Good Morning Deplorables

It is Saturday 8/26/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1939 First televised Major League baseball game

• American Revolution

• 1776 Washington urges Hessians to desert

• Automotive

• 1959 Mini makes its debut

• Civil War

• 1862 Second Bull Run campaign begins

• Cold War

• 1957 Russia tests an intercontinental ballistic missile

• Crime

• 1986 “Preppy Murder” stuns New York
• 
  

• Disaster

• 1948 NYC and Philly sizzle in heat wave

• General Interest

• 1346 Battle of Crecy
• 1920 19th Amendment adopted
• 1968 Democratic convention besieged by protesters
• 1974 Charles Lindbergh dies

• Hollywood

• 1980 Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin born

• Literary

• 1838 Ralph Waldo Emerson meets Thomas Carlyle

• Music

• 1978 Grease movie soundtrack earns its second #1 hit

• Old West

• 1804 Lewis and Clark promote Patrick Gass to sergeant

• Presidential

• 1794 George Washington writes to Henry Lee

• Sports

• 1939 Lights, cameras, baseball

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Johnson receives Democratic nomination for president
• 1967 Major George E. Day shot down over North Vietnam
• 1968 Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago

• World War I

• 1914 Battle of Tannenberg begins

• World War II

• 1944 DeGaulle enters a free Paris