October 5
Today in America's Present Past
1703 | Cleric Jonathan Edwards was born.
1787 | Founder Thomas Stone died.
1804 | Inventor Robert Parker Parrott was born.
1813 | War of 1812: The Battle of the Thames.
1813 | Shawnee Chief Tecumseh died.
1829 | POTUS: President Chester A. Arthur was born.
1877 | Indian Wars: The Nez Perce War ends.
1878 | Lawyer George B. Vashon died.
1879 | Author John Erskine was born.
1882 | Inventor Robert Goddard was born.
1885 | Entrepreneur Doc Durant died.
1892 | Naturalist Remington Kellogg was born.
1892 | The Dalton gang dies a violent death in a shootout amidst an attempted bank robbery.
1895 | General Walter Bedell Smith was born.
1902 | Entrepreneur Ray Kroc was born.
1924 | Comic strip Little Orphan Annie debuted.
1926 | Mountaineer Willi Unsoeld was born.
1941 | SCOTUS: Justice Louis Brandeis died.
1943 | Musician Steve Miller was born.
1945 | Radio: “Meet The Press” debuted.
1947 | POTUS: Democrat President Truman makes the first televised speech from the White House.
1953 | SCOTUS: Chief Justice Earl Warren was sworn in.
1958 | Astrophysicist and TV personality Neil deGrasse Tyson was born.
1961 | Film: “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” debuted.
1962 | Film: “Dr. No” debuted.
1983 | Entrepreneur Earl Tupper died.
1983 | Actor Jesse Eisenberg was born.
1992 | Congress: A veto override of the passage of a cable-TV regulation package.
1996 | Inventor Seymour Cray died.
2004 | Comedian Rodney Dangerfield died.
2011 | Activist Fred Shuttlesworth died.
2011 | Entrepreneur Steve Jobs died.