Bob Dylan named winner of Nobel prize in literature – Chicago Tribune

Today is Monday, October 13, the 286th day of the year 2025. There are 79 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On October 13, 2010, 33 men were rescued from a collapsed Chilean mine after being lifted one by one into capsules 69 days after being trapped 700 meters underground.

Also on this date:

In 1792, the cornerstone of the Executive Mansion, later known as the White House, was laid by President George Washington in a ceremony in the District of Columbia.

In 1932, President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the United States Supreme Court building in Washington.

In 1943, Italy declared war on Germany, its former Axis partner.

In 1960, the Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series by defeating the New York Yankees in Game 7, 10-9, on a home run hit by Bill Mazeroski.

In 1972, a Uruguay-chartered flight carrying 45 people crashed in the Andes. In order to stay alive, survivors had to feed on the remains of some of the dead; 16 people were rescued more than two months later.

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

In 2011, Raj Rajaratnam (rahj rah-juh-RUHT’-nuhm), the hedge fund billionaire at the center of one of the largest insider trading cases in U.S. history, was sentenced by a federal judge in New York to 11 years in prison. He was released early, in 2019.

In 2016, Bob Dylan was named winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

In 2021, Hollywood’s Captain Kirk, 90-year-old William Shatner, blasted into space aboard a ship built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company; the “Star Trek” actor and three other passengers reached an altitude of 66.5 miles (107 kilometers) during a flight lasting just over 10 minutes.