OCTOBER 2
1950:The comic strip "Peanuts," by Charles M. Schulz, is published for the first time in newspapers around the country. United Feature Syndicate changes the name from "Li'l Folks" to "Peanuts" over Schulz's objection. Happy 60th birthday, Charlie Brown.
1919: After an exhausting whistle-stop tour in support of the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations, President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke while in the White House. Despite being partially paralyzed, Wilson will serve the remainder of his term.
1967: Thurgood Marshall, former chief counsel for the NAACP in the Brown v. Board of Education case, is sworn in as the U.S. Supreme Court's first African American associate justice.
1919: After an exhausting whistle-stop tour in support of the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations, President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke while in the White House. Despite being partially paralyzed, Wilson will serve the remainder of his term.
1967: Thurgood Marshall, former chief counsel for the NAACP in the Brown v. Board of Education case, is sworn in as the U.S. Supreme Court's first African American associate justice.
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