• Today is Tuesday, Oct. 15, the 288th day of 2013. There are 77 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Oct. 15, 1917, Dutch dancer Mata Hari, convicted of spying for the Germans, was executed by a French firing squad outside Paris.
• On this date:
• In 1858, the seventh and final debate between senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place in Alton, Ill.
• In 1860, 11-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, N.Y., wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, suggesting he could improve his appearance by growing a beard.
• In 1928, the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin landed in Lakehurst, N.J., completing its first commercial flight across the Atlantic.
• In 1937, the Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have and Have Not" was first published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
• In 1945, the former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed for treason.
• In 1946, Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering (GEH'-reeng) fatally poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.
• In 1951, the classic sitcom "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS with the episode "The Girls Want to Go to the Nightclub."
• In 1964, it was announced that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev (KROOSH'-chef) had been removed from office.
• In 1969, peace demonstrators staged activities across the country as part of a "moratorium" against the Vietnam War.
• In 1976, in the first debate of its kind between vice presidential nominees, Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in Houston.
• In 1991, despite sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill, the Senate narrowly

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