TODAY IN HISTORY

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

1958

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

1969

The British TV comedy program “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” made its debut on BBC 1.

1989

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

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.

2015

The United States, Japan and 10 other nations in Asia and the Americas reached agreement on the landmark TransPacific Partnership trade deal.

Birthdays

Actor Glynis Johns is 98. College Football Hall of Fame coach Barry Switzer is 84. Singermusician Steve Miller is 78. Astrophysicistauthor Neil deGrasse Tyson is 63. Hockey Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux is 56. Actor Guy Pearce is 54. Actor Kate Winslet is 46. Actor Jesse Eisenberg is 38. Actor Joshua Logan Moore is 27.