TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Monday, Oct. 5, the 279th day of 2020. There are 87 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1892, the Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, was practically wiped out while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kan.
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 Vinson.
In 1955, a stage adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett opened at the Cort Theatre in New York.
In 1958, racially desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tenn., was mostly leveled by an early morning bombing.
In 1983, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1988, Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle during their vice presidential debate, telling Quayle, “Senator, you’re
no Jack Kennedy.”
In 1989, a jury in Charlotte, N.C., convicted former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his television show to defraud followers.
In 2011, Apple founder Steve Jobs, 56, died in Palo Alto.
In 2017, 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 actor Ashley Judd.
In 2018, a jury in Chicago convicted white police officer Jason Van Dyke of seconddegree murder in the 2014 shooting of Black teenager Laquan McDonald.
Today’s birthdays
Actor Glynis Johns is 97. College Football Hall of Fame coach Barry Switzer is 83. Singermusician Steve Miller is 77. Singer Brian Johnson (AC/DC) is 73. Actor Karen Allen is 69. Writer-producer-director Clive Barker is 68. Astrophysicistauthor Neil deGrasse Tyson is
62. Memorial designer Maya Lin is 61. Actor Daniel Baldwin is 60. Hockey Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux is 55. Actor Guy Pearce is 53. Actor Parminder Nagra is
45. Actor Kate Winslet is 45. Actor Jesse Eisenberg is 37. TV personality Nicky Hilton is 37.