October 02


Wednesday 02, 1968:

1978 - Baseball: Bucky Dent hits a home run for the New York Yankees to defeat the Boston Red Sox in a one-game play off at Fenway Park. The home run was Dent's 5th of the season.


Monday 02, 1967:

Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.


Monday 02, 1950:

The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in seven US newspapers.


Monday 02, 1944:

World War II: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.


Monday 02, 1780:

American Revolutionary War: British spy John Andre is hanged by American forces for his role in Benedict Arnold's plot to sell West Point to the British Army.


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