Good Morning Deplorables

It is Saturday 7/29/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1958 NASA created

• American Revolution

• 1778 French navy contacts Continentals

• Automotive

• 1909 General Motors buys Cadillac

• Civil War

• 1862 Confederate spy Belle Boyd is captured

• Cold War

• 1958 NASA established
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• Crime

• 1976 Son of Sam terrorizes New York

• Disaster

• 1967 Rocket causes deadly fire on aircraft carrier

• General Interest

• 1588 Spanish Armada defeated
• 1848 Tipperary Revolt ends in failure
• 1900 Italian American assassinates Italian king
• 1981 Prince Charles marries Lady Diana

• Hollywood

• 2000 Hollywood golden couple weds

• Literary

• 1965 Chang-Rae Lee’s birthday

• Music

• 1967 The Doors score their first #1 hit with “Light My Fire”

• Old West

• 1776 Escalante and Dominguez begin expedition

• Presidential

• 1958 President Eisenhower authorizes creation of NASA

• Sports

• 1996 Carl Lewis wins fourth consecutive long jump at 35

• Vietnam War

• 1965 101st Airborne Division arrives in Vietnam
• 1967 Fire ravages U.S. carrier off Vietnam
• 1972 Former U.S. Attorney General visits North Vietnam

• World War I

• 1914 Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and Czar Nicholas of Russia exchange telegrams

• World War II

• 1945 Japanese sink the USS Indianapolis