Today in History - Oct. 2

Today is Thursday, Oct. 2, the 276th day of 2008. There are 90 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. On this date: In 1780, British spy John Andre was hanged in Tappan, N.Y. In 1835, the first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers fought Mexican soldiers near the Guadalupe River; the Mexicans ended up withdrawing. In 1869, political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India. In 1919, President Wilson suffered a stroke at the White House that left him partially paralyzed. In 1941, during World War II, German armies began an all-out drive against Moscow. In 1944, Nazi troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people were... [read full story]