TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Oct. 2, 1967

Thurgood Marshall was sworn as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court as the court opened its new term.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1919

President Woodrow Wilson suffered a serious stroke at the White House that left him paralyzed on his left side.

1941

During World War II, German armies launched an all-out drive against Moscow; Soviet forces succeeded in holding onto their capital.

1944

German troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people had been killed.

1950

The comic strip “Peanuts,” created by Charles M. Schulz, was syndicated to seven newspapers.

1970

One of two chartered twinengine planes flying the Wichita State University football team to Utah crashed into a mountain near Silver Plume, Colorado, killing 31 of the 40 people on board.

1971

The music program “Soul Train” made its debut in national syndication.

1984

Richard W. Miller became the first FBI agent to be arrested and charged with espionage.

2002

The Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks began, setting off a frantic manhunt lasting three weeks.

2013

A jury in Los Angeles cleared a concert promoter of negligence, rejecting a lawsuit brought by Michael Jackson’s mother claiming AEG Live had been negligent in hiring Conrad Murray, the doctor who killed the pop star with an overdose of a hospital anesthetic.

2017

Rock superstar Tom Petty died at a Los Angeles hospital at the age of 66, a day after suffering cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu, California.