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Martha, George Grizzard as Nick and Melinda Dillon (whose 23rd birthday it was) as Honey.
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• On this date:
• In A.D. 54, Roman Emperor Claudius I died, poisoned apparently at the behest of his wife, Agrippina (ag-rih-PEE'-nuh).
• In 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrests of Knights Templar on charges of heresy.
• In 1775, the United States Navy had its origins as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.
• In 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
• In 1843, the Jewish organization B'nai B'rith (buh-NAY' brith) was founded in New York City.
• In 1845, Texas voters ratified a state constitution.
• In 1932, President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington.
• In 1944, American troops entered Aachen, Germany, during World War II.
• In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon held the third televised debate of their presidential campaign (Nixon was in Los Angeles, Kennedy in New York).
• In 1972, a Uruguayan chartered flight carrying 45 people crashed in the Andes; 16 survivors who resorted to feeding off the remains of some of the dead in order to stay alive were rescued more than two months later.
• In 1981, voters in Egypt participated in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak (HAHS'-nee moo-BAH'-rahk) the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
• In 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.
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• Ten years ago: Serbia's first presidential elections since the ouster of Slobodan Milosevic (sloh-BOH'-dahn mee-LOH'-shuh-vich) failed because of a low voter turnout. The Anaheim Angels routed the Minnesota Twins 13-5 to win the American League Championship Series in five games. Best-selling historian Stephen E. Ambrose died in Bay St. Louis, Miss., at age 66.
• Five years ago: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, after meeting with human-rights activists in Moscow, told reporters the Russian government under Vladi

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