Good Morning Deplorables

It is Friday 8/25/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1835 The Great Moon Hoax

• American Revolution

• 1776 David Hume dies

• Automotive

• 1991 Michael Schumacher makes Formula One debut

• Civil War

• 1864 Rebels attack at the Second Battle of Ream’s Station

• Cold War

• 1985 Samantha Smith dies in plane crash

• Crime

• 1984 In Cold Blood author dies
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• Disaster

• 1979 Hurricane David is born

• General Interest

• 1875 Englishman swims the Channel
• 1944 Paris liberated
• 2009 Ted Kennedy, “liberal lion of the Senate,” dies at 77
• 325 Council of Nicaea concludes

• Hollywood

• 1939 The Wizard of Oz debuts

• Literary

• 1949 Novelist Martin Amis is born

• Music

• 1962 Little Eva earns a #1 hit with “Loco-Motion”

• Old West

• 1896 Outlaw Bill Doolin is killed

• Presidential

• 1950 Truman orders army to seize control of railroads

• Sports

• 1985 Gooden becomes youngest 20-game winner in history

• Vietnam War

• 1967 McNamara concedes that bombing is less than effective
• 1971 173rd Airborne Brigade departs Vietnam

• World War I

• 1914 Germans burn Belgian town of Louvain

• World War II

• 1944 Liberation of Paris
• 1945 The first casualty of the Cold War