YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 2

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2018. 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.

1944: German troops crush the 2-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.

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

1971: The music program “Soul Train” debuts on TV.

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

1986: The Senate joins the House in voting to override President Reagan’s veto of stiff economic sanctions against South Africa.

2002: The Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks begin, setting off a frantic manhunt lasting three weeks.

2006: An armed milk-truck driver takes a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five of them and wounding five others before committing suicide.

2017:: Hours after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, President Donald Trump condemns the Las Vegas shooting that left 58 dead as an “act of pure evil.”

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: Marathon negotiations are launched after all-night talks with U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. aimed at ending Youngstown’s 25-day teachers’ strike.

Eighteen mall operators affiliated with the Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. claim they have suffered more than $18.8 million in damages from Phar-Mor Inc.’s fraud and filing for bankruptcy.

Richard C. Baringer, Howland schools superintendent, is named to the Buckeye Association of School Administrators Instructional Leadership Committee.

1978: Speaking at a campaign fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney of Youngstown, Anthony M. Solomon, special White House adviser on foreign trade, says the Carter administration has cracked down on steel dumping in the United States.

The arson squad is investigating a two-alarm predawn fire at the main building of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County at Wick and Rayen avenues. The fire was discovered by custodian William Heck when he arrived at 5:45 a.m.

Struthers police conduct their largest drug raid ever, confiscating $10,500 in marijuana and nine guns from a house at 59 Terrace St., across from City Hall and the police station. A 42-year-old former steelworker was arrested.

1968: Youngstown Public School Superintendent Woodrow W. Zinser before a group of 100 at St. John’s Episcopal Church calls for a more equitable sharing of the school tax burden by federal and state government.

Joseph Mancina, 34, a repairman for U.S. Steel Corp., is seriously wounded when shot by an assailant in the living room of his home.

Efforts by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees to organize the Boardman Police Department collapse after withdrawal of signed application cards by nine of 12 policemen.

1943: Three district men are reported killed in action in the African Siciliian theater: Pfc. Stephen Kuko Jr. of Kinsman, Pvt. Charles S. McBride of Painesville and Corp. Ted T. Mikolajczyk of Erie, Pa.

The 10th case of infantile paralysis is reported in Youngstown. Elena George, 2, is being treated at the hospital by the Kenny hot-pack method.

The most extensive religious survey of its kind ever attempted in Youngstown will get underway when 1,500 teams begin to make 50,000 house-to-house calls to determine the religious affiliation of all Youngstowners.