On this date

In 1931,

Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon completed the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Washington state about 41 hours after leaving Japan.

In 1947,

President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised White House address as he spoke on the world food crisis.

In 1953,

Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.

In 1958,

racially desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tenn., was mostly leveled by an early morning bombing.

In 1989,

a jury in Charlotte, N.C., convicted former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his television show to defraud followers.

In 2001,

tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens died from inhaled anthrax, the first of a series of anthrax cases in Florida, New York, New Jersey and Washington.

In 2011,

Apple founder Steve Jobs, 56, died in Palo Alto, Calif.

Ten years ago:

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin defended her claim that Barack Obama “pals around with terrorists,” referring to his association on a charity board a few years earlier with 1960s radical Bill Ayers.

Five years ago:

In a seaside assault in Somalia and in a raid in Libya’s capital, U.S. military forces struck out against Islamic extremists who had carried out terrorist attacks in East Africa, snatching Abu Anas al-Libi, allegedly involved in the bombings of U.S. embassies 15 years earlier. (Al-Libi has since pleaded not guilty to the embassy bombings.)

One year ago:

Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein announced that he was taking a leave of absence from his company after a New York Times article detailed decades of alleged sexual harassment against women including actress Ashley Judd.