Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1892

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

1921

The World Series was broadcast on radio for the first time.

1937

President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for a ''quarantine'' of aggressor nations.

1947

In the first televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe.

1953

Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.

1962

The Beatles' first hit, ''Love Me Do,'' was released in the United Kingdom.

1969

''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' made its debut on BBC Television.

1986

American Eugene Hasenfus was captured by Sandinista soldiers after the weapons plane he was riding in was shot down over southern 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 television 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.

1998

Michael Carneal pleaded guilty but mentally ill to fatally shooting three fellow students and wounding five other people at Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky. (He was later sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole for 25 years.)

1999

MCI WorldCom Inc. announced a $115 billion deal to take over Sprint Corp.

1999

Two packed commuter trains collided near London's Paddington Station, killing 31 people.

1830

Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States, was born in Fairfield, Vt.