Good Morning Deplorables

It is Saturday 8/19/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1909 First race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

• American Revolution

• 1779 Americans raid Paulus Hook, New Jersey

• Automotive

• 1909 Louis Schwitzer wins first race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

• Civil War

• 1862 Dakota Indians bypass Fort Ridgely

• Cold War

• 1953 CIA-assisted coup overthrows government of Iran

• Crime

• 1991 A Jewish youth is killed by a mob
• 2011 “West Memphis Three” released from prison after 18 years
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• Disaster

• 1980 Fire on Saudi jet kills 301

• General Interest

• 1812 Old Ironsides earns its name
• 1942 Allies raid Dieppe
• 1960 Captured U.S. spy pilot sentenced in Russia

• Hollywood

• 1993 Basinger and Baldwin marry

• Literary

• 1886 Joseph Conrad becomes a British citizen

• Music

• 1964 The Beatles kick off first U.S. tour at San Francisco’s Cow Palace

• Old West

• 1895 John Wesley Hardin killed in Texas

• Presidential

• 1946 Bill Clinton born

• Sports

• 1951 Little person makes big league debut

• Vietnam War

• 1968 Many Americans against a bombing halt
• 1970 Cambodia and U.S. sign military aid pact
• 1972 Democratic candidate McGovern attacks Nixon policy in Vietnam

• World War I

• 1919 President Wilson appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

• World War II

• 1934 Adolf Hitler becomes president of Germany