Today in History: October 2, Marshall joins Supreme Court

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 2, the 276th time of 2024. There are 90 days near successful the year.

Today successful history:

On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall joined the U.S. Supreme Court astatine its archetypal African American justice; helium would service connected the seat for 24 years until his status successful 1991.

Also connected this date:

In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson had a superior changeable astatine the White House that near him paralyzed connected his near side.

In 1944, German troops crushed the 2-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a 4th of a cardinal radical were killed.

In 1970, 1 of 2 chartered twin-engine planes flying the Wichita State University shot squad to Utah crashed into a upland adjacent Silver Plume, Colorado, sidesplitting 31 of the 40 radical connected board.

In 2006, an equipped beverage motortruck operator took a radical of girls hostage successful an Amish schoolhouse successful Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, sidesplitting 5 of them and wounding 5 others earlier taking his ain life.

In 2016, Hall of Fame shot broadcaster Vin Scully signed disconnected for the past time, ending 67 years down the mic for the Dodgers arsenic helium called a 7-1 nonaccomplishment to the Giants successful San Francisco.

In 2018, writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed by Saudi Arabian officials astatine the Saudi Embassy successful Istanbul, Turkey.

In 2020, stricken by COVID-19, President Donald Trump was injected with an experimental cause operation astatine the White House earlier being flown to a subject hospital, wherever helium was fixed Remdesivir, an antiviral drug.

Today’s Birthdays:

• Film professional Rex Reed is 86.
• Singer-songwriter Don McLean is 79.
• Fashion decorator Donna Karan (KA’-ruhn) is 76.
• Actor Avery Brooks is 76.
• Photographer Annie Leibovitz is 75.
• Singer-actor Sting is 73.
• Actor Lorraine Bracco is 70.
• R&B vocalist Freddie Jackson is 68.
• Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa is 61.
• Singer-songwriter Gillian Welch is 57.
• Actor-talk amusement big Kelly Ripa is 54.
• Actor Efren Ramirez is 51.
• Musician Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes) is 36.