October 13
1775 - The U.S. Navy was founded as the Continental Congress authorized the construction of a naval fleet.
1792 - The cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid by President George Washington during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
1932 - President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington.
1843 - The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded.
1943 - Italy declared war on its former Axis partner Germany during World War II.
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.
1974 - Famed talk show host Ed Sullivan died in New York City at age 72.
1981 - Egyptian vice president Hosni Mubarak was elected president, one week after Anwar Sadat's assassination.
1999 - In Boulder, Colorado, the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months of work with prosecutors saying there wasn't enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old beauty queen's slaying.
2003 - The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution expanding the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
2007 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, after meeting with human-rights activists in Moscow, told reporters the Russian government under Vladimir Putin had amassed so much central authority that the power-grab could undermine its commitment to democracy.
2010 - 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.
2011 - Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund billionaire at the center of one of the biggest insider-trading cases in U.S. history, was sentenced by a federal judge in New York to 11 years behind bars.
2016 - Bob Dylan was named winner of the Nobel prize in literature.
2017 - President Donald Trump accused Iran of violating the 2015 nuclear accord, but did not yet pull the U.S. out of the deal or re-impose nuclear sanctions. (Trump would pull the U.S. out of the deal the following May and restore harsh sanctions.)
2021 - U.S. officials said they would reopen land borders to nonessential travel starting in November, ending a 19-month freeze because of the coronavirus pandemic.
2022 - The House Jan. 6 committee voted unanimously to subpoena Donald Trump, demanding the former president's personal testimony as it unveiled startling new video from his closest aides describing his multi-part plan to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Birthdays
22 - Caleb McLaughlin (actor)
32 - Pretty Vee (actress/model)
34 - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (politician)
41 - Ian Thorpe (swimmer)
43 - Lumidee (singer)
43 - Ashanti (singer)
46 - Paul Pierce (basketball player)
52 - Sacha Baron Cohen (actor)
52 - Billy Bush (TV personality)
54 - Rhett Atkins (singer)
54 - Nancy Kerrigan (figure skater)
55 - Tisha Campbell (actress)
56 - Kate Walsh (actress)
58 - Reginald Ballard (actor)
59 - Matt Walsh (actor)
59 - Christopher Judge (actor)
61 - Jerry Rice (football player)
62 - Doc Rivers (basketball coach)
64 - Marie Osmond (singer/TV personality)
66 - Reggie Theus (actor/basketball player)
71 - Beverly Johnson (model)
71 - John Lone (actor)
76 - Sammy Hagar (singer)
77 - Demond Wilson (actor)
77 - Lacy J. Dalton (singer)
82 - Paul Simon (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 13
1903 - The Boston Red Sox defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates to win the first World Series.
1914 - The Boston Braves defeat the Philadelphia Athletics in four games to win the World Series.
1915 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the Philadelphia Phillies in five games to win the World Series.
1921 - The New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees in eight games to win the World Series.
1951 - In Atlanta, GA, a football with a rubber covering was used for the first time. Georgia Tech beat LSU 25-7.
1960 - The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Yankees 10-9 with a walk-off home run in Game 7 to win the World Series.
1967 - The first game of the new American Basketball Association was played with the Oakland Oaks defeating the Anaheim Amigos 132-129. The ABA featured the introduction of a red-white-and-blue colored basketball and the 3-point field goal.
1967 - The Seattle SuperSonics made their NBA debut with a 144-116 loss to the San Francisco Warriors.
1971 - The first World Series night game was telecast on NBC. Baltimore defeated Pittsburgh 4-3 in Game 4 at Three Rivers Stadium.
1985 - Phil Simms (New York Giants) passed for 513 yards against the Cincinnati Bengals. He set NFL records with 62 pass attempts and 29 first downs.
1996 - Kicker Nick Lowrey of the New York Jets breaks Jan Stenerud's NFL record with his 374th career field goal.
1998 - The Pittsburgh Penguins filed for federal Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in their history.
1998 - The NBA canceled regular season games, due to work stoppage, for first time in its 51-year history.
2002 - The Anaheim Angels defeated the Minnesota Twins to advance to their first World Series.
2019 - American gymnast Simone Biles becomes the most decorated gymnast in history after winning her 25th career medal at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.
