On This Day October 17th
OTD October 17th is the two hundred nintith day of the year, and there are 75 days remaining until the end of the year. Events 1091 – London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London. 1558 – Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded. 1604 – Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus. 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British General Charles Earl Cornwallis surrendered at the Yorktown Siege. 1814 – Eight people died in the London Beer Flood. 1860 – First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open). 1907 – Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service. 1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States. 1956 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the first commercial nuclear power station in Sellafield, England. 2003 – Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest high-rise.