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Weekend of October 5-7, 2018

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On this day in . . .

• 1775, General George Washington writes to the president of the Continental Congress, John Jay, to inform him of espionage. Washington described how a coded letter to a British officer, Major Crane, came into his possession. On November 7, 1775, shortly after the conviction of the traitor, the Continental Congress added a mandate for the death penalty as punishment for acts of espionage to the "articles of war."

• 1864, the Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die

• 1892, the Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, was practically wiped out while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kan.

• 1905, Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908

• 1914, World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill

• 1921, the World Series was carried on radio for the first time as Newark, N.J., station WJZ (later WABC) relayed a telephoned play-by-play account of the first game from the Polo Grounds, where the New York Giants were facing the New York Yankees, to a studio announcer who repeated the information on the air. (Although the Yankees won the opener, 3-0, the Giants won the series, 5-3.)

• 1931, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon completed the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Washington state some 41 hours after leaving Japan

• 1937, President Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations

• 1947, President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised White House address as he spoke on the world food crisis

• 1953, the New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers to win their fifth World Series in a row

• 1955, a stage adaptation of "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett opened at the Cort Theatre in New York

• 1970, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded

• 1974, American David Kunst completes the first round-the-world journey on foot, taking four years and 21 pairs of shoes to complete the 14,500-mile journey across the land masses of four continents. He was accompanied by his brother, John, but in 1972 John Kunst was shot to death by bandits in Afghanistan and David was wounded. After returning home to Minnesota to recuperate, Kunsk traveled back to Afghanistan and continued his global journey with another brother, Peter. Peter had to drop out later for health reasons, and David Kunst completed his trek alone, returning to Waseca on October 5, 1974

• 1981, President Ronald Reagan signed a resolution granting honorary American citizenship to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving about 100,000 Hungarians, most of them Jews, from the Nazis, ym"sh, during World War II

• 2001, Barry Bonds set a new mark for homeruns in a single season, hitting numbers 71 and 72, but San Francisco was eliminated from the playoffs with an 11-10 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers (His "accomplishments" remain under investigation)

• 2005, defying the White House, senators 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

• 2009, President Barack Obama filled the Rose Garden with doctors supportive of his health care overhaul, saying "nobody has more credibility with the American people on this issue than you do." It didn't last very long

• 2013, in a stealthy seaside assault in Somalia and in a raid in Libya's capital, U.S. military forces struck out against Islamic terrorists who had carried out deadly attacks in East Africa, snatching Abu Anas al-Libi, allegedly involved in the bombings of U.S. embassies 15 years earlier. (Al-Libi has since pleaded not guilty to the embassy bombings.)

• 2017, Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein announced that he was taking a leave of absence from his company after a New York Times article detailed decades of alleged sexual harassment against women including actress Ashley Judd. ALSO: The National Rifle Association and the White House expressed support for controls on "bump stock" devices like those that apparently aided the gunman behind the Las Vegas attack; the NRA later said it was opposed to an outright ban on the devices. AND: California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation extending protections for immigrants living in the United States illegally; police in California would be barred from asking people about their immigration status or taking part in federal immigration enforcement activities

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