DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2022. There are 87 days left in the year. On this date in:
1892: The Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, was practically wiped out while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kansas.
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.
1983: Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1989: A jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, convicted former P-T-L evangelist Jim Bakker of using his television show to defraud followers.
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; five other bodies were found the same week in a building owned by the sect near Montreal, Canada.
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.
2005: Defying the White House, senators voted 90-9 to approve an amendment sponsored by Republican Sen. John Mccain that would prohibit the use of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” against anyone in U.S. government custody. (A reluctant President George W. Bush later signed off on the amendment.)
2011: Steve Jobs, 56, the Apple founder and former chief executive who’d invented and master-marketed ever sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology from the personal computer to the ipod and iphone, died in Palo Alto, California.
2015: The United States, Japan and 10 other nations in Asia and the Americas reached agreement on the landmark Trans-pacific Partnership trade deal.
2018: A jury in Chicago convicted white police officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of Black teenager Laquan Mcdonald. (Van Dyke was sentenced to 81 months in state prison.)
2020: President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House after leaving the military hospital where he was receiving an unprecedented level of care for COVID-19; Trump immediately ignited a new controversy by declaring that despite his illness, the nation should not fear the virus.
Oct. 5 birthdays
Actor Glynis Johns is 99. College Football Hall of Fame coach Barry Switzer is 85. R&B singer
Arlene Smith (The Chantels) is 81. Singermusician Steve Miller is 79. Rock singer
Brian Johnson (AC/DC) is 75. Blues musician Rick Estrin is 73. Actor Karen Allen is 71. Writer-producer-director Clive Barker is 70. Rock musician David Bryson (Counting Crows) is 68. Astrophysicist-author Neil degrasse Tyson is 64. Memorial designer Maya Lin is 63. Actor Daniel Baldwin is 62. Rock singer-musician Dave Dederer is 58. Hockey Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux is 57. Actor Guy Pearce is 55. Actor Josie Bissett is 52. Singer-actor Heather Headley is 48. Pop-rock singer Colin Meloy (The Decemberists) is 48. Actor
Kate Winslet is 47. Rock musician
James Valentine (Maroon 5) is 44. Actor Jesse Eisenberg is 39.