OCTOBER 13th

On this date in:
1775	The Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.
1792	The cornerstone of the White House was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
1843	The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded in New York City.
1845	Texas ratified a state constitution.
1903	The Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0 to win the first World Series five games to three.
1960	Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of the presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood, Calif., and Kennedy in New York.
1960	The World Series ended with a home run for the first time as Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a round-tripper in the ninth inning of Game 7 against the New York Yankees.
1962	"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee opened on Broadway.
1974	TV host Ed Sullivan died at age 73.
1981	Egyptians voted in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
1998	The National Basketball Association canceled the first two weeks of its regular season because of a lockout.
1999	The JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months; prosecutors said there wasn't enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old's strangulation.
2000	South Korean President Kim Dae-jung was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
2005	British playwright Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize in literature.
2006	Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, pleaded guilty in an influence-peddling investigation of Congress.