Good Morning Deplorables

It is Friday 8/18/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1991 Soviet hard-liners launch coup against Gorbachev

• American Revolution

• 1780 British win at Fishing Creek, lose at Musgrove’s Mill

• Automotive

• 1940 Walter P. Chrysler dies

• Civil War

• 1864 Union attacks railroad at Globe Tavern

• Cold War

• 1991 Coup attempt against Gorbachev begins

• Crime

• 1988 A Seattle judge involved in a sex scandal commits suicide

• Disaster

• 1931 Yangtze River peaks in China
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• General Interest

• 1227 Genghis Khan dies
• 1590 Roanoke Colony deserted
• 1920 Woman suffrage amendment ratified
• 1963 Meredith graduates from Ole Miss

• Hollywood

• 1933 Director Roman Polanski born

• Literary

• 1958 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is published

• Music

• 1979 Chic’s “Good Times” hits #1 on the U.S. pop charts

• Old West

• 1853 Cyrus Skinner released from San Quentin

• Presidential

• 1795 George Washington signs Jay Treaty with Britain

• Sports

• 1992 Larry Bird hangs it up

• Vietnam War

• 1965 Marines launch Operation Starlite
• 1966 Australians defeat VC at Long Tan
• 1968 Communists launch new offensive
• 1971 Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw troops from Vietnam

• World War I

• 1917 Italians launch the 11th Battle of the Isonzo

• World War II

• 1941 Hitler suspends euthanasia program