Good Morning Deplorables

It is Wednesday 8/9/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1974 Unusual succession makes Ford president

• American Revolution

• 1776 Guy Johnson predicts Indian allegiances

• Automotive

• 2000 Bridgestone/Firestone announces massive tire recall

• Civil War

• 1862 Rebels score narrow victory at the Battle of Cedar Mountain

• Cold War

• 1985 Arthur Walker found guilty of spying for Soviet Union

• Crime

• 1969 Manson cult kills five people
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• Disaster

• 1976 Hurricane Belle strikes Eastern Seaboard

• General Interest

• 1936 Owens wins 4th gold medal
• 2010 JetBlue flight attendant quits job via escape slide
• 378 Romans routed at Adrianople

• Hollywood

• 1969 Actress Sharon Tate found murdered

• Literary

• 1949 Mystery writer Jonathan Kellerman born

• Music

• 1995 Jerry Garcia dies

• Old West

• 1877 Nez Perce fight Battle of Big Hole

• Presidential

• 1974 Ford is inaugurated

• Sports

• 1988 The Great One gets traded

• Vietnam War

• 1967 Marines launch Operation Cochise
• 1974 Nixon leaves office

• World War I

• 1914 Walter Rathenau of AEG takes charge of German war production

• World War II

• 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki