Today In History - October 13

1601 Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies
1775 The Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet
1792 Washington lays the cornerstone of the Executive Mansion aka the White House
1812 Battle of Queenston Heights
1843 B'nai B'rith is founded in New York
1845 Texas ratifies a state constitution
1860 The first aerial photo is taken in US
1919 Race riot at Elaine Arkansas
1943 Italy declares war on former ally Germany
1944 The US First army begins battle of Aachen
1947 The TV series "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" premieres
1953 A Burglar alarm using ultrasonic or radio waves is patented
1960 The 3rd presidential debate takes place: Nixon in Hollywood and Kennedy in New York
1962 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway
1963 "Beatlemania" is coined after the Beatles appear at the Palladium
1970 Angela Davis is arrested in New York City
1972 Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in the Andes Mountain
1973 Teri Garr appears on the Bob Newhart Show in "Emily in for Carol"
1974 Ed Sullivan dies at age 73
1978 James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King, marries Anna Sandhu
1980 Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, New York
1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected president of Egypt
1982 The Olympic Committee restores two gold medals from the 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe
1984 "John Henry" becomes the first thoroughbred to win $6 million
1987 The first military use of trained dolphins
1987 Costa Rican Pres Oscar Arias wins the Nobel Peace Prize
1988 A concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest
1989 The Dow Jones drops 190.58 points in one day

1769 Horace H. Hayden
1853 Lillie Langtry
1885 Harry Hershfield
1890 Conrad Richter
1891 Irene Rich
1902 Arna Bontemps
1902 Franco Giorgetti
1911 Ticker Freeman
1915 Cornel Wilde
1917 Burr Tillstrom
1917 Laraine Day Roosevelt
1920 Albert Hague
1920 Nipsey Russell
1921 Harper MacKay
1921 Yves Montand
1922 Alan Scott
1924 Terry Gibbs
1925 Frank Gilroy
1925 Lenny Bruce
1925 Margaret Thatcher
1927 Anita Kerr
1931 Ed Matthews
1936 Cliff Gorman
1938 Jim McMullan
1939 Melinda Dillon
1942 Pamela Tiffin
1942 Paul Simon
1946 Demond Wilson
1946 Lacy J. Dalton
1948 Leona Mitchell
1949 Sammy Hagar
1959 Marie Osmond
1960 Joey Belladonna
1961 Jerry Rice
1962 Kelly Preston
1969 Cady McClain