Good Morning Deplorables
It is Thursday 8/10/2017
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Lead Story
- 1846 Smithsonian Institution created
American Revolution
- 1776 London learns of American independence
Automotive
- 1978 Fatal Ford Pinto crash in Indiana
Civil War
- 1861 Rebels defeat Union force at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek
Cold War
- 1949 Truman signs National Security Bill
Crime
- 1981 Child found decapitated
Disaster
- 1993 Three-ship collision causes oil spill
General Interest
- 1793 Louvre Museum opens
- 1821 New state west of the Mississippi
- 1977 Son of Sam arrested
- 2003 Temperatures in UK top 100 F for first time during European heat wave
Hollywood
- 1984 Red Dawn, first PG-13 movie, is released
Literary
- 1912 Virginia and Leonard Woolf marry
Music
- 1937 First-ever electric guitar patent awarded to the Electro String Corporation
Old West
- 1877 Amanda McFarland begins Alaskan mission
Presidential
- 1874 Herbert Hoover is born
Sports
- 1981 Pete Rose sets National League hits record
Vietnam War
- 1955 Diem refuses to negotiate with Communists
- 1966 Marines fight bitter battle in Quang Tin Province
- 1972 North Vietnamese forces attempt to cut off Saigon
World War I
- 1914 German ships Goeben and Breslau reach Constantinople
World War II
- 1945 Japan accepts Potsdam terms, agrees to unconditional surrender
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