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On this day, Oct. 13 ...
2018: A Turkish newspaper reports that Turkish officials have an audio recording of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
Also on this day:
- 1775: The United States Navy has its origins as the Continental Congress orders the construction of a naval fleet.
- 1792: The cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, is laid by President George Washington during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
- 1845: Texas voters ratify a state constitution.
- 1943: Italy declares war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.
- 1962: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", by Edward Albee, opens on Broadway.
- 1972: A Uruguayan chartered flight carrying 45 people crashes in the Andes; survivors resort to feeding off the remains of some of the dead in order to stay alive until their rescue more than two months later
- 1974: Legendary TV host Ed Sullivan dies in New York City at age 73.
- 1999: The Senate rejects the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, with 48 senators voting in favor and 51 against, far short of the 67 needed for ratification.
- 2003: The U.N. Security Council approves a resolution expanding the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
- 2010: Rescuers in Chile, using a missile-like escape capsule, pull 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground.
- 2018: President Trump welcomes American pastor Andrew Brunson to the Oval Office, celebrating his release from nearly two years of confinement in Turkey.