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• In 1935, the first bridge to Douglas Island from Juneau, built at a cost of $225,000, was dedicated.

• In 1920, Josephine Scott of Hydaburg was the first nurse to graduate from a training course in Alaska by completing a three-year course at the Juneau Native Hospital.

• In 1954, despite the late season, a uranium rush was on as more than 100 Anchorage prospectors rushed to the Shirley Lake area (100 miles northwest of Anchorage) following a strike reported on Oct. 11.

In the nation

• In 1775, the U.S. 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 was founded in New York City.

• In 1845, Texas ratified a state constitution.

• In 1960, Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of their presidential campaign.

• In 1962, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," by Edward Albee, opened on Broadway.

• In 1974, longtime television host Ed Sullivan died in New York City at age 72.

• In 1998, White House and congressional budget bargainers continued to hunt for agreement on issues snarling a massive $500 billion bill for the new fiscal year. Five scientists in the United States won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing ways to analyze molecules in chemical reactions and the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering how electrons can change behavior. The National Basketball Association wiped out the first two weeks of the 1998-99 season after collective bargaining talks broke off. The New York Yankees won the American League pennant, defeating the Cleveland Indians 9-5 in game six of their championship series.

• In 2002, 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.

In the world

• In A.D. 54, Roman emperor Claudius I died, after being poisoned by his wife, Agrippina.

• In 1943, Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.

• In 1944, American troops entered Aachen, Germany.

• In 1981, voters in Egypt participated in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.

• In 1993, the U.N. Security Council voted to reimpose sanctions on Haiti unless military leaders there stopped violating a U.N.-brokered accord. A German who had stabbed tennis star Monica Seles received a suspended jail term.

• In 2002, Serbia's first presidential elections since the ouster of Slobodan Milosevic failed because of a low voter turnout.