Today In History, Oct. 13: The White House
Today is Tuesday, October 13.
Today's Highlight in History:
1792: The White House
In 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
1932: U.S. Supreme Court Building
In 1932, President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington.
1944: Aachen, Germany
In 1944, during World War II, American troops entered Aachen, Germany.
1960: John F. Kennedy & Richard Nixon
In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon held the third televised debate of their presidential campaign (Nixon was in Los Angeles, Kennedy in New York).
1962: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
In 1962, Edward Albee's four-character drama "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opened on Broadway.
1972: Chile Air Crash
In 1972, a Uruguayan chartered flight carrying 45 people crashed in the Andes; survivors resorted to feeding off the remains of some of the dead in order to stay alive until they were rescued more than two months later.
1981: Hosni Mubarak
In 1981, voters in Egypt participated in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
1990: Le Duc Tho
In 1990, Le Duc Tho, co-founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party, died in Hanoi a day before his 79th birthday.
2000: Gus Hall
In 2000, longtime American communist Gus Hall died in New York at age 90.
2000: Nobel Peace Prize
In 2000, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
2005: Nalchik, Russia
Ten years ago: Scores of Islamic militants launched simultaneous attacks on police and government buildings in Nalchik, a city in Russia's turbulent Caucasus region, leaving 139 people dead, most of them insurgents.
2005: Nobel Prize In Literature
Ten years ago: British playwright Harold Pinter won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature.
2010: Armenian Gangsters
Five years ago: U.S. authorities announced the arrests of 73 people accused of being part of a vast network of Armenian gangsters and their associates who allegedly used phantom health care clinics and other means to try to cheat Medicare out of $163 million.
2010: Chile Mine Collapse
Five years ago: Rescuers in Chile using a missile-like escape capsule pulled 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground.
2014: Nobel Prize In Economics
One year ago: Frenchman Jean Tirole was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for showing how to encourage better products and competitive prices in industries dominated by a few companies.
2014: U.S. Government Ebola Response
One year ago: President Barack Obama huddled with some of his senior national security aides and with top administration health officials for the latest assessment on the government's response to Ebola in the aftermath of a Dallas nurse's contracting the disease.
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