On this day: October 2
POSTED: 10:23 PM PDT Oct 01, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Oct 01, 2012
Charles Darwin returns home, Gandhi is born, "Peanuts" is published for the first time, Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court, and the Beltway sniper attacks begin, all on this day.
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1959: The TV series "The Twilight Zone" premieres. Each episode of the show, hosted and created by Rod Serling, featured a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist. The show quickly becomes a popular and critical success and would run for 156 episodes over five seasons.
