Today in History: October 2, Vin Scully wishes all ‘a pleasant afternoon’ for the last time
In current times is Thursday Oct the th day of There are days left in the year In the present day in history On Oct Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster Vin Scully signed off for the last time ending years behind the mic for the Dodgers as he called a - loss to the Giants in San Francisco Also on this date In President Woodrow Wilson had a serious stroke at the White House that left him paralyzed on his left side Related Articles Activists say Israel is intercepting Gaza-bound aid ships Conservationist Jane Goodall whose work revolutionized the assessment of primates has died FIFA VP pushes back on Trump comments about moving World Cup games from dangerous cities California leads coalition opposing Trump s planned restrictions on learner visas U S Supreme Court lets Lisa Cook remain as a Federal Reserve governor for now In the RMS Queen Mary an ocean liner carrying thousands of American soldiers as a converted troop ship during World War II accidentally rammed and sank the escort ship HMS Curacoa in the North Atlantic killing over crew members aboard the Curacoa In German troops crushed the -month-old Warsaw Uprising during which a quarter of a million people were killed In Thurgood Marshall joined the U S Supreme Court as its first African American justice he would serve on the bench for years until his retirement in In one of two chartered twin-engine planes flying the Wichita State University football unit to Utah crashed into a mountain near Silver Plume Colorado killing of the people on board In an armed milk truck driver took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines Pennsylvania killing five of them and wounding five others before taking his own life In U S -based journalist Jamal Khashoggi a critic of Saudi Arabia s administration was killed by Saudi Arabian functionaries at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul Turkey In stricken by COVID- 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 Nowadays s Birthdays Film critic Rex Reed is Singer-songwriter Don McLean American Pie is Fashion designer Donna Karan KA -ruhn is Actor Avery Brooks is Photographer Annie Leibovitz is Singer-actor Sting is Actor Lorraine Bracco is R B singer Freddie Jackson is Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa is Singer-songwriter Gillian Welch is Actor-talk show host Kelly Ripa is Actor Efren Ramirez is Musician Brittany Howard Alabama Shakes is
