Today is Wednesday, October 2nd, the 276th day of 2024. There are 90 days left within the yr.
Today in history:
On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall joined the U.S. Supreme Court as the primary African-American justice; He sat on the bench for twenty-four years until his retirement in 1991.
Also on this date:
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered an enormous stroke within the White House that left his left side paralyzed.
In 1970, certainly one of two chartered twin-engine planes flying the Wichita State University football team to Utah crashed right into a mountain near Silver Plume, Colorado, killing 31 of the 40 people on board.
In 2006, an armed milk truck driver took a gaggle of ladies hostage at an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, killing five of them and wounding five others before taking his own life.
In 2016, Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster Vin Scully returned for the ultimate time, ending 67 years behind the Dodgers microphone when he called a 7-1 loss to the Giants in San Francisco.
In 2018, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed by Saudi officials on the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Türkiye.
In 2020, President Donald Trump, suffering from COVID-19, was injected with an experimental drug combination on the White House before being flown to a military hospital where he was given remdesivir, an antiviral drug.
Today's birthdays:
- Film critic Rex Reed is 86.
- Singer-songwriter Don McLean is 79.
- The dressmaker Donna Karan (KA'-ruhn) is 76.
- Actor Avery Brooks is 76.
- The photographer Annie Leibovitz is 75.
- Singer and actor Sting is 73.
- Actress Lorraine Bracco is 70.
- R&B singer Freddie Jackson is 68.
- Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa is 61 years old.
- Singer-songwriter Gillian Welch is 57.
- Actress and talk show host Kelly Ripa is 54.
- Actor Efren Ramirez is 51.
- Musician Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes) is 36.
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