October 5
1877 - Chief Joseph surrendered to the U.S. Army.
1892 - The Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, was practically wiped out while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kansas.
1910 - King Manuel II was overthrown in a revolution and Portugal became a republic.
1947 - In the first televised White House address, President Harry Truman urged Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Sundays to help starving people in other countries.
1953 - Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.
1958 - Racially-desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, was nearly leveled by an early morning bombing.
1962 - The Beatles released their first hit, "Love Me Do," in Britain.
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. (Sentenced to 45 years in prison, Bakker was freed in December 1994 after serving 4 ½ years.)
1990 - Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center and its director were acquitted of obscenity charges resulting from an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs.
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.
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.
2011 - Steve Jobs 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 at age 56.
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.
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.
Birthdays
23 - Millie Innes (actress)
29 - Joshua Logan Moore (actor)
30 - Stephanie Atala (actress)
34 - Travis Kelce (football player)
37 - Kevin Bigley (actor)
38 - Brooke Valentine (singer)
38 - Nathalie Kelley (actress)
40 - Nicky Hilton (reality star)
40 - Jesse Eisenberg (actor)
45 - James Valentine (musician)
48 - Kate Winslet (actress)
48 - Scott Weinger (actor)
49 - Heather Headley (singer/actress)
53 - Josie Bissett (actress)
56 - Guy Pearce (actor)
58 - Mario Lemieux (hockey player)
63 - Daniel Baldwin (actor)
65 - Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist)
72 - Karen Allen (actress)
76 - Brian Johnson (singer)
80 - Steve Miller (singer)
86 - Barry Switzer (football coach)
100 - Glynis Johns (actress)
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Today in Sports History - October 5
1901 - Nebraska defeats Doane 29-0.
1907 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 39-0.
1912 - Nebraska opens the season with a 61-0 win over Bellevue.
1918 - Nebraska opens the season with a 12-0 loss to Cockeye.
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.
1929 - Nebraska opens the season under new head coach Dana X. Bible with a 0-0 tie against Southern Methodist.
1932 - The Detroit Falcons introduced a new name (the Red Wings) and new uniforms to the city of Detroit.
1935 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 20-7.
1940 - Nebraska opens the season with a 13-7 loss to Minnesota.
1942 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the New York Yankees in five games to win the World Series.
1946 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 31-0.
1957 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 14-7.
1963 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 21-7.
1974 - #6 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 54-0.
1985 - #13 Nebraska defeats New Mexico 38-7.
1991 - Fresno State ties an NCAA record with 49 points scored in the second quarter in a 94-17 rout of New Mexico.
1996 - #7 Nebraska defeats #16 Kansas State 39-3.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke Mark McGwire's single-season home run record when he hit 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.
2002 - Nebraska defeats McNeese State 38-14.
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 - Hockey great Wayne Gretzky makes his NHL head coaching debut with the Phoenix Coyotes in a 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks.
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, triple gold medal winning American sprinter Marion Jones admits she used steroids in 2000 and 2001; she pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators, announces her retirement and returns her medals to the USOC.
2013 - Nebraska defeats Illinois 39-19.
2019 - Nebraska defeats Northwestern 13-10.
1877 - Chief Joseph surrendered to the U.S. Army.
1892 - The Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, was practically wiped out while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kansas.
1910 - King Manuel II was overthrown in a revolution and Portugal became a republic.
1947 - In the first televised White House address, President Harry Truman urged Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Sundays to help starving people in other countries.
1953 - Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.
1958 - Racially-desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, was nearly leveled by an early morning bombing.
1962 - The Beatles released their first hit, "Love Me Do," in Britain.
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. (Sentenced to 45 years in prison, Bakker was freed in December 1994 after serving 4 ½ years.)
1990 - Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center and its director were acquitted of obscenity charges resulting from an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs.
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.
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.
2011 - Steve Jobs 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 at age 56.
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.
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.
Birthdays
23 - Millie Innes (actress)
29 - Joshua Logan Moore (actor)
30 - Stephanie Atala (actress)
34 - Travis Kelce (football player)
37 - Kevin Bigley (actor)
38 - Brooke Valentine (singer)
38 - Nathalie Kelley (actress)
40 - Nicky Hilton (reality star)
40 - Jesse Eisenberg (actor)
45 - James Valentine (musician)
48 - Kate Winslet (actress)
48 - Scott Weinger (actor)
49 - Heather Headley (singer/actress)
53 - Josie Bissett (actress)
56 - Guy Pearce (actor)
58 - Mario Lemieux (hockey player)
63 - Daniel Baldwin (actor)
65 - Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist)
72 - Karen Allen (actress)
76 - Brian Johnson (singer)
80 - Steve Miller (singer)
86 - Barry Switzer (football coach)
100 - Glynis Johns (actress)
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Today in Sports History - October 5
1901 - Nebraska defeats Doane 29-0.
1907 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 39-0.
1912 - Nebraska opens the season with a 61-0 win over Bellevue.
1918 - Nebraska opens the season with a 12-0 loss to Cockeye.
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.
1929 - Nebraska opens the season under new head coach Dana X. Bible with a 0-0 tie against Southern Methodist.
1932 - The Detroit Falcons introduced a new name (the Red Wings) and new uniforms to the city of Detroit.
1935 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 20-7.
1940 - Nebraska opens the season with a 13-7 loss to Minnesota.
1942 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the New York Yankees in five games to win the World Series.
1946 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 31-0.
1957 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 14-7.
1963 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 21-7.
1974 - #6 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 54-0.
1985 - #13 Nebraska defeats New Mexico 38-7.
1991 - Fresno State ties an NCAA record with 49 points scored in the second quarter in a 94-17 rout of New Mexico.
1996 - #7 Nebraska defeats #16 Kansas State 39-3.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke Mark McGwire's single-season home run record when he hit 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.
2002 - Nebraska defeats McNeese State 38-14.
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 - Hockey great Wayne Gretzky makes his NHL head coaching debut with the Phoenix Coyotes in a 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks.
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, triple gold medal winning American sprinter Marion Jones admits she used steroids in 2000 and 2001; she pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators, announces her retirement and returns her medals to the USOC.
2013 - Nebraska defeats Illinois 39-19.
2019 - Nebraska defeats Northwestern 13-10.
