Notable Events on October 5th Throughout History

Notable Events on October 5th Throughout History

Today marks the 278th day of the year, with 87 days remaining in 2025. On this day in history, evangelist Jim Bakker was convicted of fraud in 1989, the Dalton Gang faced a near wipeout in 1892, and President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised White House address in 1947. Additionally, Earl Warren became the 14th chief justice of the United States in 1953, and racially desegregated Clinton High School in Tennessee was bombed in 1958. Lech Walesa, the founder of Solidarity, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for his role in Poland's pro-democracy movement. In 1986, Nicaraguan soldiers shot down a cargo plane bound for Contra rebels, uncovering illegal arms shipments in the Iran-Contra Scandal. The year 2001 saw the first anthrax-related death in Florida, and in 2011, Apple founder Steve Jobs passed away at the age of 56. In 2018, a Chicago jury convicted police officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder in the shooting of Laquan McDonald, while in 2020, President Donald Trump returned to the White House after being treated for COVID-19.