TODAY IN HISTORY

OnOct. 5, 1892, theDalton Gang, notorious for train robberies, was practically wiped out while attempting to rob banks in Coffeyville, Kansas.

In 1947, PresidentHarry S. Truman delivered the first televised WhiteHouse address as he spoke on the world food crisis.

In 1953, EarlWarrenwas sworn in as the 14th chief justice of theUnited States, succeeding FredM. Vinson.

In 1955, a stage adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank” opened at the Cort Theatre inNewYork.

In 1958, racially desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, was mostly leveled by an early morning bombing.

In 1983, Solidarity founder LechWalesawas named winner of theNobel Peace Prize.

In 1988, Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted RepublicanDan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, “You’re no JackKennedy.”

In 1989, a jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, convicted former P-T-L evangelist Jim Bakker of using his television showto defraud followers.

In 2001, tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens died frominhaled anthrax, the first of a series of anthrax cases in Florida, NewYork, NewJersey andWashington.

In 2011, Apple founder Steve Jobs, 56, died in Palo Alto, California.

In 2017, Hollywood executiveHarveyWeinstein announced that hewas taking a leave of absence fromhis company after a NewYork Times article detailed decades of alleged sexual harassment against women including actor Ashley Judd.