Today in History Today is Tuesday, Oct. 17, the 290th day of 2017. There are 75 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 17, 1931, mobster Al Capone was convicted in Chicago of income tax evasion. (Sentenced to 11 years in prison, Capone was released in 1939.) On this date: In 1610, French King Louis XIII, age nine, was crowned at Reims, five months after the assassination of his father, Henry IV. In 1777, British forces under Gen.