On This Day:
Saturday October 5, 2013 This is the 278th day of the year, with 87 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: rodeo Rodeo is a sport consisting of a series of contests and exhibitions involving riding, roping, and related skills. The rodeo was developed by cowboys around 1864, during the era of the range cattle industry in the western United States and northern Mexico. The word rodeo is Spanish for "a going around, esp. a cattle ring." Today, a professional rodeo contest consists of seven events: bareback riding, steer wrestling, team roping, saddle bronc riding, tie-down roping, steer roping, bull riding, and barrel racing.
Holidays Feast day of St. Flora of Beaulieu, St. Maurus, St. Magenulf or Meinulf, St. Apollinaris of Valence, and St. Galla.
Events 1796 - Spain declared war on Britain, during the Revolutionary Wars.
1813 - During the War of 1812, British troops allied with Indians under Tecumseh, were defeated at the Battle of the Thames near Ontario, Canada, by General William H. Harrison's American forces. Tecumseh was killed in the battle.
1877 - Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians surrendered to U.S. General Nelson A. Miles in the Bear Paw Mountains, Montana, after a 1,700-mile trek to reach Canada falls 40 miles short.
1880 - First ballpoint pen with its own ink supply and retractable tip was patented by Alonzo T. Cross.
1892 - The Dalton Gang was nearly wiped out while trying to rob two banks simultaneously in their hometown of Coffeyville, Kansas. Emmett Dalton, the only survivor, was wounded and sentenced to life in prison.
1908 - Bulgaria declared its independence from Turkey.
1910 - Portugal was proclaimed a republic when King Manuel II was driven from the country by revolutionaries.
1911 - Italian troops occupied Tripoli, in Libya, during its war with Turkey.
1915 - Germany issued an apology and promises for payment for the 128 American passengers killed in the sinking of the British ship Lusitania.
1947 - U.S. President Harry Truman delivered the first televised White House address.
1950 - Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life" had its TV premiere.
1953 - Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1969 - A Cuban defector entered U.S. airspace undetected and landed a MIG-17 at an Air Force base near Miami, Florida.
1970 - British trade commissioner James Richard Cross was kidnapped in Canada by militant Quebec separatists.
1970 - Anwar Sadat succeeded Gamal Nasser as president of Egypt.
1974 - American David Kunst completed the first round-the-world journey on foot, taking four years and 21 of shoes to accomplish the 14,450-mile journey across four continents.
1986 - Soldiers from Nicaragua's Communist government shot down a U.S. cargo plane found to be carrying military supplies to the Contras, who were waging a guerilla war against the ruling Sandinista government. Survivor Eugene Hasenfus admitted he was employed by the CIA.
1989 - A jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, convicted former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his television show to defraud followers.
1999 - MCI WorldCom, Inc. announced a $115 billion deal to take over Sprint Corporation.
2001 - Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants set a new mark for home runs in a single season, hitting his 71st and 72nd.
2003 - Israel bombed an Islamic Jihad base in Syria.
Births 1713 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher.
1830 - Chester Arthur, 21st President of the United States of America (1881-1885).
1882 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist.
1902 - Ray Kroc, American entrepreneur, McDonald's founder.
1902 - Larry Fine (born Louis Feinberg), American actor and comedian, who is best-known as a member of the comedy act The Three Stooges.
1922 - Bil Keane, American cartoonist, best known for his work on the long-running strip The Family Circus.
1936 - Vaclav Havel, president of Czechoslovakia.
1941 - Eduardo Duhalde, former president of Argentina.
1957 - Bernie Mac (born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough), actor and comedian, born in Chicago, Illinois.
1962 - Michael Andretti, retired CART and Formula One race car driver, born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
1975 - Kate Winslet, English actress.
Deaths 1285 - Philip III (the Bold), King of France.
1813 - Tecumseh, Shawnee Indian chief and brigadier general with British Army in War of 1812.
1941 - American Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis.
2001 - Mike Mansfield, longest-serving United States Senate majority leader (1961-1977) and ambassador to Japan.
2004 - Rodney Dangerfield (born Jacob Cohen), was an American comedian and actor, best known for the catch phrase "I don't get no respect."
2006 - Antonio Peña, Mexican founder of lucha libre professional wrestling.
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