On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first black to serve on the high court.
On Oct. 2, 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the Indian nationalist leader whose philosophy of nonviolence influenced movements around the world, was born. Following his death on Jan. 30, 1948, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first African-American to serve on the high court.
On This Date
| 1869 | Political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India. |
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| 1890 | Comedian Groucho Marx was born in New York. |
| 1919 | President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed. |
| 1944 | Nazi troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which 250,000 people were killed. |
| 1950 | The comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz was first published. |
| 1958 | The former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence. |
| 1959 | "The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS. |
| 1985 | Actor Rock Hudson died at age 59 after a battle with AIDS. |
| 1990 | The Senate voted 90-9 to confirm Supreme Court nominee David H. Souter. |
| 2000 | The International Space Station got its first residents as an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule for a four-month stay. |
| 2002 | A man was shot and killed in a grocery store parking lot in Wheaton, Md., the first victim in a series of sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area that left 10 dead. |
| 2006 | A man took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five and wounding five others before committing suicide. |
Historic Birthdays
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
10/2/1869 - 1/30/1948
Spiritual and political leader of Indian independence movement.Go to obituary »
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Richard III 10/2/1452 - 8/22/1485 King of England |
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Saint Charles Borromeo 10/2/1538 - 11/3/1584 Italian Roman Catholic bishop |
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Nat Turner 10/2/1800 - 11/11/1831 American slave hanged for leading violent slave uprising |
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Paul Von Hindenburg 10/2/1847 - 8/2/1934 German military officer and politician |
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Ferdinand Foch 10/2/1851 - 3/20/1929 French army general |
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Sir William Ramsay 10/2/1852 - 7/23/1916 British chemist |
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Cordell Hull 10/2/1871 - 7/23/1955 American diplomat |
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Wallace Stevens 10/2/1879 - 8/2/1955 American poet |
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Groucho Marx 10/2/1890 - 8/19/1977 American comedian |
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Bud Abbott 10/2/1897 - 4/24/1974 American comedian |
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Charles Stark Draper 10/2/1901 - 7/25/1987 American engineer |
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Graham Greene 10/2/1904 - 4/3/1991 English novelist |