Quincy Jones Jr (35) weds actress Ulla Andersson (22)

1945Actress Ava Gardner (22) weds band leader Artie Shaw (35) in Hollywood

1707German composer Johann S Bach marries for the 1st time his cousin Maria Barbara Bach

1826Historian Thomas Carlyle (30) weds Jane Welsh (25)

1975Bee Gees Maurice Gibb weds Yvonne Spencely

1952Country music legend Hank Williams (29) weds Billie Jean Jones in Minden, Louisiana

1749US revolutionary Samuel Adams (27) weds Elizabeth Checkley

2009Musician Trent Reznor (44) weds vocalist Mariqueen Maandig in Los Angeles

1916Cartoonist Rube Goldberg (33) weds Irma Seeman

1868Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)

1849Frederic Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39