Today’s highlights

On Oct. 13, 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 2,300 feet underground.

Also on this date:

1792: The cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid by President George Washington during a ceremony.

1932: President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building.

1943: Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.

1960: The Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees in Game 7, 10-9.

1999: In Boulder, Colorado, the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months of work with prosecutors saying there wasn’t enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old beauty queen’s slaying.

2011: 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.

2016: Bob Dylan was named winner of the Nobel prize in literature.

Today’s birthdays

Gospel singer Shirley Caesar is 86. Singer-musician Paul Simon is 83. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is 82. Singer-musician Sammy Hagar is 77. Model Beverly Johnson is 72. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., is 66. Singer/TV personality Marie Osmond is 65. NBA coach Doc Rivers is 63.