Chief Justice Earl Warren swore in Thurgood Marshall, the first
Black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. As chief counsel for
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People in the 1940s and ’50s.

Marshall was the architect and executor of the legal strategy
that ended the era of official racial segregation.

Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall
(July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993)

Charles M. Schultz’s “Peanuts” comic strip debuted in just seven
US newspapers. (It would eventually run in more than 2,600.)

The cartoonist almost named Charlie Brown’s dog Sniffy—
not Snoopy—but another comic dog had that name.

Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz
(November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000)