Good Morning Deplorables

It is Saturday 7/22/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  2003 Jessica Lynch gets hero’s welcome

• American Revolution

• 1779 Battle of Minisink Ford, New York

• Automotive

• 2002 California governor signs new auto emissions legislation

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Atlanta continues

• Cold War

• 1987 Gorbachev accepts ban on intermediate-range nuclear missiles

• Crime

• 1923 Dillinger joins the Navy in an attempt to avoid prosecution
• 1991 Cannibal and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is caught

• Disaster

• 1993 Kaskaskia is inundated by flood of ’93

• General Interest

• 1916 The Preparedness Day bombing
• 1933 Wiley Post flies solo around the world
• 1934 Dillinger gunned down
• 2003 Qusay and Uday Hussein killed

• Hollywood

• 2005 March of the Penguins debuts

• Literary

• 1598 The Merchant of Venice is entered on the Stationers’ Register

• Music

• 1977 Elvis Costello’s debut album, My Aim Is True, is released

• Old West

• 1793 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean

• Presidential

• 1862 Lincoln tells his cabinet about Emancipation Proclamation

• Sports

• 1990 Greg LeMond wins second Tour De France

• Vietnam War

• 1967 Taylor and Clifford begin tour of the Pacific region
• 1968 North Vietnamese condemn Honolulu Conference

• World War I

• 1916 Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco

• World War II

• 1942 Deportations from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka begin