Today is Thursday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2003. There are 90 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2003. There are 90 days left in the year. On this date in 1967, Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; he is the first black appointed to the nation's highest court.
In 1780, British spy John Andre is hanged in Tappan, N.Y. In 1835, the first battle of the Texas Revolution takes place as American settlers defeat a Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe River. In 1890, comedian Groucho Marx is born in New York. In 1919, President Wilson suffers a stroke that leaves him partially paralyzed. In 1941, German armies begin Operation "Typhoon" -- an all-out drive against Moscow. In 1944, Nazi troops crush the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter-million people are killed. In 1950, the comic strip "Peanuts," created by Charles M. Schulz, is first published in nine newspapers. In 1958, the former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaims its independence. In 1985, actor Rock Hudson dies at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 59 after a battle with AIDS. In 1990, the Senate votes 90-to-9 to confirm the nomination of Judge David H. Souter to the Supreme Court.
October 2, 1978: The Kalsander, the former home of Mr. and Mrs. George D. Wick Jr. at 374 Boardman-Poland Road, has been stripped to a shell and that shell will soon fall under a wrecking ball to make way for construction of a $2 million health club. No Wick had lived in the mansion for years, and it had been converted into 14 apartments that were rented primarily to single professional men.
A pre-dawn two-alarm fire at the main building of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, heavily damages the sixth floor and inflicts some damage on lower floors. Arson is suspected.
Anthony M. Solomon, special White House adviser of foreign trade, speaking at a testimonial for U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney in Youngstown, says that despite claims to the contrary, steel "dumping" in the U.S. market by foreign producers is no longer a serious problem.
October 2, 1963: Two hooded gunmen rob the West Market Street Branch of the Union Savings and Trust Co. in Warren, escaping with $31,000.
A 2-year-old Austintown Township tot narrowly misses being crushed by a freight train near his home. Harold Davis, of Turner Road is knocked down by an Erie-Lackawanna freight train on tracks behind the boy's home.
James W. Ferguson of Youngstown is elected to head the 67,000 Royal Arch Masons in Ohio at a meeting of the grand chapter.
October 2, 1953: Hundreds of people are terrorized as 1,200 steel-jacketed bullets are fired into buildings and automobiles in Farrell, Pa., from the malfunctioning machine gun of a F84 Thunderjet from the Youngstown Air Base. The plane was flying at 5,000 feet above the city when the malfunction occurred. Damage is estimated as high as $100,000.
The Army recommends that national draft calls be raised to about 35,000 a month, beginning in January. Draft calls have been running at about 25,000 a month.
Youngstown is in its 100th day without a traffic fatality, a new safety record since autos came into widespread use.
October 2, 1928: Ruth Livermore, a 22-year-old former Bessemer, Pa., schoolteacher who helped her husband steal to get finery she loved, is sentenced to life in the Women's Reformatory at Marysville by Mahoning County Judge George Gessner. She pleaded guilty to aiding in the theft of $7,500 worth of jewels and furs from the home of John M. Mitchell on Raccoon Road. She is the first woman to be sentenced in Mahoning County on a charge of robbing an inhabited home at night.
Youngstown's population is 174,22, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates. The estimate does not include 12,000 residents of Scienceville added to the city's population through annexation.
Youngstown Police Chief James J. McNicholas is investigating the burning of a cross in Ridge Avenue near Market Street as part of the initiation ceremonies of the Knights of the Great Forest.