Good Morning Deplorables

It is Wednesday 7/19/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1799 Rosetta Stone found

• American Revolution

• 1779 Massachusetts begins ill-fated Penobscot expedition

• Automotive

• 1942 George Washington Carver begins experimental project with Henry Ford

• Civil War

• 1863 Morgan’s raiders defeated at Buffington Island

• Cold War

• 1956 United States withdraws offer of aid for Aswan Dam
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• Crime

• 1991 Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant

• Disaster

• 1979 Oil tankers collide in Caribbean Sea

• General Interest

• 1553 Lady Jane Grey deposed
• 1848 Seneca Falls Convention begins

• Hollywood

• 1989 Sitcom actress murdered; death prompts anti-stalking legislation

• Literary

• 1898 Emile Zola flees France
• 2009 “Angela’s Ashes” author Frank McCourt dies

• Music

• 2003 Thousands of fans join the Miami funeral procession of Celia Cruz

• Old West

• 1879 Doc Holliday kills for the first time

• Presidential

• 1884 President Arthur proclaims power to impose quarantine on immigrants

• Sports

• 1992 Nick Faldo wins third British Open

• Vietnam War

• 1964 President Khanh calls for expanding the war
• 1972 Peace talks resume

• World War I

• 1919 Cenotaph is unveiled in London

• World War II

• 1943 America bombs Rome