On this date

A.D. 14 — The Roman Senate officially confirmed Tiberius as the second emperor of the Roman Empire, succeeding the late Augustus. 1793 — President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol. 1810 — Chile made its initial declaration of independence from Spain with the forming of a national junta. 1927 — The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) made its on-air debut with a basic network of 16 radio stations. 1931 — An explosion in the Chinese city of Mukden damaged a section of Japaneseowned railway track; Japan, blaming Chinese nationalists, invaded Manchuria the next day. 1959 — During his U.S. tour, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visited Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the grave of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Khrushchev called on all countries to disarm. 1961 — United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia. 1970 — Rock star Jimi Hendrix died in London at age 27. 1975 — Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. 1980 — The Floyd County Courthouse was named to the National Register of Historic Places. 1987 — The psychological thriller “Fatal Attraction,” starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close, was released by Paramount Pictures. 1990 — The city of Atlanta was named the site of the 1996 Summer Olympics. 2007 — O.J. Simpson was charged with seven felonies, including kidnapping, in the alleged armed robbery of sports memorabilia collectors in a Las Vegas casino-hotel room. (Simpson, sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison, is scheduled to be released on parole in October 2017.)