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Aug 30, 1967: Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court justice
On this day in 1967, Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. He would remain on the Supreme Court for 24 years before retiring for health reasons, leaving a legacy of upholding the rights of the individual as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
From a young age, Marshall seemed destined for a place in the American justice system. His parents instilled in him an appreciation for the Constitution, a feeling that was reinforced by his schoolteachers, who forced him to read the document as punishment for his misbehavior. After graduating from Lincoln University in 1930, Marshall sought admission to the University of Maryland School of Law, but was turned away because of the school's segregation policy, which effectively forbade blacks from studying with whites. Instead, Marshall attended Howard University Law School, from which he graduated magna cum lau
Setting up a private practice in his home state of Maryland, Marshall quickly established a reputation as a lawyer for the "little man." In a year's time, he began working with the Baltimore NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), and went on to become the organization’s chief counsel by the time he was 32, in 1940. Over the next two decades, Marshall distinguished himself as one of the country's leading advocates for individual rights, winning 29 of the 32 cases he argued in front of the Supreme Court, all of which challenged in some way the 'separate but equal' doctrine that had been established by the landmark case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). The high-water mark of Marshall's career as a litigator came in 1954 with his victory in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. In that case, Marshall argued that the 'separate but equal' principle was unconstitutional, and designed to keep blacks "as near [slavery] as possible."
In 1961, Marshall was appointed by then-President John F. Kennedy to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, a position he held until 1965, when Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, named him solicitor general. Following the retirement of Justice Tom Clark in 1967, President Johnson appointed Marshall to the Supreme Court, a decision confirmed by the Senate with a 69-11 vote. Over the next 24 years, Justice Marshall came out in favor of abortion rights and against the death penalty, as he continued his tireless commitment to ensuring equitable treatment of individuals--particularly minorities--by state and federal governments.
Today
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
257 - St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1125 - Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
1146 - European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to end war
for all time
1363 - Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the
forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang—are pitted
against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history,
during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
1464 - Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul
II)
1481 - 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish
king Kazimierz IV
1563 - Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 - Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional
Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1645 - Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam
(NY))
1673 - Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands & Lutherans form
anti-French covenant
1682 - William Penn left England to sail to New World
1721 - Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War
1751 - Georg Friedrich Handel completes oratorio
"Jephtha"
1757 - Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats
Prussia [OS=Aug 19]
1776 - US army evacuates Long Island/falls back to
Manhattan, NYC
1781 - French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat
British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War
1791 - The HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef
the previous day.
1799 - Bataafse fleet surrender to English
Composer George Friedrich HandelComposer George Friedrich
Handel 1800 - Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
1813 - Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by
Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1831 - Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle
1835 - Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 - The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman
Allen and John Kirby Allen
1843 - 1st blacks participation in natl political convention
(Liberty Party)
1850 - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
1854 - John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of
Missouri rebels
1860 - 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
1862 - last day of 2nd Battle of Bull Run Va - Confederates
beat Union forces
1862 - Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of
Richmond, KY
1862 - Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in
Tennessee
1873 - Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl
Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1884 - Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey wins middleweight
title in 1st fight with boxing gloves
1885 - 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
Naturalist Charles DarwinNaturalist Charles Darwin 1888 -
Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
1893 - 13rd US Mens Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H
Hovey (64 36 64 64)
1894 - Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger
1895 - Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
1896 - Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared
under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included
the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby
areas.
1897 - The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe
in Madagascar.
1900 - Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South
Africa freed
1901 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
1904 - Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0)
(40 km)
1905 - Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa
1905 - Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack
Chesbro
1906 - Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
1906 - NY Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back
shut-outs
1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle
Walcott.
1910 - Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to
Cleve 5-0 in 11
1912 - St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers,
5-1
1913 - Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in
bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later
overruled
1914 - 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
1914 - Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian
2nd Narev army
1916 - Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
1916 - Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in
Germany
1918 - Czechoslovakia forms independence republic
Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir LeninMarxist Revolutionary
Vladimir Lenin 1918 - Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin
1918 - Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot &
wounded after speech
1919 - Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in
Berlin
1922 - Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in
1922
1925 - 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium
1926 - Jack Hobbs scores 316* at Lord's (Surrey v Middlesex)
1927 - 41st US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty
Nuthall (61 64)
1928 - Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
1932 - Hermann Goering elected chairman (Reichstag)
1933 - Air France forms
1933 - Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police
(PIDE)
1937 - Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight
boxing title
1939 - 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 9, All-Stars
0 (81,456)
1939 - General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of
Dutch army
1939 - Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of
Japanese fleet
Nazi Politician Hermann GoeringNazi Politician Hermann Goering
1939 - NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
1939 - Poland mobilizes
1941 - Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
1941 - St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0
1942 - Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
1944 - 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24,
All-Stars 21 (48,769)
1944 - Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta," premieres
in NYC
1944 - Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
1945 - 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19,
All-Stars 7 (92,753)
1945 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony
1945 - Gen MacArthur lands in Japan
1945 - Hong Kong liberated from Japan
1949 - Roly Jenkins (Worcs v Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick
of the game
1949 - WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC)
begins broadcasting
1951 - US & Philippines sign mutual defense pact
1954 - Hurricane Carol, kills 68
1956 - USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1956 - White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield
HS, Texas
1956 - Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 - US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against
civil rights
1958 - US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1960 - Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
1960 - East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West
Berlin
1961 - 1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB
Parsons
1961 - J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a US
District Court
1961 - Last Spanish troops leave Morocco
1961 - Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning
game
1961 - USSR says it will resume nuclear testing
1962 - Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first
aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before
or after the war.
