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Today is Thursday, October 5th, 278 days into 2023. There are 87 days left this year.

Today’s history highlights:

On October 5, 1953, Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.

This date:

In 1892, the notorious Dalton Gang of train robbers was nearly wiped out when they attempted to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas.

In 1947, President Harry S. Truman gave his first televised address from the White House about the world food crisis.

In 1958, the segregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, was nearly completely destroyed by an early morning bombing.

In 1983, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa (Lek Waenser) was named the Nobel Peace Prize winner.

In 1989, a jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, convicted former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his television show to defraud his followers. (Bakker was sentenced to 45 years in prison and was released in December 1994 after serving four and a half years.)

In 1994, 48 people were found dead in an apparent simultaneous murder-suicide in two Swiss villages by members of a secret doomsday cult known as the Order of the Sun Temple.

In 2001, tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens died of anthrax inhalation, the first of a series of anthrax incidents in Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Washington.

In 2005, senators, over the objections of the White House, introduced a proposal by Republican Sen. John McCain to ban “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment” of people in U.S. government custody. The proposed amendment was approved by a vote of 90-9.

In 2011, Steve Jobs, the founder and former chief executive of Apple, who invented and mastered selling the most sophisticated gadgets ever to transform everyday technology, from personal computers to iPods and iPhones, was born in California. He died in Palo Alto at the age of 56.

In 2015, the United States, Japan, and 10 other countries in Asia and the Americas reached agreement on the landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.

In 2017, Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein announced he was taking a leave of absence from the company following a New York Times article detailing decades of sexual harassment allegations against women.

In 2018, a Chicago jury convicted white police officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald.

In 2020, President Donald Trump made a dramatic return to the White House after being released from a military hospital where he was receiving unprecedented levels of treatment for the coronavirus.

In 2021, former Facebook employee and data scientist Francis Haugen told a Senate committee that he knew the company’s platform was spreading misinformation and content that was harmful to children, but that He said he rejected any changes that might damage the system.

In 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a final document to annex four regions of Ukraine, as the Russian military struggles to control new territory.

Birthdays today: Actor Glynis Johns turns 100, College Football Hall of Fame coach Barry Switzer turns 86, R&B singer Arlene Smith (of the Chantels) turns 82, and singer/musician Steve Mr. Miller is 80 years old, and Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., is 80 years old. Rock singer Brian Johnson (AC/DC) is 76 years old. Blues musician Rick Estrin is 74 years old. Actor Karen Allen is 72 years old. Screenwriter/producer/director Clive Barker is 71 years old. Rock musician David Bryson (Counting Crows) is 69 years old. Astrophysicist. Author Neil deGrasse Tyson is 65 years old. Monument designer Maya Lin is 64 years old. Actor Daniel Baldwin is 63 years old. Rock singer and musician Dave Dederer is 59 years old. Hockey Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux is 58 years old. Actor Guy Pearce is 56 years old. Actor Josie Bisset is 53 years old. Singer and actor Heather Headley is his 49th year. Pop-rock singer Colin Meloy (The Decemberists) is in his 49th year. Actor Parminder Nagra (Par Mein Da Naa Gra) is in his 48th year. Actor Scott Weinger is in his 48th year. Actor Kate Winslet is 48 years old. 48. Rock musician James Valentine (Maroon 5) is 45 years old, rock musician Paul Thomas (Good Charlotte) is 43 years old, actor Jesse Eisenberg is 40 years old, and TV personality Nicky Hilton is 40 years old. , actor Azure Parsons is 39 years old, and R&B singer Brooke Valentine is 38 years old. Actor Kevin Bigley is 37 years old, actor Joshua Logan Moore is 29 years old, and actor Jacob Tremblay is 17 years old.

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