Today is Friday, October 2, the 275th day of 2015. 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. In 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. In 1890, comedian Groucho Marx was born Julius Marx in New York. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a serious stroke at the White House that left him paralyzed on his left side. In 1939, the Benny Goodman Sextet (which included Lionel Hampton) made their first recording, “Flying Home,” for Columbia. In 1944, German troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people had been killed. In 1955, the suspense anthology “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” premiered on CBS-TV. In 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court as the court opened its new term. In 1975, President Gerald R. Ford formally welcomed Japan’s Emperor Hirohito to the United States during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House. In 1990, the Senate voted 90-9 to confirm the nomination of Judge David H. Souter to the Supreme Court.