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• Sanchez struck out 12 -- including a record-tying four in the first inning -- but also walked a season-high six and was pulled after six innings and 116 pitches. Al Alburquerque, Jose Veras, Drew Smyly and Benoit stretched the no-hitter through eight innings.

Today in History
The Associated Press

• Today is Sunday, Oct. 13, the 286th day of 2013. There are 79 days left in the year.

• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Oct. 13, 1962, Edward Albee's searing four-character drama "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opened on Broadway with Arthur Hill as George, Uta Hagen as Martha, George Grizzard as Nick and Melinda Dillon (whose 23rd birthday it was) as Honey.

• 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.

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