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Today in History: Thursday, October\u00a0 13, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nOn Oct. 13, 1792, the cornerstone of the White House was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
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1775<\/td>\nThe Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1843<\/td>\nThe Jewish organization B’nai B’rith was founded in New York City.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1845<\/td>\nTexas ratified a state constitution.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1903<\/td>\nThe Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0 to win the first World Series five games to three.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1925<\/td>\nMargaret Thatcher, the first female British prime minister, was born Margaret Roberts in Grantham, England.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1943<\/td>\nItaly declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1960<\/td>\nRichard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of the presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood, Calif., and Kennedy in New York.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1960<\/td>\nThe World Series ended with a home run for the first time as Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a round-tripper in the ninth inning of Game 7 against the New York Yankees.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1962<\/td>\n“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward Albee opened on Broadway.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/td>\nEgyptians voted in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\nThe NBA canceled the first two weeks of its regular season because of a lockout.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\nThe JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months; prosecutors said there wasn’t enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old’s strangulation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nBritish playwright Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize in literature.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nThe United Nations General Assembly appointed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon the next U.N. secretary-general.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nThe Dow Jones industrial average soared 936.42 points \u2013 it’s largest one-day increase \u2013 ending eight consecutive days of stock market declines.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nRescuers in Chile pulled 33 men one by one to freedom 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Singer-songwriter Paul Simon turns 75 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Demond Wilson<\/td>\nActor (“Sanford and Son”)<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sammy Hagar<\/td>\nRock singer<\/td>\n69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maria Cantwell<\/td>\nU.S. senator, D- Wash.<\/td>\n58<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marie Osmond<\/td>\nSinger<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Doc Rivers<\/td>\nBasketball coach, executive<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kelly Preston<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jerry Rice<\/td>\nFootball Hall of Famer<\/td>\n54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Trevor Hoffman<\/td>\nBaseball player<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kate Walsh<\/td>\nActress (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Private Practice”)<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nancy Kerrigan<\/td>\nFigure skater<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paul Pierce<\/td>\nBasketball player<\/td>\n39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ashanti<\/td>\nR&B singer<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actor Sacha Baron Cohen (“Borat”) turns 45 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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