Good Morning Deplorables

It is Monday 8/7/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1947 Wood raft makes 4,300-mile voyage

• American Revolution

• 1782 Washington creates the Purple Heart

• Automotive

• 1944 Volkswagen halts production during World War II

• Civil War

• 1836 Confederate General Evander Law is born

• Cold War

• 1964 Congress passes Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Crime

• 1945 Georgia institutes a State Board of Corrections

• Disaster

• 1956 Mysterious explosions in Colombia

• General Interest

• 1912 Teddy Roosevelt nominated as Bull Moose candidate
• 1959 U.S. satellite photographs earth
• 1998 U.S. embassies in East Africa bombed
• 2005 Trapped Russian sub rescued

• Hollywood

• 1975 Actress Charlize Theron born
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• Literary

• 1754 Henry Fielding leaves London for Lisbon

• Music

• 1997 A free concert by Garth Brooks draws the last “six-figure crowd” to New York City’s Central Park

• Old West

• 1869 Astronomer impresses Indians with eclipse

• Presidential

• 1990 Bush orders Operation Desert Shield

• Sports

• 1987 Lynne Cox swims into communist territory

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution is passed
• 1967 North Vietnam and People’s Republic of China sign aid agreement

• World War I

• 1914 Battle of Mulhouse begins

• World War II

• 1942 U.S. forces invade Guadalcanal