Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1780

British spy John Andre was hanged in Tappan, N.Y. by the Continental Army.

1835

The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers of Gonzales defeated a Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe River.

1919

President Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.

1941

German armies began Operation Typhoon - an all-out drive against Moscow.

1944

Nazi troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which 250,000 people were killed.

1950

The comic strip ''Peanuts,'' created by Charles M. Schulz, was first published in nine newspapers.

1958

The former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence.

1967

Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; he was the first African-American appointed to the nation's highest court.

1990

The Senate voted 90-9 to confirm the nomination of Judge David H. Souter to the Supreme Court.

1996

Mark Fuhrman was given three years' probation and fined $200 after pleading no contest to perjury for denying at O.J. Simpson's criminal trial that he had used a certain racial slur in the past decade.

1869

Political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India.

1890

Comedian Groucho Marx was born in New York.

1985

Actor Rock Hudson died at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 59 after a battle with AIDS.

1998

Gene Autry, Hollywood's original singing cowboy and former owner of the Anaheim Angels baseball team, died at age 91.