Today is Thursday, Oct. 13, the 286th day of 2005. There are 79 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Oct. 13, the 286th day of 2005. There are 79 days left in the year. On this date in 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, is laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
In A.D. 54, Roman emperor Claudius I dies, after being poisoned by his wife, Agrippina. In 1775, the United States Navy has its origins as the Continental Congress orders the construction of a naval fleet. In 1843, the Jewish organization B'nai B'rith is founded in New York City. In 1845, Texas ratifies a state constitution. In 1943, Italy declares war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner. In 1944, American troops enter Aachen, Germany. In 1960, Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participate in the third televised debate of their presidential campaign. In 1962, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee opens on Broadway. In 1974, longtime television host Ed Sullivan dies in New York City at age 72. In 1981, voters in Egypt participate in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
October 13, 1980: An all-night negotiating session fails to produce an agreement in the strike by Boardman School District teachers, which is entering its sixth week.
A shotgun blast fired through the side of a mobile home in Lake Park Estates, Weathersfield Township, kills Mrs. Brenda Cheeks, 20, who was nine months pregnant.
The Cincinnati Bengals stun the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, 17-16, ending an 18-game winning streak at Three Rivers Stadium and a 10-0 run for the Steelers when they played the Bengals at home. Matt Bahr's 39-yard field goal to win the game with four seconds left goes wide.
October 13, 1965: The basic steel industry's sharply stepped-up research program is giving consumers a much better and wider range of products that are so economical they are helping producers meet rising costs. So says Robert E. Williams, executive vice president of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., at a meeting of the American Institute of Supply Associations in New York City.
William R. Cribbs, 90, is shot to death in his bed in his farmhouse near Mercer County. Police are holding a 23-year-old woman who lived at the house.
Gov. James A. Rhodes doubles Ohio's cash offer to the Atomic Energy Commission to $10 million in a renewed bid to secure the $280 million atom smasher for the Ravenna Arsenal site.
October 13, 1955: Fred Knott, Republican candidate for mayor, criticizes Mayor Frank X. Kryzan for holding a political meeting in a pool room the day after its operator was arrested for possession of gambling equipment.
Mrs. Sarah Gobel, 74, of Baldwin St., dies after being struck by an automobile at Elm St. and Bissell Ave., Youngstown's 19th traffic fatality of the year, compared to 11 at the same time in 1954.
George R. Roden Jr., manager of engineering window products of the Republic Steel Corp.'s Truscon Steel Division, demonstrates the company's new "hurricane resisting" windows being installed on the 45-story Socony Mobil Building in New York. The windows are designed to resist winds of 140 mph.
October 13, 1930: Lillian LaLumia presides as Queen of Youngstown's Columbus Day celebration.
The American Prison Association meeting in Louisville hears a recommendation from George W. Wickersham, chairman of President Hoover's law enforcement commission, that flogging may prove to be a desirable punishment in the war against banditry and racketeering.
Vending machines that dispense a paper cupful of beer for 20 pfennings are installed on subway stands in Berlin, Germany.