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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1836: Charles Darwin returns to England after five years of acquiring knowledge around the world about fauna, flora, wildlife and geology. He would use the information to develop his "theory of evolution," which he unveils in his 1859 book "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection."
