Today is Saturday, Oct. 13, the 286th day of 2001. There are 79 days left in the year.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 13, the 286th day of 2001. There are 79 days left in the year.
On this date in 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, is laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
In A.D. 54, Roman emperor Claudius I dies, after being poisoned by his wife, Agrippina. In 1775, the U.S. Navy has its origins as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet. In 1843, the Jewish organization B'nai B'rith is founded in New York City. In 1943, Italy declares war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner. In 1944, American troops enter Aachen, Germany.
In 1960, Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participate in the third televised debate of their presidential campaign. In 1974, longtime television host Ed Sullivan dies in New York City at age 72. In 1981, voters in Egypt participated in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
October 13, 1976: Local artist Martha Burlingham presents an original oil painting to William Clark, president of the Butler Institute of American Art Chapter of the Composers, Artists and Authors of America at its 40th annual program at the institute.
A WRTA bus driver on parole for a murder committed in 1956, is charged with aggravated robbery of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant on South Ave.
Thirteen persons are arraigned in Municipal Court on multiple charges stemming from a sweep by Youngstown vice and narcotics squads across the North Side in which 19 persons were arrested.
October 13, 1961: & quot;This is a time for courage. We cannot surrender. We cannot appease or conditions will grow worse, & quot; U.S. Sen. Frank J. Lausche says at the 65th annual Columbus Day banquet at the Ukrainian Orthodox Center.
William M. Warner is appointed general sales manager of the Packard Electric Division of General Motors Corp. A graduate of Princeton University, he joined GM in 1937 as a research engineer.
A highlight of the 65th annual Columbus Day banquet is the presentation of awards to three residents of Italian descent, Anthony Marino, East High teacher; Antonio Gemma, prominent grocer and civic leader and Dr. Nicholas J. Nardacci, whose plaque was accepted posthumously by his son, Nicholas J. Nardacci Jr., Boardman High football star.
October 13, 1951: A $1.4 million bond issue in the Girard school district would finance construction of a new elementary school at Prospect and Lyman Streets and an addition to the Wilson Avenue school, as well as addition of a cafeteria and a gymnasium-field house at the high school.
The Public Housing Administration in Washington gives the go-ahead for Youngstown's new low-rent housing program, which would provide 935 additional housing units.
The George F. McBane Post of the American Legion in East Palestine agrees to dispense with the annual Armistice Day parade and instead observe the 32nd anniversary of the end of World War I with a dinner dance Nov. 12. The post had sponsored an Armistice Day parade every year since 1919.
October 13, 1926: Ashtabula sheriff H.D. Hannum finds a secret pathway leading from the Zandarski home through a thicket to the woods near East Orwell where a hunter discovered the body of three-year-old Isabel Zandarski. An extensive search had been conducted for three weeks after the girl was reported to have disappeared from her bed.
Three hundred representatives and their friends attend the district conference of the Maytag Co. at the Ohio Hotel in Youngstown followed by an elaborate banquet at which F.I. Maytag of Newton Iowa, state senator and chairman of the board of directors, was the honored guest. Maytag tells the salesmen and agents from northeastern Ohio that the washing machine company has increased its sales 100 percent each year since 1922.
More than 2,000 men representing 13 lodges and societies in the Italian colony of Youngstown march through the downtown streets to celebrate Columbus Day.