On This Day (October 2...)

1535: Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal

1950: The comic strip "Peanuts" first appears (9 newspapers print it).

1959: Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS.

1967: Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st African-American Supreme Court Justice.

1980: Larry Holmes retains WBC Heavyweight title, defeating Muhammad Ali.