DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Thursday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2023. 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.
1958: Racially-desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, was nearly leveled by an early morning bombing.
1983: Solidarity founder Lech Walesa won 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. (Sentenced to 45 years in prison, Bakker was freed in December
1994 after serving 41⁄2 years.)
1994: Forty-eight 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.
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.
2015: The United States, Japan and 10 other nations in Asia and the Americas reached agreement on the landmark Trans-pacific Partnership trade deal.
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.
2018: A jury in Chicago convicted white police officer Jason Van Dyke of seconddegree murder in the 2014 shooting of Black teenager Laquan Mcdonald.
2020: President Donald Trump made a dramatic return to the White House after leaving the military hospital where he was receiving an unprecedented level of care for COVID-19.
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.
2022: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the final papers to annex four regions of Ukraine while his military struggled to control the new territory.