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