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day, five people were shot dead, setting off a frantic manhunt lasting three weeks. (John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were finally arrested for 10 killings and three woundings; Muhammad was executed in 2009; Malvo was sentenced to life in prison.)
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• On this date:
• In 1780, British spy John Andre was hanged in Tappan, N.Y., 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 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.
• In 1944, Nazi troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people were killed.
• In 1950, the comic strip "Peanuts," created by Charles M. Schulz, was syndicated to seven newspapers.
• In 1958, the former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence.
• In 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn 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 1985, actor Rock Hudson died at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 59 after battling AIDS.
• 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.
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• Ten years ago: The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled unanimously the Democratic Party could replace Sen. Robert Torricelli (tohr-ih-SEL'-ee) on the November ballot with former Sen. Frank Lautenberg.
• Five years ago: Blackwater chairman Erik Prince, testifying before the House

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