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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1990: Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked by a passenger seeking asylum in Taiwan. With fuel running low, the pilot attempts to land Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, but the hijacker wrestles the controls away, sending the jet crashing into two airliners on the ground, killing 132 people.
