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
