Daily Calendar for Friday, October 13, 2023

Events

• Cornerstone of the White House was laid– 1792
• The Jewish organization B’nai B’rith was founded– 1843
• Several countries adopted the Greenwich longitude as the prime meridian– 1884
• Boston Americans (now Red Sox) won first World Series– 1903
• The Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series– 1915
• William Golding’s novel, The Lord of the Flies, was published in New York– 1955
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened on Broadway– 1962
• Expo 86 ended in Vancouver, British Columbia– 1986
• The United States Navy Memorial was dedicated, Washington, D.C.– 1987
• Stock market dropped 190.58 points in what was called the Friday the 13th mini-crash– 1989
• A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck central Oklahoma– 2010
• Thirty-three miners trapped underground for more than 2 months were rescued, Copiapo, Chile– 2010
• Actor William Shatner became the oldest person, at age 90, to travel to space– 2021