Today is Sunday, Oct. 2, the 276th day of 2016

Today is Sunday, Oct. 2, the 276th day of 2016. There are 90 days left in the year.

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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.

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

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

1950: The ‘‘Peanuts” comic by Charles M. Schulz is first published.

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

1959: Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” makes its debut on CBS-TV.

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

1996: An AeroPeru Boeing 757 crashes into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 61 passengers and nine crew members on board.

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 for 10 killings and three woundings; Muhammad was executed in 2009; Malvo was sentenced to life in prison.)

2006: Charles Carl Roberts IV, a milk truck driver, takes a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., fatally shooting five of them before committing suicide.

2015: U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announces his resignation, which President Obama reluctantly accepts.

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1991: Willie “Flip” Williams is charged as the triggerman in the execution- style slaying of four East Side men: Alfonda Madison, Eric Howard, William Dent and Theodore Wynn.

The Route 422 Business Association offers the Niles Police Department rent-free space to establish a police substation on “The Strip.”

General assistance benefits in Ohio, which had been averaging $125 a month for 144,000 recipients, will be capped at $100 under a new state law.

1976: Youngstown Patrolmen Paul Durkin, Patrick Armstrong and Robert Wayland are charged with obstructing official business and intimidating a police officer stemming from an incident when they were run over by a cruiser driven by fellow officer Ernest Paul Sr. through a picket line. Paul, who had been charged with felonious assault, filed the countercharges against the three officers he struck.

Mahoning and Trumbull counties are preparing immunization clinics to provide swine flu shots.

Robert T. Majcherek is inducted as the new president of the Poland Kiwanis Club. Other officers are William Bradfield, Clarence Goterba, Donald Park and Paul Bryant.

1966: If Congress approves and President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a $4.1 million public works appropriation bill, $500,000 will be provided for the Lake Erie-Ohio River waterway and $1 million for Crab Creek flood control.

The new L.A. Beeghly Library at Ohio Weslyan University, named for the Youngstown industrialist and philanthropist, will be dedicated Oct. 21. Beeghly donated half the cost of the $2 million structure.

Birth statistics over five years show the effect of “the pill” in Lawrence County, Pa., with a decrease in births at Jameson Hospital and Mary Evans Maternity Hospital, while they have increased at St. Francis Hospital, which is operated by Sisters of St. Francis.

1941: Two hold-up men armed with sawed-off shotguns walk into a bookie joint in East Commerce Street and escape with $2,000.

News facilities of radio station WFMJ improved when the station began using the complete news report of the Associated Press.

Youngstown City Council plans to hold a secret informal meeting to choose a successor to former Second Ward City Councilman John J. DelBene.

As part of the national defense program, the Red Cross and the YMCA plan to begin a nursing class conducted by the Health Education Department at the YMCA.