On this day, Oct. 5

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, Tenn., was nearly leveled by an early morning bombing.

1994 48 people were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide carried out simultaneously in two Swiss villages by members of a secret religious doomsday cult known as the Order of the Solar Temple.

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.

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.

2021 A former Facebook employee, data scientist Frances Haugen, told a Senate panel that the company knew that its platform spread misinformation and content that harmed children, but that it refused to make changes that could hurt its profits.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Glynis Johns, 100. College Football Hall of Fame coach Barry Switzer is 86 R&B singer Arlene Smith (The Chantels), 82. Singer-musician Steve Miller, 80. Rock singer Brian Johnson (AC/DC), 76. Blues musician Rick Estrin, 74. Actor Karen Allen, 72. Writer-producer-director Clive Barker, 71. Astrophysicist-author Neil deGrasse Tyson, 65. Memorial designer Maya Lin, 64. Actor Daniel Baldwin, 63. Hockey Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux, 58. Actor Guy Pearce, 56. Actor Josie Bissett, 53. Singer-actor Heather Headley, 49. Actor Kate Winslet, 48. Rock musician James Valentine (Maroon 5), 45. Rock musician Paul Thomas (Good Charlotte), 43.