On this day: October 2
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.
2002: A man is shot and killed in a grocery store parking lot in Wheaton, Md., becoming the first victim in a series of sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area, that would leave 10 dead and three critically injured over three weeks. It was later learned that the rampage was perpetrated by John Allen Muhammad with the assistance of 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo. Muhammad would eventually be sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection on Nov. 10, 2009, while Malvo was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
