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 United States Supreme Court as its first African-American justice; he would sit on the bench for 24 years until his retirement in 1991.
Also this date:
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a severe stroke in the White House that left him paralyzed on the left side.
In 1944, German troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people were killed.
In 1970, one of two chartered twin-engine planes flying Wichita State University’s 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 in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, killing five of them and injuring five others before taking his own life.
In 2016, Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster Vin Scully signed off for the last 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 killed by Saudi officials at the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey.
In 2020, afflicted with covid-19, President Donald Trump was injected with an experimental drug combination at the White House before being flown to a military hospital, where he received Remdesivir, an antiviral drug.
Today’s birthdays:
- Film critic Rex Reed is 86 years old.
- Singer-songwriter Don McLean is 79 years old.
- Fashion designer Donna Karan (KA’-ruhn) is 76 years old.
- Actor Avery Brooks is 76 years old.
- Photographer Annie Leibovitz is 75 years old.
- The singer-actor Sting is 73 years old.
- The actor Lorraine Bracco is 70 years old.
- R&B singer Freddie Jackson is 68 years old.
- Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa is 61 years old.
- Singer-songwriter Gillian Welch is 57.
- Actor-talk show host Kelly Ripa is 54.
- Actor Efren Ramirez is 51 years old.
- Musician Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes) is 36 years old.