1967In Washington, the Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the US Supreme Court. Years later, Marshall tells students at his alma mater Howard University not to rest upon past civil rights achievements. “You can't stand still. You must move, and if you don't move, they will run over you.”

1983Guion Bluford, Junior becomes the first black astronaut in space, blasting off aboard Space Shuttle Challenger.

1797Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the novelist who created the horror story Frankenstein, is born in London.

1905Baseball's Ty Cobb makes his major league debut with the Detroit Tigers. He hits a double in his first at-bat in a game against the New York Highlanders. The Tigers win, 5:3.

And 1993"if you are thinking about all i really did was to take the summer off."Completing his move from NBC, talk show host David Letterman debuts on CBS with his late show.

Today in History, August 30th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.