Today is Thursday, October 13, the 286th day of 2011. There are 79 days left in the year.
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
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
1987 ― First military use of trained dolphins (U.S. Navy in Persian Gulf)
1987 ― Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize