Today in History: October 4

Today in History
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 4, the 278th day of 2016. There are 88 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Oct. 4, 1976, Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz resigned in the wake of a controversy over an obscene joke he’d made that was derogatory to blacks.
On this date:
In 1777, Gen. George Washington’s troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Pennsylvania, resulting in heavy American casualties.
In 1822, the 19th president of the Unit