Good Morning Deplorables

It is Friday 8/4/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1944 Anne Frank captured

• American Revolution

• 1792 British General John Burgoyne dies

• Automotive

• 2006 “Talladega Nights” released

• Civil War

• 1864 Union generals squabble outside of Atlanta

• Cold War

• 1953 Eisenhower warns of “ominous” situation in Asia

• Crime

• 1892 Lizzie Borden took an axe…
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• Disaster

• 1972 Philippines hit hard by flooding

• General Interest

• 1753 Washington becomes Master Mason
• 1892 Borden parents found dead
• 1964 Slain civil rights workers found

• Hollywood

• 1989 Sex, lies and videotape opens

• Literary

• 1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet, is born

• Music

• 1927 Country legend Jimmie Rodgers is recorded for the very first time

• Old West

• 1873 Custer and 7th Cavalry attacked by Indians

• Presidential

• 1753 Washington receives highest Freemason rank

• Sports

• 1936 Jesse Owens wins long jump–and respect–in Germany
• 2012 Oscar Pistorius becomes the first amputee runner to compete at the Olympics

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Reported North Vietnamese PT boat attacks result in retaliation strikes
• 1967 Court upholds court-martial conviction of officer who participated in demonstration
• 1969 Secret negotiations are initiated in Paris

• World War I

• 1914 U.S. proclaims neutrality in World War I

• World War II

• 1944 Anne Frank and her family arrested by Gestapo