1963 - Hot Line communications link between Moscow and
Washington, DC installed
1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into
operation.
1964 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf
Open
1965 - Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years
in baseball
1965 - Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction
site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
First Black Supreme Court Justice Thurgood MarshallFirst
Black Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall 1967 - US Senate confirm Thurgood
Marshall as 1st black justice
1968 - 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
1968 - John & Yoko's "One on One" benefit for
children at Madison Square Garden
1969 - 120,000 attend Texas Intl Pop Festival
1969 - 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival,
Tenino Wash
1969 - 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
1969 - Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
1971 - WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square
Garden
1973 - Danny Seiwell quits Wings
1974 - Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail
yard killing 153
1974 - Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from
Vandenberg
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - KTW-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KYAC
(now KKFX)
1976 - Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
Artist & Musician Yoko OnoArtist & Musician Yoko Ono
1976 - Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution
1979 - -Sept 13] Hurricane David, kills 1200 in Florida,
Domincana & Dom Rep
1979 - 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil
hydrogen bombs)
1979 - Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his
21st match
1979 - Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in US
Tennis Open, she loses
1979 - Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in
Plains Ga
1979 - Wildest US Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie
Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated
1980 - Polish government recognizes Solidarity
1981 - Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
1982 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
1983 - 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6
days)
1983 - Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, NY, crowned
1st Miss Teen USA
1983 - WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Phila
1983 - Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut
in space
1984 - 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched
(6 days)
Palestinian Leader Yasser ArafatPalestinian Leader Yasser
Arafat 1984 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1984 - Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play
en route to 36
1984 - Sotherby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock
memorabilla
1986 - Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
1986 - Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US
News World Report)
1987 - 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy
Mayfair
1987 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf
Championship
1987 - Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83
sec
1987 - Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6
win over Milwaukee
1987 - Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's
record (6'10½")
1987 - Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards
(3:57:57)
1987 - Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers
catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
1988 - France performs nuclear test
1988 - Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce
Springsteen
1988 - Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in
1,000 games
1990 - Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father
& son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
1990 - Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.
1991 - Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812
points
1991 - Mike Powell of US, sets then long jump record at 29'
4½" (8.95m)
1991 - Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi
1992 - "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr
Theater NYC after 160 perfs
1992 - "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater
NYC after 229 performances
1992 - 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin
Leonard
1992 - David Lewett & Jane Luu discovers comet:
"1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
1992 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sun-Times Golf Challenge
1993 - 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower
1993 - Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, 2nd largest
mosque in the world
1994 - Gund Arena in Cleve opens
1994 - Largest US Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618
1995 - Cable News Network joins internet
1995 - Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker & Alan Trammell
play in 1,914 game together tying AL record
1997 - 1st WNBA Championshion: Houston Comets beat NY Liberty
1997 - Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a
match (US Open)
1998 - State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1999 - East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
2012 - Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone
2012 - A blast in the in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, China,
kills 26 miners with 21 missing
1146 - European leaders outlawed the crossbow. 1645 - American Indians and the Dutch made a peace treaty at New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam later became known as New York. 1682 - William Penn sailed from England and later established the colony of Pennsylvania in America. 1780 - General Benedict Arnold secretly promised to surrender the West Point fort to the British army. 1806 - New York City's second daily newspaper, the "Daily Advertiser," was published for the last time. 1809 - Charles Doolittle Walcott first discovered fossils near Burgess Pass. He named the site Burgess Shale after nearby Mt. Burgess. 1862 - The Confederates defeated Union forces at the second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA. 1905 - Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut with the Detroit Tigers. 1928 - The Independence of India League was established in India. 1941 - During World War II, the Nazis severed the last railroad link between Leningrad and the rest of the Soviet Union. 1945 - General Douglas MacArthur set up Allied occupation headquarters in Japan. 1951 - The Philippines and the United States signed a defense pact. 1956 - In Louisianna, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opened. 1960 - A partial blockade was imposed on West Berlin by East Germany. 1963 - The "Hotline" between Moscow and Washington, DC, went into operation. 1965 - Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Supreme Court justice. Marshall was the first black justice to sit on the Supreme Court. 1982 - P.L.O. leader Yasir Arafat left Beirut for Greece. 1983 - The space shuttle Challenger blasted off with Guion S. Bluford Jr. aboard. He was the first black American to travel in space. 1984 - The space shuttle Discovery lifted off for the first time. On the voyage three communications satellites were deployed. 1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and several others, were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame. 1991 - The Soviet republic of Azerbaijan declared its independence. 1993 - On CBS-TV "The Late Show with David Letterman" premiered. 1994 - Rosa Parks was robbed and beaten by Joseph Skipper. Parks was known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, which sparked the civil rights movement. 1994 - The largest U.S. defense contractor was created when the Lockheed and Martin Marietta corporations agreed to a merger. 1996 - An expedition to raise part of the Titanic failed when the nylon lines being used to raise part of the hull snapped. 1999 - The residents of East Timor overwhelmingly voted for independence from Indonesia. The U.N. announced the result on September 4.
30 B.C. Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, committed suicide. 1862 The Second Battle of Bull Run took place during the Civil War. 1905 Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut, playing for the Detroit Tigers. 1941 The two-year siege of Leningrad during World War II began. 1963 A hot line between the Kremlin and the White House went into operation to reduce the chances of an accidental war. 1967 Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the first African American Supreme Court justice. 1999 East Timor residents voted to secede from Indonesia.
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/aug30.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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