SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2012

Today is Saturday, October 13, the 287th day of 2012. There are 79 days left in the year.

1483 ― Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on the Bible

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

1943 ― Italy declares war on former ally Germany

1953 ― Burglar alarm ― ultrasonic or radio waves ― patented by Samuel Bagno

1957 ― German Dem Rep recalls the East Mark and issues new currency

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

1982 ― IOC restores two gold medals from 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe