Today in History: October 5, Steve Jobs dies at 56
Today is Saturday, Oct. 5, the 279th day of 2024. There are 87 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Oct. 5, 2011, Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former chief executive who invented and master-marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, died in Palo Alto, California, at age 56.
Also on this date:
In 1892, the Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, was practically wiped out while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kansas.
In 1947, President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised White House address as he spoke on the world food crisis.
In 1953, Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.
In 1958, racially desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, was nearly leveled by an early morning bombing.
In 1983, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa (lek vah-WEN’-sah) was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1986, Nicaraguan Sandinista government soldiers shot down a cargo plane carrying weapons and ammunition bound for Contra rebels; the event exposed a web of illegal arms shipments, leading to the Iran-Contra Scandal.
In 1989, a jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, convicted evangelist Jim Bakker of using his television show to defraud followers. Initially sentenced to 45 years in prison, Bakker was freed in December 1994 after serving 4 1/2 years.
In 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.
In 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.
In 2020, President Donald Trump made a dramatic return to the White House after leaving the military hospital where he was being treated for COVID-19.
Today’s Birthdays:
- College Football Hall of Fame coach Barry Switzer is 87.
- Rock musician Steve Miller is 81.
- Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., is 81.
- Rock singer Brian Johnson (AC/DC) is 77.
- Actor Karen Allen is 73.
- Singer-songwriter Bob Geldof is 73.
- Writer-filmmaker Clive Barker is 72.
- Astrophysicist-author Neil deGrasse Tyson is 66.
- Architect-designer Maya Lin is 65.
- Golf Hall of Famer Laura Davies is 61.
- Hockey Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux is 59.
- Hockey Hall of Famer Patrick Roy is 59.
- Actor Guy Pearce is 57.
- Actor Josie Bissett is 54.
- Actor Parminder Nagra (pahr-MIHN’-da NAH’-grah) is 49.
- Actor Kate Winslet is 49.
- Actor Jesse Eisenberg is 41.
- NFL tight end Travis Kelce is 35.
- Actor Jacob Tremblay is 18.
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