On this day: October 2

POSTED: 10:23 PM PDT October 1, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT October 1, 2012 
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall

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.