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.
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.
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 Europe.
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 mostly leveled by an early morning bombing.
1962 - The first James Bond movie, "Dr. No" starring Sean Connery as Agent 007, premiered in London.
1962 - The Beatles released their first hit, "Love Me Do," in Britain.
1983 - Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named the 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, North Carolina convicted former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his TV show to defraud followers.
1990 - Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center and its director were acquitted of obscenity charges resulting 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 U.S. 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. (A reluctant President George W. Bush later signed off on the amendment.)
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 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.
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 including actor Ashley Judd.
Birthdays
26 - Joshua Logan Moore (actor)
27 - Kara Royster (actress)
28 - Mercedes Lambre (actress)
30 - Lais Ribeiro (model)
31 - Travis Kelce (football player)
34 - Kevin Bigley (actor)
35 - Brooke Valentine (singer)
35 - Nathalie Kelley (actress)
36 - Azure Parsons (actress)
37 - Nicky Hilton (reality star)
37 - Jesse Eisenberg (actor)
45 - Kate Winslett (actress)
45 - Scott Weinger (actor)
46 - Heather Headley (singer/actress)
50 - Josie Bissett (actress)
53 - Guy Pearce (actor)
55 - Mario Lemieux (hockey player)
60 - Daniel Baldwin (actor)
69 - Karen Allen (actress)
73 - Brian Johnson (singer)
77 - Steve Miller (singer)
79 - Arlene Smith (singer)
83 - Barry Switzer (football coach)
97 - 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.
1915 - Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers steals his 96th base of the season, establishing a new major league record. (The record would stand until 1962 when Maury Wills would steal 104.)
1918 - Nebraska opens the season under new head coach William G. Kline 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, featuring the New York Giants and New York Yankees.
1922 - The New York Yankees and New York Giants play to a controversial 3-3 tie in 10 innings in Game 2 of the World Series. (The Giants would go on to win the series 4-0-1.)
1929 - Dana X. Bible makes his debut as Nebraska football coach as the Huskers open the season with a 0-0 tie against Southern Methodist.
1932 - The Detroit Falcons hockey team changed their name to Red Wings.
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.
1953 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in six games to win the World Series.
1957 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 14-7.
1963 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 21-7.
1974 - #6 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 54-0.
1983 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers begins what would become an NHL record 51-game scoring streak.
1985 - #13 Nebraska defeats New Mexico 38-7.
1991 - Fresno State ties the NCAA record for most points scored in a quarter with 49 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 three-year-old single season home run record of 70, when be hit his 71st and 72nd homers of the year.
2001 - The Atlanta Braves become the first professional sports franchise to win 10 consecutive division titles. (The NBA's Boston Celtics (1957-65) and Los Angeles Lakers (1982-1990) had each won nine division titles in a row.)
2002 - Nebraska defeats McNeese State 38-14.
2003 - The Chicago Cubs won their first postseason series since the 1908 World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves in the NLDS.
2003 - Dante Hall of the Kansas City Chiefs scored on a return in an NFL-record fourth consecutive game.
2004 - Scottie Pippen announces his retirement from basketball.
2005 - The NHL opens its regular season after a 10-month lockout of the entire 2004-05 season.
2005 - NHL legend Wayne Gretzky makes his 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, Olympic gold medal winning track star Marion Jones admits she used steroids from 2000 to 2001; she pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators, announces her retirement from track & field and returns her medals to the USOC.
2013 - In an all-Russian boxing contest, Wladimir Klitschko defeats Alexander Povetkin in 12 rounds to retain the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight titles.
2013 - Nebraska defeats Illinois 39-19.
2019 - Nebraska defeats Northwestern 13-10.
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.
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.
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 Europe.
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 mostly leveled by an early morning bombing.
1962 - The first James Bond movie, "Dr. No" starring Sean Connery as Agent 007, premiered in London.
1962 - The Beatles released their first hit, "Love Me Do," in Britain.
1983 - Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named the 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, North Carolina convicted former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his TV show to defraud followers.
1990 - Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center and its director were acquitted of obscenity charges resulting 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 U.S. 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. (A reluctant President George W. Bush later signed off on the amendment.)
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 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.
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 including actor Ashley Judd.
Birthdays
26 - Joshua Logan Moore (actor)
27 - Kara Royster (actress)
28 - Mercedes Lambre (actress)
30 - Lais Ribeiro (model)
31 - Travis Kelce (football player)
34 - Kevin Bigley (actor)
35 - Brooke Valentine (singer)
35 - Nathalie Kelley (actress)
36 - Azure Parsons (actress)
37 - Nicky Hilton (reality star)
37 - Jesse Eisenberg (actor)
45 - Kate Winslett (actress)
45 - Scott Weinger (actor)
46 - Heather Headley (singer/actress)
50 - Josie Bissett (actress)
53 - Guy Pearce (actor)
55 - Mario Lemieux (hockey player)
60 - Daniel Baldwin (actor)
69 - Karen Allen (actress)
73 - Brian Johnson (singer)
77 - Steve Miller (singer)
79 - Arlene Smith (singer)
83 - Barry Switzer (football coach)
97 - 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.
1915 - Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers steals his 96th base of the season, establishing a new major league record. (The record would stand until 1962 when Maury Wills would steal 104.)
1918 - Nebraska opens the season under new head coach William G. Kline 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, featuring the New York Giants and New York Yankees.
1922 - The New York Yankees and New York Giants play to a controversial 3-3 tie in 10 innings in Game 2 of the World Series. (The Giants would go on to win the series 4-0-1.)
1929 - Dana X. Bible makes his debut as Nebraska football coach as the Huskers open the season with a 0-0 tie against Southern Methodist.
1932 - The Detroit Falcons hockey team changed their name to Red Wings.
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.
1953 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in six games to win the World Series.
1957 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 14-7.
1963 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 21-7.
1974 - #6 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 54-0.
1983 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers begins what would become an NHL record 51-game scoring streak.
1985 - #13 Nebraska defeats New Mexico 38-7.
1991 - Fresno State ties the NCAA record for most points scored in a quarter with 49 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 three-year-old single season home run record of 70, when be hit his 71st and 72nd homers of the year.
2001 - The Atlanta Braves become the first professional sports franchise to win 10 consecutive division titles. (The NBA's Boston Celtics (1957-65) and Los Angeles Lakers (1982-1990) had each won nine division titles in a row.)
2002 - Nebraska defeats McNeese State 38-14.
2003 - The Chicago Cubs won their first postseason series since the 1908 World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves in the NLDS.
2003 - Dante Hall of the Kansas City Chiefs scored on a return in an NFL-record fourth consecutive game.
2004 - Scottie Pippen announces his retirement from basketball.
2005 - The NHL opens its regular season after a 10-month lockout of the entire 2004-05 season.
2005 - NHL legend Wayne Gretzky makes his 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, Olympic gold medal winning track star Marion Jones admits she used steroids from 2000 to 2001; she pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators, announces her retirement from track & field and returns her medals to the USOC.
2013 - In an all-Russian boxing contest, Wladimir Klitschko defeats Alexander Povetkin in 12 rounds to retain the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight titles.
2013 - Nebraska defeats Illinois 39-19.
2019 - Nebraska defeats Northwestern 13-10.