Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2011. 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.

1961: The medical drama “Ben Casey,” starring Vince Edwards and Sam Jaffe, premieres on ABC.

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

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1986: The Poling & Bacon Construction Co. at 10400 South Ave. receives a $6.1 million contract to produce a jet fuel storage system at the Stewart Air National Guard base in Newburgh, N.Y.

Gov. Richard F. Celeste joins a host of state and local officials in ground breaking for the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor across from St. Columba Cathedral.

A two-year-old Brookfield girl is in guarded condition in Sharon General Hospital with injuries suffered in an attack by her grandmother’s pit bull.

1971: The A&P Co., major food supermarket firm, will close its Youngstown warehouse at Albert Street and Hubbard Road, affecting about 100 employees at the warehouse and others at Keystone Transportation Co., which handles local hauling.

The Ohio Public Expenditure Council compiles figures showing the value of tax exempt property in Youngstown totals $61.6 million, an amount equal to 18 percent of the city’s tax duplicate.

A new Zayre department store opens in the Boardman Plaza.

1961: The Blue Crystal night club at 560 E. Liberty St. in Girard is destroyed by fire. Owner Sam Parillo estimates the loss at $100,000.

Liberty School Superintendent E.J. Blott announces plans to retire at the end of the school year when he appears at dedication ceremonies for a new Liberty elementary school bearing his name.

1936: Business in the Youngstown district was good in September and promises to be better in October as records are set in new auto and truck sales and power production. Retail sales and steel output are up.

Al Smith, the 1928 Democratic standard bearer, severs his lifelong ties to the Democratic Party and announces his endorsement of Alf Landon, the Republican governor of Kansas who is challenging President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Campbell Memorial High School students end their four-day strike with most of the 1,000 students returning to class. The Board of Education will address the students’ demand for reinstatement of high school English teacher Michael E. Graban.

The city law department is working on a compromise law that would allow fireworks in the city, but would limit the size of bombs to three inches and would not allow displays after 10 p.m.