Jailhouse Rock premiered on October 17, 1957 in Memphis, Tennessee and was released nationwide on November 8, 1957. It peaked at number 3 on the Variety box office chart, and reached number 14 in the year’s box office totals, grossing $4 million.
An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale hit the San Francisco Bay area in California. The quake caused about 67 deaths, 3,000 injuries, anddamages up to $7 billion.
On this day in 1931, one of the most famous gangsters of all time Al Capone is sentenced to eleven years in Federal prison for tax evasion. He is also fined $80,000. This is the beginning of the end for Capone and his criminal empire, that in the 1920s and 1930s, had virtually run the city of Chicago and its environs.
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947) .
Capone was released early from Alcatraz in 1939 for good behavior, after spending his final year in a prison hospital, suffering from syphilis. He died in 1947 at age 48 at his home in Palm Island, Florida.