What to remember about October 5th…
- 1829 President Chester A. Arthur is born in North Fairfield, Vermont
- 1864 Confederate forces under General hood fail to sever Union supply lines at Battle of Allatoona
- 1902 American restaurant entrepreneur Ray Kroc is born; bought out McDonald brothers and took the company global
- 1945 After 6-months on strike, workers outside Warner Brother’s Studios begin a week of violent clashes with police and non-union employees
- 1969 Cuban MiG-17 fighter eludes radar to land undetected at Homestead AFB in Florida; pilot defects
- 1974 American David Kunst completes the 1st around-the-world journey on foot; takes 4 years and 21 pairs of shoes
- 1982 Johnson & Johnson initiate nationwide recall of Tylenol because of cyanide deaths due to product tampering
- 1986 American Eugene Hasenfus is captured by Sandinistas after his plane is shot down delivering supplies to Contra rebels; his capture exposes the Iran-Contra affair
- 2001 Robert Stevens becomes 1st fatality in the 2001 anthrax attacks
- 2011 American businessman, technological innovator, and co-founder of Apple Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs dies of cancer (b. 1955)
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