TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Oct. 5, 1983

Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

ALSO ON THIS DATE

1829

The 21st president of the United States, Chester Alan Arthur, was born in North Fairfield, Vermont.

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.

1947

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

1953

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

1958

Racially-desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, was mostly leveled by an early morning bombing.

1988

Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle during their vice presidential debate, telling Quayle, “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”

1989

A jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, convicted former P-T-L evangelist Jim Bakker of using his television show to defraud followers.