TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is lican Sen. John McCain that the 278th day. There are would prohibit the use of 87 days left in the year. “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” against anyone in U.S. government custody. (A reluctant President George W. Bush later signed off on the amendment.)
In 2011, Steve Jobs, 56, the Apple founder and former chief executive who’d invented
In 1892, the Dalton Gang, and master-marketed ever notorious for its train robber- sleeker gadgets that transies, was practically wiped out formed everyday technology while attempting to rob a pair from the personal computer of banks in Coffeyville, Kansas. to the iPod and iPhone, died
In 1947, President Harry in Palo Alto, California. S. Truman delivered the In 2015, the United States, first televised White House Japan and 10 other nations address as he spoke on the in Asia and the Americas world food crisis. reached agreement on the
In 1958, racially-desegrelandmark Trans-Pacific Partgated Clinton High School nership trade deal. in Clinton, Tennessee, was In 2018, a jury in Chicago mostly leveled by an early convicted white police offimorning bombing. cer Jason Van Dyke of sec
In 1983, Solidarity founder ond-degree murder in the Lech Walesa was named win- 2014 shooting of Black teenner of the Nobel Peace Prize. ager Laquan McDonald. (Van
In 1989, a jury in Char- Dyke was sentenced to 81 lotte, North Carolina, conmonths in state prison.) victed former P-T-L evangeTen years ago: A month list Jim Bakker of using his before the presidential electelevision show to defraud tion, the Labor Department followers. (Although ini- reported that unemployment tially sentenced to 45 years fell in Sept. 2012 to its lowin prison, Bakker was freed est level, 7.8 percent, since in December 1994 after servPresident Barack Obama took ing 4½ years.) office; some Republicans ques
In 1994, 48 people were tioned whether the numbers found dead in an apparent had been manipulated. murder-suicide carried out Five years ago: Hollysimultaneously in two Swiss wood executive Harvey Weinvillages by members of a stein announced that he was secret religious doomsday taking a leave of absence cult known as the Order of from his company after the Solar Temple; five other a New York Times article bodies were found the same detailed decades of alleged week in a building owned sexual harassment against by the sect near Montreal, women, including actor Canada. Ashley Judd. The National
In 2001, tabloid photo Rifle Association and the editor Robert Stevens died White House expressed supfrom inhaled anthrax, the port for controls on “bump first of a series of anthrax stock” devices like those that cases in Florida, New York, apparently aided the gunNew Jersey and Washington. man behind the Las Vegas
In 2005, defying the attack; the NRA later said it White House, senators voted was opposed to an outright 90-9 to approve an amendban on the devices. ment sponsored by Repub
5, Wednesday, Oct. Today’s Highlight
On Oct. 5, 1953, Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.