TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Monday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2017. There are 90 days left in the year.

On this date in:

1780: British spy John Andre was hanged in Tappan, New York, during the Revolutionary War.

1835: The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers fought Mexican soldiers near the Guadalupe River; the Mexicans ended up withdrawing.

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

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

1941: During World War II, German armies launched an all-out drive against Moscow; Soviet forces succeeded in holding onto their capital.

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

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

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

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