CHICKEN BUCKETS: TODAY IN HISTORY

Friday, October 05, 2012

AP Highlight in History:
On Oct. 5, 1953, Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.

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On this date in:
1829	Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States, was born in Fairfield, Vt.
1936	Czech playwright, dissident and politician Vaclav Havel was born in Prague.
1937	President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations.
1941	Former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the nation's highest court, died at age 84.
1947	President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised address from the White House.
1962	The Beatles' first hit, "Love Me Do," was released in the United Kingdom.
1969	"Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuted on BBC Television.
1983	Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1986	American Eugene Hasenfus was captured by Sandinista soldiers after the Contra supply plane he was riding in was shot down over Nicaragua.
1988	Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
1989	A jury in Charlotte, N.C., convicted former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his TV show to defraud followers.
1990	A jury in Cincinnati acquitted an art gallery and its director of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
2000	Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, who had refused to accept defeat in the country's presidential election, was ousted when huge mobs rampaged through Belgrade.
2001	A man died of inhaled anthrax in Boca Raton, Fla.
2005	Defying the White House, the Senate voted 90-9 to approve an amendment that would prohibit the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in U.S. government custody.
2005	Sidney Crosby made his NHL debut with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
2007	American track star Marion Jones pleaded guilty to lying when she said that she hadn't taken steroids.
2010	Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani immigrant who'd tried to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, was sentenced to life in pirson by a federal judge in New York.