Today In History: Tall Giants Protected

October 2. On this day in history, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited the construction site of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State. In 1950, Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip made its debut in nine newspapers. A major milestone came in 1967 when Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Just a year later, in 1968, Congress established Redwood National Park to protect Earth’s tallest trees. In 1982, the Portland Building—designed by Michael Graves and considered the first postmodern office tower—opened its doors in Oregon. Then in 2005, over 103,000 fans in Mexico City witnessed the NFL's first regular season game played outside the U.S., with the Cardinals defeating the 49ers. A year later in 2006, Katie Melua set a world record by performing the deepest underwater concert off Norway’s coast. In 2015, Google restructured and became part of its new parent company, Alphabet. And back in 2000, the number one song in America was Madonna’s “Music.”