TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS THURSDAY, OCT. 5, the 278th day of 2017. There are 87 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1947, President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised White House address as he spoke on the world food crisis.
In 1829, the 21st president of the United States, Chester Alan Arthur, was born in North Fairfield, Vt.
In 1941, former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the nation’s highest court, died in Washington at age 84.
In 1953, Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.
In 1969, the British TV comedy program “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” made its debut on BBC 1.
In 1984, the space shuttle Challenger blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center on an 8-day mission; the crew included Kathryn D. Sullivan, who became the first American woman to walk in space, and Marc Garneau, the first Canadian astronaut.
In 1988, Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle during their vice presidential debate, telling Quayle, “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”
In 1990, a jury in Cincinnati acquitted an art gallery and its director of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe.
In 1999, two packed commuter trains collided near London’s Paddington Station, killing 31 people. In 2011, Apple founder Steve Jobs, 56, died in Palo Alto, Calif.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actress Glynis Johns is 94. College Football Hall of Fame coach Barry Switzer is 80. Rhythm-and-blues singer Arlene Smith (The Chantels) is 76. Singer-musician Steve Miller is 74. Rock singer Brian Johnson (AC/DC) is 70. Actress Karen Allen is 66. Writer-producer-director Clive Barker is 65. Astrophysicist-author Neil de-Grasse Tyson is 59. Memorial designer Maya Lin is 58. Actor Daniel Baldwin is 57. Actor Guy Pearce is 50. Actress Josie Bissett is 47. Actress Kate Winslet is 42. Actor Jesse Eisenberg is 34. TV personality Nicky Hilton is 34. Actor Jacob Tremblay is 11.