This day in history - October 5
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:43 pm
1892 - The Dalton Gang of train and bank robbers came to a bad end at the hands of armed citizens in Coffeyville, Kansas.
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1931 - Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon completed the first non-stop flight across the Pacific, from Japan to the state of Washington.
1947 - President Truman made the first nationally televised presidential address. The topic was cutting consumption of meat and eggs in the face of worldwide food shortages after WW II -- something that seems unimaginable today.
1953 - Earl Warren was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the U.S.
1958 - The public high school in Clinton, Arkansas, was bombed after two years of contentious desegregation efforts.
2001 - The first victim of the anthrax mailer died in Boca Raton, Florida.
(This incident just barely meets my definition of history because it was never solved, and the only identified suspect is dead.)
- Jim
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1931 - Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon completed the first non-stop flight across the Pacific, from Japan to the state of Washington.
1947 - President Truman made the first nationally televised presidential address. The topic was cutting consumption of meat and eggs in the face of worldwide food shortages after WW II -- something that seems unimaginable today.
1953 - Earl Warren was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the U.S.
1958 - The public high school in Clinton, Arkansas, was bombed after two years of contentious desegregation efforts.
2001 - The first victim of the anthrax mailer died in Boca Raton, Florida.
(This incident just barely meets my definition of history because it was never solved, and the only identified suspect is dead.)
- Jim
