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 S. 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.
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.
1983 - Solidarity founder Lech Walsea 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. (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 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; five other bodies were found the same week in a building owned by the sect near Montreal, Canada.
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. (A reluctant President George W. Bush later signed off on the amendment.)
2011 - Steve Jobs, Apple founder and former chief executive of the company who 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 after a battle with cancer.
2012 - 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.
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.
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.
2018 - A jury in Chicago convicted white police officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of Black teenager Laquan McDonald. (Van Dyke was sentenced to 81 months in state prison.)
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.
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.
Birthdays
24 - Erica Banks (singer)
26 - Imaan Hammam (model)
28 - Joshua Logan Moore (actor)
29 - Kara Royster (actress)
30 - Mercedes Lambre (actress)
32 - Taylour Paige (actress)
36 - Kevin Bigley (actor)
37 - Brooke Valentine (singer)
37 - Nathalie Kelley (actress)
39 - Nicky Hilton (reality star)
39 - Jesse Eisenberg (actor)
42 - Paul Thomas (musician)
44 - James Valentine (musician)
47 - Kate Winslet (actress)
47 - Scott Weinger (actor)
48 - Heather Headley (actress/singer)
52 - Josie Bissett (actress)
55 - Guy Pearce (actor)
57 - Mario Lemieux (hockey player)
58 - Dave Dederer (singer)
62 - Daniel Baldwin (actor)
64 - Neil deGrasse Tyson (author/astrophysicist)
71 - Karen Allen (actress)
75 - Brian Johnson (singer)
79 - Steve Miller (singer)
81 - Arlene Smith (singer)
85 - Barry Switzer (football coach)
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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 in 5-0 loss to Cleveland Indians; stands as MLB record until 1962 (Maury Wills, 104).
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.
1922 - The New York Yankees and New York Giants play out a controversial 10-inning 3-3 tie in Game 2 of the World Series.
1929 - Dana X. Bible makes his coaching debut with Nebraska, as the Huskers open the season with a 0-0 tie against Southern Methodist.
1932 - The Detroit Falcons introduced a new name (the Redwings) 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.
1941 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in five games to win the World Series.
1942 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the New York Yankees in six 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.
1983 - Wayne Gretzky began a streak of scoring that covered 51 games. The streak ended on January 27, 1984.
1985 - #13 Nebraska defeats New Mexico 38-7.
1991 - Fresno State sets an NCAA record with 49 points scored in the second quarter as they rout New Mexico 94-17.
1996 - #7 Nebraska defeats #16 Kansas State 39-3.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke Mark McGwire's record of 71 home runs in one season when he hit his 71st and 72nd of the year.
2001 - The Atlanta Braves become the first North American major professional sports team to win 10 consecutive division titles; the Boston Celtics (1957-65) and Los Angeles Lakers (1982-90) had each won nine in a row.
2002 - For the first time in the franchise's 42-year history, the Anaheim Angels win a postseason baseball series.
2002 - Nebraska defeats McNeese State 38-14.
2003 - The Chicago Cubs won their first postseason baseball series since 1908.
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 the NBA.
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 pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators, announces her retirement from track and field 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 S. 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.
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.
1983 - Solidarity founder Lech Walsea 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. (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 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; five other bodies were found the same week in a building owned by the sect near Montreal, Canada.
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. (A reluctant President George W. Bush later signed off on the amendment.)
2011 - Steve Jobs, Apple founder and former chief executive of the company who 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 after a battle with cancer.
2012 - 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.
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.
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.
2018 - A jury in Chicago convicted white police officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of Black teenager Laquan McDonald. (Van Dyke was sentenced to 81 months in state prison.)
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.
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.
Birthdays
24 - Erica Banks (singer)
26 - Imaan Hammam (model)
28 - Joshua Logan Moore (actor)
29 - Kara Royster (actress)
30 - Mercedes Lambre (actress)
32 - Taylour Paige (actress)
36 - Kevin Bigley (actor)
37 - Brooke Valentine (singer)
37 - Nathalie Kelley (actress)
39 - Nicky Hilton (reality star)
39 - Jesse Eisenberg (actor)
42 - Paul Thomas (musician)
44 - James Valentine (musician)
47 - Kate Winslet (actress)
47 - Scott Weinger (actor)
48 - Heather Headley (actress/singer)
52 - Josie Bissett (actress)
55 - Guy Pearce (actor)
57 - Mario Lemieux (hockey player)
58 - Dave Dederer (singer)
62 - Daniel Baldwin (actor)
64 - Neil deGrasse Tyson (author/astrophysicist)
71 - Karen Allen (actress)
75 - Brian Johnson (singer)
79 - Steve Miller (singer)
81 - Arlene Smith (singer)
85 - Barry Switzer (football coach)
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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 in 5-0 loss to Cleveland Indians; stands as MLB record until 1962 (Maury Wills, 104).
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.
1922 - The New York Yankees and New York Giants play out a controversial 10-inning 3-3 tie in Game 2 of the World Series.
1929 - Dana X. Bible makes his coaching debut with Nebraska, as the Huskers open the season with a 0-0 tie against Southern Methodist.
1932 - The Detroit Falcons introduced a new name (the Redwings) 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.
1941 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in five games to win the World Series.
1942 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the New York Yankees in six 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.
1983 - Wayne Gretzky began a streak of scoring that covered 51 games. The streak ended on January 27, 1984.
1985 - #13 Nebraska defeats New Mexico 38-7.
1991 - Fresno State sets an NCAA record with 49 points scored in the second quarter as they rout New Mexico 94-17.
1996 - #7 Nebraska defeats #16 Kansas State 39-3.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke Mark McGwire's record of 71 home runs in one season when he hit his 71st and 72nd of the year.
2001 - The Atlanta Braves become the first North American major professional sports team to win 10 consecutive division titles; the Boston Celtics (1957-65) and Los Angeles Lakers (1982-90) had each won nine in a row.
2002 - For the first time in the franchise's 42-year history, the Anaheim Angels win a postseason baseball series.
2002 - Nebraska defeats McNeese State 38-14.
2003 - The Chicago Cubs won their first postseason baseball series since 1908.
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 the NBA.
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 pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators, announces her retirement from track and field and returns her medals to the USOC.
2013 - Nebraska defeats Illinois 39-19.
2019 - Nebraska defeats Northwestern 13-10.
