TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2009

Today is Tuesday, October 13, the 286th day of 2009. There are 79 days left in the year.

1792 _ Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House)

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

1943 _ Italy declares war on former ally Germany

1953 _ Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves patented, Samuel Bagno

1960 _ Third presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood and Kennedy in N.Y.

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

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)

1987 _ Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize