Good Morning Deplorables

It is Tuesday 8/15/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1969 The Woodstock festival opens in Bethel, New York

• American Revolution

• 1780 “Swamp Fox” routs loyalists while Gates’ men fall ill

• Automotive

• 1899 Henry Ford leaves Edison to start automobile company

• Civil War

• 1861 Anderson is named commander of Department of the Kentucky

• Cold War

• 1964 Khrushchev announces he is ready to begin arms talks

• Crime

• 2006 Wife of slain minister released from jail

• Disaster

• 1983 Hurricane Alicia pounds Texas coast
• 
  

• General Interest

• 1057 Malcolm slays Macbeth
• 1914 Panama Canal open to traffic
• 1947 India and Pakistan win independence
• 1961 Berlin Wall built

• Hollywood

• 1979 Apocalypse Now released

• Literary

• 1887 Edna Ferber, author of Show Boat, is born

• Old West

• 1812 Indian captive William Wells is killed

• Presidential

• 1930 Hoover looks to combat drought and economic depression

• Sports

• 1859 Charles Comiskey born

• Vietnam War

• 1968 Heavy fighting erupts in and around the DMZ
• 1969 Woodstock begins in upstate New York
• 1970 Regional Forces victorious
• 1971 North Vietnamese capture Vietnamese marine base

• World War I

• 1914 Japan gives ultimatum to Germany

• World War II

• 1945 The Japanese emperor speaks