Today in History: Oct. 13th Through the Years

Today in History: Oct. 13th Through the Years

Today is Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, marking the 286th day of the year with 79 days remaining. On this day in history, Raj Rajaratnam, a hedge fund billionaire involved in a major insider-trading case, was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2011. The cornerstone of the White House was laid by President George Washington in 1792, while in 1932, President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building. Italy declared war on Germany in 1943, and the Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series in 1960. A tragic plane crash in the Andes in 1972 led to a harrowing survival story. The JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed in 1999 due to lack of evidence, and in 2010, 33 Chilean miners were rescued after being trapped underground for 69 days. Bob Dylan won the Nobel prize in literature in 2016, and in 2021, William Shatner, known for his role as Captain Kirk in "Star Trek," went to space aboard a Blue Origin spacecraft built by Jeff Bezos, reaching an altitude of 66.5 miles in a 10-minute flight.