YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2015. There are 90 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1780: British spy John Andre is hanged in Tappan, N.Y., during the Revolutionary War.

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.

1890: Comedian Groucho Marx is born Julius Marx in New York.

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

1939: The Benny Goodman Sextet (which included Lionel Hampton) makes its first recording, “Flying Home,” for Columbia Records.

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

1955: The suspense anthology “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” premieres on CBS-TV.

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

1975: President Gerald R. Ford formally welcomes Japan’s Emperor Hirohito to the U.S. during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House.

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

1990: The Senate votes 90-9 to confirm the nomination of Judge David H. Souter to the Supreme Court.

2002: The Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks begin, setting off a frantic manhunt lasting three weeks. (John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were finally arrested and charged with 10 killings and three woundings; Muhammad was executed in 2009; Malvo was sentenced to life in prison.)

2009: The International Olympic Committee, meeting in Copenhagen, chooses Rio de Janeiro to be the site of the 2016 Summer Olympics; Chicago was eliminated in the first round, despite a last-minute in-person appeal by President Barack Obama.

2014: Actor-comedian Nipsey Russell dies in New York at age 87.

2010: A coalition of progressive and civil-rights groups marches by the thousands on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., pledging to support Democrats struggling to keep power on Capitol Hill.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Fowler Landfill Inc. owner Frank Kish voluntarily closes Trumbull county’s only solid-waste dump site to all haulers after the state complains that garbage has been piled too high.

Dr. Colin Campbell is named president of the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine.

A Youngstown chapter of GASP (Group Against Smoke Pollution) has been organized and is asking local governments to regulate or prohibit smoking in public places.

1975: By a 5-2 vote, Youngstown City Council gives first reading to an ordinance permitting the controlling board to grant a franchise for the construction and operation of a cable TV system in the city.

About 25 Rayen School youths burst into Benita Drugs at 2002 Elm St. and, in the words of a cashier, “began to steal everything in sight.”

Mayor Jack C. Hunter says he will reappeal to the Ohio Supreme Court the right of Youngstown to have a residency requirement for its employees, and, if that fails, he will take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

1965: Dr. Marvin O. Looney, 37-year-old academic dean of Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek, Mich., is chosen educational director of Mahoning County Community College.

Pete Gulgin’s Boardman High School cross country team makes it 17 victories in a row by defeating Liberty. Roger Kreps and teammate Tom Cook come in first and second.

Two McKay Machine employees, Dale Shively and Joseph Kraly, complete a second-level course at Wittenberg University in management development.

1940: More than 1,000 volunteer registrars will help register Mahoning County male citizens between age 21 and 35 in anticipation of military conscription.

Youngstown Municipal Judge Harry C. Hoffman fines a Youngstown numbers writer $25, but warns him if he appears before the judge on gambling charges again, he will be fined $500.

Ohio librarians and library trustees will meet in Youngstown in October for the combined annual conferences of the Ohio Library Association, the Ohio Library Trustees Association, Ohio Association of Hospital Librarians and the Ohio Chapter of Special Libraries Association.