Good Morning Deplorables

It is Monday 8/14/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  2003 Blackout hits Northeast United States

• American Revolution

• 1776 Stamp Act remembered

• Automotive

• 1998 Hundred-year-old Michelin Man makes appearance in Monterey

• Civil War

• 1862 Confederate invasion of Kentucky begins

• Cold War

• 1980 Massive labor strikes hit Poland

• Crime

• 1751 A daughter poisons her father
• 1994 The terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal is captured
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• Disaster

• 1933 Logging accident sparks forest fire in Oregon Coast Range

• General Interest

• 1784 Russians settle Alaska
• 1900 Peking relieved by multinational force

• Hollywood

• 1945 Steve Martin born

• Literary

• 1834 Richard Henry Dana sets sail from Boston Harbor

• Music

• 1985 Michael Jackson takes control of the Beatles’ publishing rights

• Old West

• 1831 Montana “Vigilante X” is born

• Presidential

• 1935 FDR signs Social Security Act

• Sports

• 1971 Pitching ace throws first no-hitter

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Hanoi prepares for more air attacks
• 1965 Seventh Marines land at Chu Lai
• 1972 Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark reports on his tour of North Vietnam
• 1973 U.S. bombing of Cambodia ceases

• World War I

• 1917 China declares war on Germany

• World War II

• 1945 Japan’s surrender made public