Today In History

Today is Friday, Oct. 13, the 286th day of 2017. There are 79 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 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.

ON THIS DATE

› 1775: The United States Navy had its origins as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.

› 1843: The Jewish organization B’nai B’rith was founded in New York City.

› 1932: President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington.

› 1957: CBS-TV broadcast “The Edsel Show,” a one-hour live special starring Bing Crosby designed to promote the new, ill-fated Ford automobile. (It was the first special to use new videotape technology to delay the broadcast to the West Coast.)

› 1962: Edward Albee’s four-character drama “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opened on Broadway.

› 2010: Rescuers in Chile using a missilelike escape capsule pulled 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine a halfmile underground.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Gospel singer Shirley Caesar is 80. Actress Melinda Dillon is 78. Singer-musician Paul Simon is 76. Singer-musician Sammy Hagar is

70. Pop singer John Ford Coley is 69. Actor John Lone is 65. Model Beverly Johnson is 65. Producer-writer Chris Carter is

61. NBA coach Doc Rivers is 56. Actress T’Keyah Crystal Keymah is 55. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice is 55. Actress Kelly Preston is 55. Country singer John Wiggins is 55. Actor Christopher Judge is 53. Actor Matt Walsh is 53. Classical singer Carlos Marin (Il Divo) is 49. Olympic silver medal figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is 48. Country singer Rhett Akins is

48. Classical crossover singer Paul Potts is 47. TV personality Billy Bush is 46. Actor Sacha Baron Cohen is 46. NBA All-Star Paul Pierce is 40. DJ Vice is 39. Olympic gold medal swimmer Ian Thorpe is 35. Actor Caleb McLaughlin (TV: “Stranger Things”) is 16.