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October 5
1829 - Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States, was born in Fairfield, Vermont.
1877 - Chief Joseph surrendered to the U.S. Army.
1910 - King Manuel II was overthrown in a revolution and Portugal became a republic.
1931 - Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon completed the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Washington state some 41 hours after leaving Japan.
1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations.
1941 - Former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the nation's highest court, died at age 84.
1947 - In the first televised White House address, President Harry S. Truman urged Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Sundays to help starving people in other countries.
1953 - Earn Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1958 - Racially-desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, was mostly leveled by an early morning bombing.
1962 - The Beatles released their first hit, "Love Me Do," in Britain.
1962 - The first James Bond theatrical feature, "Dr. No" starring Sean Connery as Agent 007, premiered in London.
1983 - Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1988 - Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
1989 - A jury in Charlotte, N.C., convicted former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his TV show to defraud followers. (Although initially sentenced to 45 years in prison, Bakker was freed in December 1994 after serving 4 1/2 years.)
1990 - Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center and its director were acquitted of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs.
2000 - Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was ousted when huge mobs rampaged through Belgrade.
2005 - Defying the White House, the Senate voted 90-9 to approve an amendment that would prohibit the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in U.S. government custody.
2010 - Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani immigrant who'd tried to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in New York.
2011 - Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died at age 56 after a battle with cancer.
2015 - The United States, Japan and 10 other nations in Asia and the Americas reached agreement on the landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
2016 - Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres won the Security Council’s unanimous backing to become the next U.N. secretary-general, succeeding Ban Ki-moon.
2017 - California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation extending protections for immigrants living in the United States illegally; police in California would be barred from asking people about their immigration status or taking part in federal immigration enforcement activities.
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.
2020 - As the Supreme Court began its new term, a statement from conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito suggested that the court needed to revisit its decision to affirm the right to gay marriage.
Birthdays
27 - Joshua Logan Moore (actor)
28 - Kara Royster (actress)
29 - Mercedes Lambre (actress)
31 - Lais Ribeiro (model)
32 - Travis Kelce (football player)
35 - Kevin Bigley (actor)
36 - Brooke Valentine (singer)
36 - Nathalie Kelley (actres)
38 - Nicky Hilton (TV personality)
38 - Jesse Eisenberg (actor)
46 - Kate Winslet (actress)
46 - Scott Weinger (actor)
47 - Heather Headley (actress/singer)
51 - Josie Bissett (actress)
54 - Guy Pearce (actor)
56 - Mario Lemieux (hockey player)
61 - Daniel Baldwin (actor)
63 - Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist/author)
67 - David Bryson (musician)
70 - Karen Allen (actress)
74 - Brian Johnson (singer)
78 - Steve Miller (singer)
80 - Arlene Smith (singer)
84 - Barry Switzer (football coach)
98 - Glynis Johns (actress)
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Today in Sports History - October 5
1915 - Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers steals his 96th base of the season, a new MLB single-season record that would stand until 1962 (Maury Wills, 104).
1919 - Enzo Ferrari debuted in his first race. He later founded the Auto Avio Construzioni Ferrari, an independent manufacturing company.
1921 - The World Series was broadcast on radio for the first time, the series featured the New York Yankees and the New York Giants.
1922 - The New York Yankees and New York Giants play a controversial 3-3 tie in 10 innings in Game 2 of the World Series.
1932 - The Detroit Falcons hockey franchise changed their name to "Red Wings".
1941 - Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike and Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely for Yankees for a famous Baseball World Series error; would have been last out, instead Yankees score 4 and win 7-4; win series, 4-1.
1942 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the New York Yankees in five games to win the World Series.
1953 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in six games to win the World Series for the fifth consecutive year.
1983 - Wayne Gretzky began a streak of scoring that covered 51 games. The streak ended on January 27, 1984.
1991 - Fresno State ties an NCAA record with 49 points in a quarter (2nd qtr) as they rout New Mexico 94-17.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke Mark McGwire's single-season home run record (70) with his 71st and 72nd of the year.
2001 - The Atlanta Braves become the first North American professional sports franchise to win 10 consecutive division titles. (The Boston Celtics (1957-65) and Los Angeles Lakers (1982-90) had both won nine division titles in a row.)
2002 - For the first time in its 42-year old history, the Anaheim Angels win a post-season series.
2003 - The Chicago Cubs won their first postseason series since the 1908 World Series.
2003 - Dante Hall (Kansas City Chiefs) scored on a return in an NFL-record fourth straight game. He scored his fourth touchdown on a return in only 5 games.
2004 - Scottie Pippen announces his retirement from basketball.
2005 - Wayne Gretzky makes his NHL coaching debut with the Phoenix Coyotes.
2007 - Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Penguins) played his first game as captain. He was the youngest player to be named a captain in the NHL.
2007 - After years of denials, Olympic gold medal winning American sprinter Marion Jones admits she used steroids 2000-01; pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators; announces retirement in tearful apology; medals returned to USOC.
2013 - In an all-Russian boxing contest, Wladimir Klitschko beats Alexander Povetkin in 12 round unanimous points decision in Moscow to retain his WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO heavyweight titles
1829 - Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States, was born in Fairfield, Vermont.
