Years Ago

October 2, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2010. There are 90 days left in the year.

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1835: The first battle of the Texas Revolution takes place as American settlers fight Mexican soldiers near the Guadalupe River; the Mexicans end up withdrawing.

1919: President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke at the White House that leaves him paralyzed on his left side.

1944: Nazi troops crush the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people are killed.

1950: The comic strip “Peanuts,” created by Charles M. Schulz, is syndicated to seven newspapers.

1967: Thurgood Marshall is sworn as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court as the court opens its term.

1970: One of two chartered twin-engine planes flying the Wichita State University football team to Utah crashes into a mountain near Silver Plume, Colo., killing 31 of the 40 people on board.

1985: Actor Rock Hudson dies at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 59 after battling AIDS.

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1985: The Department of Housing and Urban Development distributes $9 million once set aside for the proposed Ronneburg Brewery in North Jackson to 12 other U.S. cities.

Floretta Dukes McKenzie, superintendent of public schools in the District of Columbia, will open Youngstown State University’s Special Lecture Series.

1970: The FBI cracks down on interstate gambling between New Castle, Pa., and Youngstown, striking 25 locations and serving 43 search warrants.

Mahoning County food stamp Director Ray Wanecek says he expects to process about 300 food stamp applications a day from striking General Motors employees.

1960: Harry Janke, a guard on Rayen School’s football team, hadn’t seen a football until four years ago when he arrived from Germany, where he played sandlot soccer. His school’s only organized sport was gymnastics.

The introduction of the 1961 model cars portends a boon to Youngstown industry because 30 to 40 percent of the district’s steel output goes to auto producers.

1935: Tom M. Girdler, president of Republic Steel Corp., announces that the company will move all its general offices to Cleveland, meaning about 300 of the highest paid company employees among the 13,000 Republic workers in the Mahoning Valley will be moving there.

City Law Director U.F. Kistler tells city council that a suggested ordinance establishing a licensing fee of $5,000 on slot machines would be found unconstitutional.

A rise in the price of men’s clothing during the coming season is predicted by William P. Junglas, vice president of the Richman Bros. Co. of Cleveland, who visited Youngstown to open the company’s newly remodeled store at 107 W. Federal St.