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Today is Wednesday, October 2, the 276th day of 2024. There are 90 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall joined the U.S. Supreme Court in its first African American justice; he would remain on the bench for 24 years until his retirement in 1991.
Also on this date:
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a severe stroke at the White House, leaving him paralyzed on his left side.
In 1944, German troops put down the two-month Warsaw Uprising, killing a quarter of a million people.
In 1970, one of two chartered twin-engine 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.
In 2006, an armed milk truck driver took a group of girls hostage at an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, killing five of them and wounding five others before killing himself.
In 2016, Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster Vin Scully signed away for the final time, ending 67 years behind the microphone for the Dodgers when he called a 7-1 loss to the Giants in San Francisco.
In 2018, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabian officials at the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey.
In 2020, President Donald Trump, stricken with COVID-19, was injected with an experimental drug combination at 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.
- Fashion designer 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 singer Freddie Jackson is 68.
- Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa is 61.
- Singer-songwriter Gillian Welch is 57.
- Actor-talk show host Kelly Ripa is 54.
- Actor Efren Ramirez is 51.
- Musician Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes) is 36.