On this day: October 17

October 17: Dessalines Day in Haiti (1806)

Kepler's Supernova

• 1558 – Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, was founded by order of King Sigismund II Augustus.
• 1604 – German astronomer Johannes Kepler observed an exceptionally bright star, now known as Kepler's Supernova (remnant nebula pictured), which had suddenly appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus.
• 1931 – American gangster Al Capone was convicted on five counts of income tax evasion.
• 1940 – The body of Willi Münzenberg, a French communist who was the leading propagandist for the Communist Party of Germany, was found near Saint-Marcellin.
• 2010 – Mary MacKillop was canonised to become the only Australian to be recognised by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint.

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