Good Morning Deplorables

It is Thursday 8/31/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1980 Polish government signs accord with Gdansk shipyard workers

• American Revolution

• 1777 Sam Mason survives Indian attack

• Automotive

• 1955 William Cobb demonstrates first solar-powered car

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Jonesboro leads to fall of Atlanta

• Cold War

• 1951 William O. Douglas calls for recognition of PRC
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• Crime

• 1985 Los Angeles mob attacks Night Stalker

• Disaster

• 1886 Earthquake shakes Charleston, South Carolina

• General Interest

• 1888 Jack the Ripper’s first victim murdered
• 1897 Edison patents the Kinetograph
• 1939 Germany prepares for invasion of Poland

• Hollywood

• 1949 Actor Richard Gere born

• Literary

• 1908 William Saroyan is born

• Music

• 1928 Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera premieres in Berlin

• Old West

• 1777 Sam Mason survives Indian attack

• Presidential

• 1935 FDR signs Neutrality Act

• Sports

• 1959 Sandy Koufax strikes out 18

• Vietnam War

• 1955 Dulles supports Diem’s decision not to hold national election
• 1965 Ky refuses to negotiate with the Communists
• 1967 Senate Committee calls for stepped-up bombing
• 1970 Thieu government maintains control of Senate
• 1972 U.S. weekly casualty figures hit new low

• World War I

• 1916 American soldier Harry Butters killed in the Battle of the Somme

• World War II

• 1944 The British cross the Gothic Line