Robert Craig Knievel, known professionally as Evel Knievel, was an American stunt performer and entertainer. Throughout his career, he attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps. Knievel was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999.

1938Les Murray, Australian anthologist, poet, and critic (died 2019)^[†]

Leslie Allan Murray was an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spanned over 40 years and he published nearly 30 volumes of poetry as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings.

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1938Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (born 1854)^[†]

Karl Johann Kautsky was a Czech-Austrian Marxist theorist. One of the most authoritative promulgators of orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895, he was for decades the leading theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Second International. His influence was so pervasive that he was often called the "Pope of Marxism", and his views dominated European Marxism until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

Headlines from October 17, 1938

Italy Arrests Many Jews; Charges Anti-Fascist Plot

JERUSALEM CENTER OF ARAB ATTACKS; Tension Increasing in Old City--British Plan Stronger Steps to End the Disturbances Bomb Thrown In City JERUSALEM CENTER OF ARAB ATTACKS Swiss Plan a Possibility Eastern Jewry to Meet British Report Awaited

Fire Crisis May Close Adirondacks to Hunters

LEHMAN AND DEWEY ON TOUR THIS WEEK; Governor to Open Up-State Fight in Binghamton, His Opponent in Rochester LEHMAN AND RIVAL ON TOUR THIS WEEK Organizing Young Democrats

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