TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS TUESDAY, OCT. 2, the 275th day of 2018. There are 90 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1944, German troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people had been killed.
In 1780, British spy John Andre was hanged in Tappan, N.Y., during the Revolutionary War.
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a serious stroke at the White House that left him paralyzed on his left side.
In 1941, during World War II, German armies launched an all-out drive against Moscow; Soviet forces succeeded in holding onto their capital.
In 1950, the comic strip “Peanuts,” created by Charles M. Schulz, was syndicated to seven newspapers.
In 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court as the court opened its new term.
In 1970, one of two chartered twin-engine planes flying the Wichita State University football team to Utah crashed into a mountain near Silver Plume, Colo., killing 31 of the 40 people on board.
In 1971, the music program “Soul Train” made its debut in national syndication.
In 1984, Richard W. Miller became the first FBI agent to be arrested and charged with espionage. (Miller was tried three times; he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but was released after nine years.)
In 1985, actor Rock Hudson, 59, died at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., after battling AIDS.
In 1986, the Senate joined the House in voting to override President Reagan’s veto of stiff economic sanctions against South Africa. In 2002, the Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks began, setting off a frantic manhunt lasting three weeks. (John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were finally arrested for killing 10 people and wounding three others; Muhammad was executed in 2009; Malvo was sentenced to life in prison.)
In 2006, an armed milk truck driver took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five of them and wounding five others before committing suicide.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Country singermusician Leon Rausch (Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys) is 91. Retired MLB All-Star Maury Wills is 86. Movie critic Rex Reed is 80. Singer-songwriter Don McLean is 73. Cajun/country singer Jo-el Sonnier is 72. Actor Avery Brooks and fashion designer Donna Karan are 70. Photographer Annie Leibovitz is 69. Rock musician Mike Rutherford (Genesis, Mike & the Mechanics) is 68. Singer-actor Sting is 67. Actress Lorraine Bracco and country musician Greg Jennings (Restless Heart) are 64. Rock singer Phil Oakey (The Human League) is 63. Rhythm-and-blues singer Freddie Jackson is 62. Singerproducer Robbie Nevil is 60. Retro-soul singer James Hunter and former NFL quarterback Mark Rypien are 56. Rock musician Bud Gaugh (Sublime, Eyes Adrift) and folk-country singer Gillian Welch are 51. Country singer Kelly Willis and actor Joey Slotnick are 50. Rhythmand-blues singer Dion Allen (Az Yet) and actress-talk show host Kelly Ripa (TV: “Live with Kelly and Ryan”) are 48. Singer Tiffany is 47. Rock singer Lene Nystrom, actor Efren Ramirez and rhythm-andblues singer LaTocha Scott (Xscape) are 45. Gospel singer Mandisa (TV: “American Idol”) is 42. Actress Brianna Brown is 39. Rock musician Mike Rodden (Hinder) is 36. Tennis player Marion Bartoli is 34. Actor Christopher Larkin is 31. Rock singer Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes) is 30. Actress Samantha Barks is 28. Actress Elizabeth McLaughlin is 25.