Good Morning Deplorables

It is Wednesday 7/26/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1775 U.S. postal system established

• American Revolution

• 1775 Congress establishes U.S. Post Office

• Automotive

• 1998 Three race fans killed at Michigan Speedway

• Civil War

• 1863 Confederate leader John Hunt Morgan is captured

• Cold War

• 1947 Truman signs the National Security Act

• Crime

• 1984 Real-life Psycho Ed Gein dies
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• Disaster

• 1931 Grasshoppers bring ruin to Midwest

• General Interest

• 1847 Liberian independence proclaimed
• 1908 FBI founded
• 1945 Winston Churchill resigns
• 1956 Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal

• Hollywood

• 1943 Entertainer Mick Jagger born

• Literary

• 1942 William Faulkner begins a screenwriting stint

• Music

• 1975 Van McCoy’s “The Hustle” is the #1 song in America

• Old West

• 1878 Officer Wyatt Earp fatally wounds cowboy

• Presidential

• 1797 John Quincy Adams marries Louisa Johnson

• Sports

• 1952 Bob Mathias wins second Olympic decathlon

• Vietnam War

• 1968 South Vietnamese opposition leader tried and sentenced
• 1972 South Vietnamese troops raise flag over Quang Tri

• World War I

• 1916 Australians battle Germans at Pozieres

• World War II

• 1941 United States freezes Japanese assets