Good Morning Deplorables

It is Friday 8/11/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1934 Federal prisoners land on Alcatraz

• American Revolution

• 1718 Sir Frederick Haldimand born

• Automotive

• 1973 “American Graffiti” released

• Civil War

• 1864 Confederate General Early abandons Winchester, Virginia

• Cold War

• 1984 Reagan jokes about “outlawing” the Soviet Union

• Crime

• 1980 Carol Bundy confesses her connection to the “Sunset Slayer”

• Disaster

• 1856 Hurricane submerges Louisiana resort
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• General Interest

• 1952 Hussein succeeds to Jordanian throne
• 1965 Watts Riot begins
• 1998 Jonesboro schoolyard shooters guilty

• Hollywood

• 1973 American Graffiti opens
• 2014 Oscar-winning actor Robin Williams dies at 63

• Literary

• 1921 Alex Haley’s birthday

• Music

• 1973 Hip Hop is born at a birthday party in the Bronx

• Old West

• 1806 Meriwether Lewis is shot in the leg

• Presidential

• 1984 Reagan jokes about bombing Russia

• Sports

• 1994 Major leaguers walk off the job

• Vietnam War

• 1967 U.S. pilots cleared to bomb Hanoi-Haiphong area
• 1970 South Vietnamese troops assume responsibility for guarding border
• 1972 Last U.S. ground combat unit departs South Vietnam

• World War I

• 1919 Weimar Constitution adopted in Germany

• World War II

• 1943 Germans begin to evacuate Sicily