Good Morning Deplorables

It is Tuesday 8/8/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1974 Nixon resigns

• American Revolution

• 1775 Morgan and Virginians arrive in Cambridge

• Automotive

• 1963 Land Rovers used in famous Great Train Robbery

• Civil War

• 1863 Lee offers resignation

• Cold War

• 1945 Truman signs United Nations Charter

• Disaster

• 1956 Fire traps 262 miners
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• General Interest

• 1879 Emiliano Zapata born
• 1942 German saboteurs executed in Washington

• Hollywood

• 1986 Spike Lee’s first feature, She’s Gotta Have It, premieres

• Literary

• 1818 Keats returns from walking tour

• Music

• 1988 Gangsta rap hits the mainstream with the release of N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton

• Old West

• 1839 General Nelson Miles is born

• Presidential

• 1974 Nixon resigns

• Sports

• 1988 Lights go on at Wrigley

• Vietnam War

• 1968 Nixon and Agnew receive the Republican Party nomination
• 1973 Vice President Agnew under attack
• 1974 Nixon announces that he will resign the Presidency

• World War I

• 1918 Battle of Amiens

• World War II

• 1945 Soviets declare war on Japan; invade Manchuria