THIS DATE IN HISTORY
Today is Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2023. On this date in:
1869: Political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India.
1919: President Woodrow Wilson had a serious stroke at the White House that left him paralyzed on his left side.
1941: During World War II, German armies launched an all-out drive against Moscow; Soviet forces succeeded in holding on to their capital.
1944: German troops crushed the twomonth-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people had been killed.
1959: Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” made its debut on CBS with the episode “Where Is Everybody?” starring Earl Holliman.
1967: Thurgood Marshall was sworn as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court as the court opened its new term.
1970: One of two chartered twin-engine planes flying the Wichita State University football team to Utah crashed into a mountain near Silver Plume, Colorado, killing 31 of the 40 people on board. 1984: Richard W. Miller became the first FBI agent to be arrested and charged with espionage. (Miller was tried three times; he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but was released after nine years.)
1986: The Senate joined the House in voting to override President Reagan’s veto of stiff economic sanctions against South Africa.
2006: An armed milk truck driver took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, killing five of the girls and wounding five others before taking his own life.
2013: A jury in Los Angeles cleared a concert promoter of negligence, rejecting a lawsuit brought by Michael Jackson’s mother claiming AEG Live had been negligent in hiring the doctor who killed the pop star with an overdose of a hospital anesthetic in 2009.
2016: Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster Vin Scully signed off for the last time, ending 67 years behind the mic for the Los Angeles Dodgers, as he called the team’s 7-1 loss to the Giants in San Francisco.
2019: House Democrats threatened to make White House defiance of a congressional request for testimony and documents potential grounds for an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
2017: Rock superstar Tom Petty died at a Los Angeles hospital at age 66, a day after going into cardiac arrest at his home.
2020: Stricken by COVID-19, President Donald Trump was injected with an experimental drug combination at the White House before being flown to a military hospital, where he was given Remdesivir, an antiviral drug.
2022: Police firing tear gas after an Indonesian soccer match in an attempt to stop violence triggered a disastrous crush of fans that left at least 125 people dead.