1 of 6 | A gas station sign tells customers it's out of gas on January 29, 1974, amid an energy crisis. On October 17, 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries declared an oil embargo on countries supporting Israel in its war with Egypt, Syria and Jordan. File Photo by Warren K. Leffler/U.S. Library of Congress 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,...