OCTOBER 13
1960:Presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon take part in the third of their famous debates, this time on opposite sides of a televised split screen, as they are being filmed from different ends of the country. Democratic nominee Kennedy is in New York, while Republican nominee Nixon is in California; the debate is generally termed a Nixon victory.
1962: Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf premieres at Broadway's Billy Rose Theatre. The original cast includes Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill as Martha and George.
1972: A chartered plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team and their friends and family members crashes in the Andes mountains near the Argentina-Chile border, leaving 29 survivors. Despite having to resort to cannibalism to avoid starvation, 16 people would survive the harsh conditions and be rescued on Dec. 23.
1884:Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude
1792:Old Farmer's Almanac first published
1947:"Kukla, Fran & Ollie" show with puppets premieres on TV
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