1/5 Syrian Democratic Forces troops celebrate the October 17, 2017, liberation of Raqqa, Syria, on October 20, 2017. File Photo by Youssef Rabih Youssef/EPA Oct. 17 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1931, gangster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion. It took jurors four days to decide whether the mobster had cheated the Internal Revenue Service out of $215,000. Advertisement In 1933, German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein fled Nazi Germany, settling in the United States and becoming an American citizen in 1940. In 1945, Juan Peron became dictator of Argentina. He remained in power for 11...