MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2008

Today is Monday, October 13, the 287th day of 2008. There are 79 days left in the year.

1483 _ Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on the Bible

1860 _ First aerial photo taken in Boston, U.S. (from a balloon)

1919 _ Race riot at Elaine, Ark.

1943 _ Italy declares war on former ally Germany

1944 _ U.S. first army begins battle of Aachen

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

1963 _ ``Beatlemania" is coined after the Beatles appear at the Palladium

1972 _ Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12/23 rescue)

1981 _ Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt

1987 _ First military use of trained dolphins (U.S. Navy in Persian Gulf)