Bela Lugosi, Five Guys and The Sun

Welcome to October 20, 2011!

1. On this day in 1803, the United States Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase. The U.S. paid $11,500,000 for the territory.

2. On Oct. 20, 1944, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines after famously proclaiming: "I shall return", and takes the islands from the Japanese.   

3. In 1968, former First Lady Jackie Kennedy marries Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. She kept the Onassis name after his death in 1975 until her death in 1994 at the age of 64. 

4. It's the birthday of famed "Dracula" actor Bela Lugosi (1882-1956), New York Yankee Mickey Mantle (1931-1995), American musician Tom Petty (b. 1950), U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis (b 1957), American actor Viggo Mortensen (b. 1958), American rapper Snoop Dogg (b. 1971), "The Office" actor John Krasinski (b. 1979) and Al Quaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (1966-2006).

5. Have you ever ordered a burger online or on your mobile phone? According to Nations Restaurant News: "more than 250,000 people have downloaded Five Guys’ mobile app for Android operating system phones and iPhones." Five Guys, headquartered in Lorton, is a guilty pleasure, and Patch recommends you try a burger or hotdog!

6. The weather will be mostly sunny today with wind gusts up to 33 miles per hour and high temperature of 64. Thursday night will be mostly cloudy, with a low at around 44, according to the National Weather Service.