MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2014

Today is Monday, October 13, the 286th day of 2014. 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), Boston

1943 ― Italy declares war on former ally Germany

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

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 rescued)

1981 ― Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt

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

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

1987 ― Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize