Good Morning Deplorables

It is Monday 8/21/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1959 Hawaii becomes 50th state

• American Revolution

• 1754 Bloody Ban Tarleton born in Britain

• Automotive

• 1897 Olds Motor Works founded

• Civil War

• 1863 Guerillas massacre residents of Lawrence, Kansas

• Cold War

• 1991 Coup attempt against Gorbachev collapses

• Crime

• 1863 Outlaws attack Lawrence, Kansas
• 1911 Theft of Mona Lisa is discovered
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• Disaster

• 1986 Gas cloud kills Cameroon villagers

• General Interest

• 1831 Slave revolt erupts in Virginia
• 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates begin
• 1961 Kenyatta freed

• Hollywood

• 1987 Dirty Dancing opens

• Literary

• 1920 Christopher Robin’s birthday

• Music

• 1935 The Swing Era begins with Benny Goodman’s triumphant Palomar Ballroom performance

• Old West

• 1883 Trial of Frank James begins in Missouri

• Presidential

• 1959 Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill

• Sports

• 2004 Michael Phelps wins eighth medal

• Vietnam War

• 1963 Nhu’s Special Forces attack the Buddhists
• 1965 U.S. pilots given green light to go after anti-aircraft missiles in the North
• 1969 Nixon meets with South Korean President
• 1971 Antiwar protestors raid draft offices

• World War I

• 1914 Battles of the Frontiers fought near Ardennes and Charleroi

• World War II

• 1944 The seeds of the United Nations are planted