TODAY HISTORY IN

Today is Thursday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2017. There are 87 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Oct. 5, 1947, President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised White House address as he spoke on the world food crisis.

On this date:

In 1829, the 21st president of the United States, Chester Alan Arthur, was born in North Fairfield, Vt.

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 1931, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon completed the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Washington state some 41 hours after leaving Japan.

In 1969, the British TV comedy program “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” debuted on BBC 1.

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

Ten years ago: President George W. Bush defended his administration’s methods of detaining and questioning terrorism suspects, saying both were successful and lawful.

Thought for Today :“America has believed that in differentiation, path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered .”— (1856-1941).