Cornerstone laid for the White House
The cornerstone for the White House, the official office and home of every U.S. president and first lady since 1800 (when John and Abigail Adams moved in near the end of his term), was laid this day in 1792. 1792.
Amid great fanfare, Chilean workers are rescued 69 days after their mine collapsed in the Atacama Desert, Chile. 2010.
The archbishop of Turin, Italy, announced that carbon-14 dating indicated that the Shroud of Turin dates only to the Middle Ages, though the origins of the shroud remain controversial. 1988.
One week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat, voters in Egypt approved Hosni Mubarak as the country’s new president. 1981.
Italy declared war on Nazi Germany. 1943.
After being approved by French voters in a referendum, the constitution of the Fourth Republic is adopted in France. 1946.
Margaret Thatcher (born October 13, 1925, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England—died April 8, 2013, London) was a British Conservative Party politician and prime minister (1979–90), Europe’s first woman prime minister. The only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms and, at the time of her resignation, Britain’s longest continuously serving prime minister since 1827, she accelerated the evolution of the British economy from statism to liberalism and became, by personality as much as achievement, the most renowned British political leader since Winston Churchill. She was a role model for a later prime minister, Liz Truss.
