YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 2

Today is Monday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2017. 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.

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, during which a quarter of a million people had been killed.

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

1959: Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” debuts on CBS-TV with the episode “Where Is Everybody?” starring Earl Holliman.

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

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

2002: The Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks begin.

2012: On the eve of the first presidential debate of the 2012 campaign, Vice President Joe Biden says the middle class has been “buried” during the last four years, a statement Republicans immediately seize upon as an unwitting indictment of the Obama administration.

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1992: Youngstown Councilman David L. Engler D-5th, is accusing Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro of dragging his feet on endorsing the Akzo Salt Co.’s proposed North Jackson salt plant, which Engler says could endanger the $350 million plant.

About 60 people are expected to attend a convention of shipmates from the USS Calvert being held at the Park Hotel in downtown Warren. The reunion marks the 50th anniversary of the commission of the World War II ship.

U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Youngstown approves Phar-Mor’s plan to close 63 stores that are costing the company as much as $1 million a week in losses. An additional 27 stores are being eyed for closing.

1977: A delegation from the Mahoning Valley will go to Tokyo to discuss with Japanese businessmen the possibility of Japanese interests acquiring the Campbell Works of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.

Jerome F. McNally, executive director of the Downtown Board of Trade and the Federal Plaza Committee, says cutbacks by Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. may hurt some merchants, but the downtown will not wilt and die.

Dr. Howard Jones, chairman of the Youngstown Education Foundation and former president of Youngstown University, says that Youngstown State University is the area’s biggest asset and will help ease the impact of the steel crisis.

1967: Local and state officials are trying to determine the cause of a raging fire that destroyed the Mahoning Country Club on Liberty Street in Girard. Damage is estimated at $200,000.

David L. Entrikin of Youngstown is on a wheat-growing experiment project in Afghanistan as a Peace Corps volunteer.

1942: Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Peter Mulholland “fixed” 201 parking tickets in September, bringing the yearly number to 2,467. He makes good on his threat to “sock” speeders by suspending for 90 days the license of a West Indianola Avenue man arrested on a charge of driving 50 mph on Market Street.

Boardman Fire Chief Merle Gifford is elected secretary of the Ohio State Firemen’s Association at the annual meeting in Columbus.