1877 - Chief Joseph surrendered to the U.S. Army.
1910 - King Manuel II was overthrown in a revolution and Portugal became a republic.
1931 - Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon completed the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Washington state some 41 hours after leaving Japan.
1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations.
1941 - Former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the nation's highest court, died at age 84.
1947 - In the first televised White House address, President Harry S. Truman urged Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Sundays to help starving people in other countries.
1953 - Earn Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1958 - Racially-desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, was mostly leveled by an early morning bombing.
1962 - The Beatles released their first hit, "Love Me Do," in Britain.
1962 - The first James Bond theatrical feature, "Dr. No" starring Sean Connery as Agent 007, premiered in London.
1983 - Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1988 - Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
1989 - A jury in Charlotte, N.C., convicted former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his TV show to defraud followers. (Although initially sentenced to 45 years in prison, Bakker was freed in December 1994 after serving 4 1/2 years.)
1990 - Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center and its director were acquitted of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs.
2000 - Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was ousted when huge mobs rampaged through Belgrade.
2005 - Defying the White House, the Senate voted 90-9 to approve an amendment that would prohibit the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in U.S. government custody.
2010 - Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani immigrant who'd tried to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in New York.
2011 - Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died at age 56 after a battle with cancer.
2015 - The United States, Japan and 10 other nations in Asia and the Americas reached agreement on the landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
2016 - Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres won the Security Council’s unanimous backing to become the next U.N. secretary-general, succeeding Ban Ki-moon.
2017 - California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation extending protections for immigrants living in the United States illegally; police in California would be barred from asking people about their immigration status or taking part in federal immigration enforcement activities.
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.
2020 - As the Supreme Court began its new term, a statement from conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito suggested that the court needed to revisit its decision to affirm the right to gay marriage.
Birthdays
27 - Joshua Logan Moore (actor)
28 - Kara Royster (actress)
29 - Mercedes Lambre (actress)
31 - Lais Ribeiro (model)
32 - Travis Kelce (football player)
35 - Kevin Bigley (actor)
36 - Brooke Valentine (singer)
36 - Nathalie Kelley (actres)
38 - Nicky Hilton (TV personality)
38 - Jesse Eisenberg (actor)
46 - Kate Winslet (actress)
46 - Scott Weinger (actor)
47 - Heather Headley (actress/singer)
51 - Josie Bissett (actress)
54 - Guy Pearce (actor)
56 - Mario Lemieux (hockey player)
61 - Daniel Baldwin (actor)
63 - Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist/author)
67 - David Bryson (musician)
70 - Karen Allen (actress)
74 - Brian Johnson (singer)
78 - Steve Miller (singer)
80 - Arlene Smith (singer)
84 - Barry Switzer (football coach)
98 - Glynis Johns (actress)
=======================================
Today in Sports History - October 5
1915 - Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers steals his 96th base of the season, a new MLB single-season record that would stand until 1962 (Maury Wills, 104).
1919 - Enzo Ferrari debuted in his first race. He later founded the Auto Avio Construzioni Ferrari, an independent manufacturing company.
1921 - The World Series was broadcast on radio for the first time, the series featured the New York Yankees and the New York Giants.
1922 - The New York Yankees and New York Giants play a controversial 3-3 tie in 10 innings in Game 2 of the World Series.
1932 - The Detroit Falcons hockey franchise changed their name to "Red Wings".
1941 - Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike and Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely for Yankees for a famous Baseball World Series error; would have been last out, instead Yankees score 4 and win 7-4; win series, 4-1.
1942 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the New York Yankees in five games to win the World Series.
1953 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in six games to win the World Series for the fifth consecutive year.
1983 - Wayne Gretzky began a streak of scoring that covered 51 games. The streak ended on January 27, 1984.
1991 - Fresno State ties an NCAA record with 49 points in a quarter (2nd qtr) as they rout New Mexico 94-17.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke Mark McGwire's single-season home run record (70) with his 71st and 72nd of the year.
2001 - The Atlanta Braves become the first North American professional sports franchise to win 10 consecutive division titles. (The Boston Celtics (1957-65) and Los Angeles Lakers (1982-90) had both won nine division titles in a row.)
2002 - For the first time in its 42-year old history, the Anaheim Angels win a post-season series.
2003 - The Chicago Cubs won their first postseason series since the 1908 World Series.
2003 - Dante Hall (Kansas City Chiefs) scored on a return in an NFL-record fourth straight game. He scored his fourth touchdown on a return in only 5 games.
2004 - Scottie Pippen announces his retirement from basketball.
2005 - Wayne Gretzky makes his NHL coaching debut with the Phoenix Coyotes.
2007 - Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Penguins) played his first game as captain. He was the youngest player to be named a captain in the NHL.
2007 - After years of denials, Olympic gold medal winning American sprinter Marion Jones admits she used steroids 2000-01; pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators; announces retirement in tearful apology; medals returned to USOC.
2013 - In an all-Russian boxing contest, Wladimir Klitschko beats Alexander Povetkin in 12 round unanimous points decision in Moscow to retain his WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO heavyweight titles