Today is Thursday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2025. There are 90 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\n
On Oct. 2, 2016, Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster Vin Scully signed off for the last time, ending 67 years behind the mic for the Dodgers as he called a 7-1 loss to the Giants in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Also on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson had a serious stroke at the White House that left him paralyzed on his left side.<\/p>\n
In 1942, 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 300 crew members aboard the Curacoa.<\/p>\n
In 1944, German troops crushed the 2-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people were killed.<\/p>\n
In 1967, Thurgood Marshall joined the U.S. Supreme Court as its first African American justice; he would serve on the bench for 24 years until his retirement in 1991.<\/p>\n
In 1970, one of two chartered twin-engine planes flying the Wichita State University football team to Utah crashed into a mountain near Silver Plume, Colorado, killing 31 of the 40 people on board.<\/p>\n
In 2006, 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.<\/p>\n
In 2018, U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Arabia\u2019s government, was killed by Saudi Arabian officials at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p>\n
In 2020, stricken by COVID-19, 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.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/p>\n
Film critic Rex Reed is 87.
\nSinger-songwriter Don McLean (\u201cAmerican Pie\u201d) is 80.
\nFashion designer Donna Karan (KA\u2019-ruhn) is 77.
\nActor Avery Brooks is 77.
\nPhotographer Annie Leibovitz is 76.
\nSinger-actor Sting is 74.
\nActor Lorraine Bracco is 71.
\nR&B singer Freddie Jackson is 69.
\nNobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa is 62.
\nSinger-songwriter Gillian Welch is 58.
\nActor-talk show host Kelly Ripa is 55.
\nActor Efren Ramirez is 52.
\nMusician Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes) is 37.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Thursday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2025. There are 90 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,4,51319,168,33805,51320],"class_list":{"0":"post-357465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-coloradorockies","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-october-2-history","14":"tag-rockies","15":"tag-today-in-history","16":"tag-vin-scully-last-broadcast"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115305681352551483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}