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2A Daily News – Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Today in History By The Associated Press 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 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 1946, Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering 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 1969, peace demonstrators staged activities across the country as part of a ''moratorium'' against the Vietnam War. In 1991, despite sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill, the Senate narrowly confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, 52-48. Ten years ago: Eleven people were killed when a Staten Island ferry slammed into a maintenance pier. (The ferry's pilot, who'd blacked out at the controls, later pleaded guilty to 11 counts of manslaughter.) Five years ago: Republican John McCain repeatedly assailed Democrat Barack Obama's character and campaign positions on taxes, abortion and more in a debate at Hofstra University; Obama parried each accusation, and leveled a few of his own, saying ''100 percent'' of McCain's campaign ads were negative. Today's Birthdays: Former auto executive Lee Iacocca is 89. Jazz musician Freddy Cole is 82. Singer Barry McGuire is 78. Actress Linda Lavin is 76. Rock musician Don Stevenson (Moby Grape) is 71. Actress-director Penny Marshall is 70. Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Palmer is 68. Singer-musician Richard Carpenter is 67. Actor Victor Banerjee is 67.Tennis player Roscoe Tanner is 62. Singer Tito Jackson is 60. Actor-comedian Britain's Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, is 54. Chef Emeril Lagasse is 54. Thought for Today: ''The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.'' — John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-born American economist (1908-2006).