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Local history
50 years ago: 1973
Mayor William C. Stouffer named Oct. 28 as UNICEF Day in Altoona with trick or treaters collecting money for the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund.
25 years ago:1998
The Altoona Drug and Crime Commission, Melvin E. Ellis member, said that the number of criminal indictments in Blair County were on track to reach 2,000, which would be a new record. The previous year's total was 1,864.
10 years ago: 2013
Joel Myers, who founded AccuWeather in State College 51 years ago, donated
$2 million to Penn State for the creation of the Joel N. Myers Weather Center. The company reached about one billion people a day with its weather forecasts.
-- Compiled by Tim Doyle
World history
Today is Friday, Oct. 13, the 286th day of 2023. There are 79 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
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 a half-mile underground.
On this date:
-- In 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid by President George Washington during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
-- In 1960, the Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees in Game 7, 10-9, with a home run hit by Bill Mazeroski.
-- In 2016, Bob Dylan won the Nobel prize in literature.
-- The Associated Press