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.
Library of Congress
1967: Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court. Marshall would serve on the court for the next 24 years, compiling a liberal record that included strong support for Constitutional protection of individual rights, especially the rights of criminal suspects against the government.
