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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1920: The Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates play in the third, and last, triple-header in MLB history. The Reds won two of the three games. Triple headers are now prohibited under the current collective bargaining agreement, except when the first game is the conclusion of a game suspended from a prior date.
