Good Morning Deplorables

It is Saturday 8/5/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  2002 Divers recover U.S.S. Monitor turret

• American Revolution

• 1779 DeLancey and Hull battle for the Bronx

• Automotive

• 1914 First electric traffic signal installed

• Civil War

• 1864 Union scores a victory at the Battle of Mobile Bay

• Cold War

• 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
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• Crime

• 1998 Mother charged with smothering her eight children

• Disaster

• 1948 Earthquake causes deadly landslides in Ecuador

• General Interest

• 1858 First transatlantic telegraph cable completed
• 1962 Marilyn Monroe is found dead
• 1981 Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers

• Hollywood

• 1983 Risky Business debuts, launches Cruise to stardom

• Literary

• 1850 Guy de Maupassant’s birthday

• Music

• 1957 American Bandstand goes national

• Old West

• 1953 Texas Ranger Ira Aten dies

• Presidential

• 1861 Lincoln imposes first federal income tax

• Sports

• 1976 NBA merges with ABA

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Navy flies retaliatory strikes against North Vietnam
• 1974 Congress cuts military aid to South Vietnam

• World War I

• 1914 German assault on Liege begins first battle of World War I

• World War II

• 1944 Hundreds of Jews are freed from forced labor in Warsaw