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On Aug. 30, 1967, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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In 1905, baseball great Ty Cobb made his major league debut for the Detroit Tigers.
In 1916, on his fourth attempt, explorer Ernest Shackelton successfully returned to Elephant Island in Antarctica to rescue 22 of his stranded crew members, who had survived on the barren island for four and a half months after the sinking of their ship, the Endurance.
In 1941, during World War II, German forces approaching Leningrad cut off the remaining rail line out of the city.
