Good Morning Deplorables

It is Thursday 7/20/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1969 Armstrong walks on moon

• American Revolution

• 1780 Mad Anthony Wayne loses to Loyalists in New Jersey

• Automotive

• 1972 U.S. government study disputes Nader’s charges against Corvair

• Civil War

• 1864 Confederates attack at the Battle of Peachtree Creek

• Cold War

• 1948 Truman issues peacetime draft
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• Crime

• 1984 A serial-killing couple is apprehended
• 2012 12 people killed, 70 wounded in Colorado movie theater shooting

• Disaster

• 1977 Second great flood hits Johnstown

• General Interest

• 1881 Sitting Bull surrenders
• 1951 King of Jordan assassinated
• 1976 Viking 1 lands on Mars

• Hollywood

• 1973 Bruce Lee dies at age 32

• Literary

• 1933 Acclaimed author Cormac McCarthy is born

• Music

• 1963 Jan and Dean’s “Surf City” hits #1

• Old West

• 1889 Homesteaders murdered by Wyoming ranchers

• Presidential

• 1969 Nixon watches first lunar landing

• Sports

• 1919 Sir Edmund Hillary born

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Viet Cong troops overrun town
• 1969 Duck Hook plan completed

• World War I

• 1914 Caillaux trial begins in Paris

• World War II

• 1944 Assassination plot against Hitler fails