1775 - The U.S. Navy was founded as the Continental Congress authorized the construction of a naval fleet.
1792 - The cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid by President George Washington during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
1932 - President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington.
1843 - The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded.
1943 - Italy declared war on its former Axis partner Germany during World War II.
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.
1974 - Famed talk show host Ed Sullivan died in New York City at age 72.
1981 - Egyptian vice president Hosni Mubarak was elected president, one week after Anwar Sadat's assassination.
1999 - In Boulder, Colorado, the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months of work with prosecutors saying there wasn't enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old beauty queen's slaying.
2003 - The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution expanding the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
2007 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, after meeting with human-rights activists in Moscow, told reporters the Russian government under Vladimir Putin had amassed so much central authority that the power-grab could undermine its commitment to democracy.
2010 - 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.
2011 - Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund billionaire at the center of one of the biggest insider-trading cases in U.S. history, was sentenced by a federal judge in New York to 11 years behind bars.
2016 - Bob Dylan was named winner of the Nobel prize in literature.
2017 - President Donald Trump accused Iran of violating the 2015 nuclear accord, but did not yet pull the U.S. out of the deal or re-impose nuclear sanctions. (Trump would pull the U.S. out of the deal the following May and restore harsh sanctions.)
2021 - U.S. officials said they would reopen land borders to nonessential travel starting in November, ending a 19-month freeze because of the coronavirus pandemic.
2022 - The House Jan. 6 committee voted unanimously to subpoena Donald Trump, demanding the former president's personal testimony as it unveiled startling new video from his closest aides describing his multi-part plan to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Birthdays
22 - Caleb McLaughlin (actor)
32 - Pretty Vee (actress/model)
34 - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (politician)
41 - Ian Thorpe (swimmer)
43 - Lumidee (singer)
43 - Ashanti (singer)
46 - Paul Pierce (basketball player)
52 - Sacha Baron Cohen (actor)
52 - Billy Bush (TV personality)
54 - Rhett Atkins (singer)
54 - Nancy Kerrigan (figure skater)
55 - Tisha Campbell (actress)
56 - Kate Walsh (actress)
58 - Reginald Ballard (actor)
59 - Matt Walsh (actor)
59 - Christopher Judge (actor)
61 - Jerry Rice (football player)
62 - Doc Rivers (basketball coach)
64 - Marie Osmond (singer/TV personality)
66 - Reggie Theus (actor/basketball player)
71 - Beverly Johnson (model)
71 - John Lone (actor)
76 - Sammy Hagar (singer)
77 - Demond Wilson (actor)
77 - Lacy J. Dalton (singer)
82 - Paul Simon (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 13
1903 - The Boston Red Sox defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates to win the first World Series.
1914 - The Boston Braves defeat the Philadelphia Athletics in four games to win the World Series.
1915 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the Philadelphia Phillies in five games to win the World Series.
1921 - The New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees in eight games to win the World Series.
1951 - In Atlanta, GA, a football with a rubber covering was used for the first time. Georgia Tech beat LSU 25-7.
1960 - The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Yankees 10-9 with a walk-off home run in Game 7 to win the World Series.
1967 - The first game of the new American Basketball Association was played with the Oakland Oaks defeating the Anaheim Amigos 132-129. The ABA featured the introduction of a red-white-and-blue colored basketball and the 3-point field goal.
1967 - The Seattle SuperSonics made their NBA debut with a 144-116 loss to the San Francisco Warriors.
1971 - The first World Series night game was telecast on NBC. Baltimore defeated Pittsburgh 4-3 in Game 4 at Three Rivers Stadium.
1985 - Phil Simms (New York Giants) passed for 513 yards against the Cincinnati Bengals. He set NFL records with 62 pass attempts and 29 first downs.
1996 - Kicker Nick Lowrey of the New York Jets breaks Jan Stenerud's NFL record with his 374th career field goal.
1998 - The Pittsburgh Penguins filed for federal Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in their history.
1998 - The NBA canceled regular season games, due to work stoppage, for first time in its 51-year history.
2002 - The Anaheim Angels defeated the Minnesota Twins to advance to their first World Series.
2019 - American gymnast Simone Biles becomes the most decorated gymnast in history after winning her 25th career medal at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.
