CHICKEN BUCKETS: TODAY IN HISTORY

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

TODAY IN HISTORY

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

AP Highlight in History:
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.

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On this date in:

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.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Today's Birthdays:

Actress and talk show host Kelly Ripa ("Live with Kelly and Michael") turns 42 years old today.