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2002 - A man was shot and killed in a grocery store parking lot in Wheaton, Maryland, becoming the first victim in a series of sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area, that left 10 dead.

October 4 1970 : Janis Joplin Dies

Singer Janis Joplin dies from a heroin overdose at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood.
Joplin's unrestrained personality and passionate, raspy voice made her a symbol of the intensity and rebellious spirit of the late 1960s.

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October 5, 1947 : First presidential speech on TV

On this day in 1947, President Harry Truman (1884-1972) makes the
first-ever televised presidential address from the White House, asking
Americans to cut back on their use of grain in order to help starving
Europeans.
At the time of Truman's food-conservation speech, Europe was still
recovering from World War II and suffering from famine. Truman, the
33rd commander in chief, worried that if the U.S. didn't provide food
aid, his administration's Marshall Plan for European economic recovery
would fall apart. He asked farmers and distillers to reduce grain use
and requested that the public voluntarily forgo meat on Tuesdays, eggs
and poultry on Thursdays and save a slice of bread each day. The food
program was short-lived, as ultimately the Marshall Plan succeeded in
helping to spur economic revitalization and growth in Europe.
In 1947, television was still in its infancy and the number of TV sets
in U.S. homes only numbered in the thousands (by the early 1950s,
millions of Americans owned TVs); most people listened to the radio
for news and entertainment. However, although the majority of
Americans missed Truman's TV debut, his speech signaled the start of a
powerful and complex relationship between the White House and a medium
that would have an enormous impact on the American presidency, from
how candidates campaigned for the office to how presidents
communicated with their constituents.
Each of Truman's subsequent White House speeches, including his 1949
inauguration address, was televised. In 1948, Truman was the first
presidential candidate to broadcast a paid political ad.
Truman pioneered the White House telecast, but it was President
Franklin Roosevelt who was the first president to appear on TV--from
the World's Fair in New York City on April 30, 1939. FDR's speech had
an extremely limited TV audience, though, airing only on receivers at
the fairgrounds and at Radio City in Manhattan.

October 6, 1866 : First U.S. train robbery

On this day in 1866, the Reno gang carries out the first robbery of a
moving train in the U.S., making off with over $10,000 from an Ohio &
Mississippi train in Jackson County, Indiana. Prior to this innovation
in crime, holdups had taken place only on trains sitting at stations
or freight yards.

This new method of sticking up moving trains in remote locations low
on law enforcement soon became popular in the American West, where the
recently constructed transcontinental and regional railroads made
attractive targets. With the western economy booming, trains often
carried large stashes of cash and precious minerals. The sparsely
populated landscape provided bandits with numerous isolated areas
perfect for stopping trains, as well as plenty of places to hide from
the law. Some gangs, like Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, found robbing
trains so easy and lucrative that, for a time, they made it their
criminal specialty. Railroad owners eventually got wise and fought
back, protecting their trains' valuables with large safes, armed
guards and even specially fortified boxcars. Consequently, by the late
1800s, robbing trains had turned into an increasingly tough and
dangerous job.

As for the Reno gang, which consisted of the four Reno brothers and
their associates, their reign came to an end in 1868 when they all
were finally captured after committing a series of train robberies and
other criminal offenses. In December of that year, a mob stormed the
Indiana jail where the bandits were being held and meted out vigilante
justice, hanging brothers Frank, Simeon and William Reno (their
brother John had been caught earlier and was already serving time in a
different prison) and fellow gang member Charlie Anderson.

1970 : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature