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In 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. In 1943, Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner. In 1944, during World War II, American troops entered Aachen, Germany. 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). 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 to stay alive until they were rescued more than two months later. In 1999, the Senate rejected the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, with 48 senators voting in favor and 51 against, far short of the 67 needed for ratification. In 2003, the U.N. Security Council approved a resolution expanding the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Afghanistan. In 2006, the United Nations General Assembly appointed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon the next U.N. secretary-general. In 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 halfmile underground. Ten years ago: 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. Five years ago: Bob Dylan was named winner of the Nobel prize in literature.
One year ago: In the first of two days of questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett deflected Democrats’ questions on abortion, health care and a possible disputed-election fight; she declined to say whether she would recuse herself from any electionrelated cases involving President Donald Trump.