What happend on 2nd October

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1978

Baseball: Bucky Dent hits a home run for the New York Yankees to defeat the Boston Red Sox in a one-game play off at Fenway Park. The home run was Dent's 5th of the season.

1968

A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City ends in the Tlatelolco massacre.

1967

Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.

1962

Johnny Carson debuts as host of The Tonight Show.

1959

The Twilight Zone pilot premieres.

1958

Guinea declares itself independent from France.

1955

The ENIAC computer is deactivated at 11:45 PM.

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts (last new episode aired on June 26, 1962).

1951

Gordon Matthew Sumner (Sting) of the band The Police is born.

1950

The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in seven US newspapers.