SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2007

Today is Saturday, October 13, the 286th day of 2007. There are 79 days left in the year.

1483 _ Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on the Bible

1845 _ Texas ratifies a state constitution

1943 _ Italy declares war on former ally Germany

1962 _ ``Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen

1969 _ Soyuz 8 is launched

1980 _ Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, N.Y.

1981 _ Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt

1987 _ Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize

1988 _ Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest

1989 _ Dow Jones down 190.58 points