Today in History Today is Wednesday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2022. There are 87 days left within the…
Today in History
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2022. There are 87 days left within the 12 months.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Oct. 5, 1953, Earl Warren was sworn in because the 14th chief justice of the US, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.
On this date:
In 1892, the Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, was practically worn out while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kansas.
In 1947, President Harry S. Truman delivered the primary televised White House address as he spoke on the world food crisis.
In 1958, racially-desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, was mostly leveled by an early morning bombing.
In 1983, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa (lek vah-WEN’-sah) was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1989, a jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, convicted former P-T-L evangelist Jim Bakker (BAY’-kur) of using his television show to defraud followers. (Although initially sentenced to 45 years in prison, Bakker was freed in December 1994 after serving 4 1/2 years.)
In 1994, 48 people were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide carried out concurrently in two Swiss villages by members of a secret religious doomsday cult often called the Order of the Solar Temple; five other bodies were found the identical week in a constructing owned by the sect near Montreal, Canada.
In 2001, tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens died from inhaled anthrax, the primary of a series of anthrax cases in Florida, Latest York, Latest Jersey and Washington.
In 2005, defying the White House, senators voted 90-9 to approve an amendment sponsored by Republican Sen. John McCain that will prohibit the usage 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.)
In 2011, Steve Jobs, 56, the Apple founder and former chief executive who’d invented and master-marketed ever sleeker gadgets that transformed on a regular basis technology from the laptop computer to the iPod and iPhone, died in Palo Alto, California.
In 2015, the US, Japan and 10 other nations in Asia and the Americas reached agreement on the landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
In 2018, a jury in Chicago convicted white police officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder within the 2014 shooting of Black teenager Laquan McDonald. (Van Dyke was sentenced to 81 months in state prison.)
In 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 look after COVID-19; Trump immediately ignited a latest controversy by declaring that despite his illness, the nation mustn’t fear the virus.
Ten years ago: A month before the presidential election, the Labor Department reported that unemployment fell in Sept. 2012 to its lowest level, 7.8 percent, since President Barack Obama took office; some Republicans questioned whether the numbers had been manipulated.
Five years ago: Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein announced that he was taking a leave of absence from his company after a Latest York Times article detailed a long time of alleged sexual harassment against women including actor Ashley Judd. The National Rifle Association and the White House expressed support for controls on “bump stock” devices like people who apparently aided the gunman behind the Las Vegas attack; the NRA later said it was against an outright ban on the devices. California Gov. Jerry Brown signed laws extending protections for immigrants living in the US illegally; police in California can be barred from asking people about their immigration status or participating in federal immigration enforcement activities.
One 12 months ago: A former Facebook worker, data scientist Frances Haugen, told a Senate panel that the corporate knew that its platform spread misinformation and content that harmed children, but that it refused to make changes that might hurt its profits. Work at the entire Kellogg Company’s U.S. cereal plants got here to a halt as roughly 1,400 employees went on strike. (The strike would end in December after employees voted to ratify a latest contract.) A Russian actor and a movie director rocketed into space on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to make the world’s first movie in orbit during a 12-day stay on the International Space Station.
Today’s 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. Singer-musician Steve Miller is 79. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., is 79. Rock singer Brian Johnson (AC/DC) is 75. Blues musician Rick Estrin is 73. Actor Karen Allen is 71. Author-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 Parminder Nagra (pahr-MIHN’-da NAH’-grah) is 47. Actor Scott Weinger is 47. Actor Kate Winslet is 47. Rock musician James Valentine (Maroon 5) is 44. Rock musician Paul Thomas (Good Charlotte) is 42. Actor Jesse Eisenberg is 39. TV personality Nicky Hilton is 39. Actor Azure Parsons is 38. R&B singer Brooke Valentine is 37. Actor Kevin Bigley is 36. Actor Joshua Logan Moore is 28. Actor Jacob Tremblay is 16.
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