Good Morning Deplorables

It is Thursday 8/24/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  79 Vesuvius erupts

• American Revolution

• 1776 General Lee recognizes Georgia’s value

• Automotive

• 1958 Maria Teresa de Filippis races in Portuguese Grand Prix

• Civil War

• 1828 Confederate General George Steuart is born

• Cold War

• 1954 Congress passes Communist Control Act

• Crime

• 1982 A Wall Street scheme is hatched
• 2012 Killer in Norway massacre is sentenced
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• Disaster

• 79 Eruption of Mount Vesuvius begins

• General Interest

• 1572 Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
• 1814 British capture and burn Washington
• 1821 Spain accepts Mexican independence

• Hollywood

• 1981 John Lennon’s killer sentenced

• Literary

• 1936 A.S. Byatt, author of Possession, is born

• Music

• 1974 Paul Anka has a #1 hit with “(You’re) Having My Baby”

• Old West

• 1873 Elusive Mount of the Holy Cross photographed

• Presidential

• 1814 British troops set fire to the White House

• Sports

• 1875 Captain Webb swims English Channel

• Vietnam War

• 1963 Washington changes policy on support for President Diem
• 1969 U.S. unit refuses commander’s order
• 1970 B-52s conduct heavy raids along the DMZ

• World War I

• 1914 Poet Alan Seeger volunteers in French army

• World War II

• 1942 Brave volunteers save the day in the Battle of the East Solomon Islands