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2012 Event - Hostess Brands reveals its plan to file for bankruptcy and liquidate its assets, claiming contract disputes from the bakery's union worker strike crippled its operations; about 18,500 workers will be laid off

1993 Event - 1st commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial

1984 Event - White Horse by Laid Back hits #26

1963 Event - John F. Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery

1954 Event - Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx

1952 Event - Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus

1941 Event - Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid

1938 Event - Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid

1931 Event - Cornerstones laid for Opera House and Veteran's Building

1925 Event - Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid

1922 Event - Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera

1915 Event - Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.

1913 Event - Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid

1912 Event - Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid

1909 Event - Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv

1903 Event - Cornerstone laid for U.S. Army war college, Washington, D.C.

1899 Event - Victoria and Albert Museum foundation laid England

1892 Event - Foundation Stone of Cathedral of St. John laid (New York City)

1884 Event - Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (New York City)

1879 Event - Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in U.S.)

1879 Event - Cornerstone laid for Honolulu's Iolani Palace

1867 Event - Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria

1866 Event - Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)

1865 Event - 1st U.S. underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania

1865 Event - Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps and is lost

1861 Event - Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle

1841 Event - Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri

1830 Event - Plans for city of Chicago laid out

1829 Event - Cornerstone laid for 1st U.S. mint (Chestnut and Juniper St, Philadelphia)

1823 Birthday - Karl Wilhelm Siemens, inventor, laid undersea cables

1816 Birthday - Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables

1793 Event - Cornerstone laid for Groningen's new townhall

1792 Event - Cornerstone laid for 1st U.S. government building: U.S. Mint in Philadelphia

1754 Birthday - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, France, architect laid out Washington D.C.

1732 Event - Foundation laid for Bank of England

1714 Event - A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street

1648 Event - Cornerstone of Amsterdam townhall laid

1632 Event - Foundation laid in Madrid for Buen Retiro-palace for king Philip IV

1579 Event - Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory

427 Birthday - Plato, born in Athens, Greece, writer, philosopher, mathematician, laid foundations of natural philosophy, science, Western philosophy













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