Good Morning Deplorables

It is Thursday 8/3/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1958 Nautilus travels under North Pole

• American Revolution

• 1797 Lord Jeffrey Amherst dies

• Automotive

• 1977 “The Spy Who Loved Me” released, features Lotus Esprit

• Civil War

• 1823 Union General Thomas F. Meagher is born in Ireland

• Cold War

• 1948 Chambers accuses Hiss of being a communist spy

• Crime

• 1982 Sodomy arrest sparks controversy
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• Disaster

• 1975 Boeing 707 crashes into a mountain near Agadir, Morocco

• General Interest

• 1492 Columbus sets sail
• 1916 Sir Roger Casement hanged
• 1988 Soviets release Mathias Rust

• Hollywood

• 2008 Multimillion-dollar baby photos published

• Literary

• 1861 Last installment of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is published

• Music

• 1996 “The Macarena” begins its reign atop the U.S. pop charts

• Old West

• 1846 Donner party encounters first delay

• Presidential

• 1923 Calvin Coolidge takes oath of office after Harding’s death

• Sports

• 1949 NBA is born

• Vietnam War

• 1965 TV news shows Marines burning village
• 1966 Marines launch Operation Prairie

• World War I

• 1914 Germany and France declare war on each other

• World War II

• 1940 Italians move on British Somaliland