Good Morning Deplorables

It is Tuesday 8/22/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1950 Althea Gibson becomes first African-American on U.S. tennis tour

• American Revolution

• 1776 Redcoats land at Long Island

• Automotive

• 1962 Citroen helps De Gaulle survive assassination attempt

• Civil War

• 1862 Lincoln replies to Horace Greeley

• Cold War

• 1968 Czechs protest against Soviet invasion

• Crime

• 1933 The Barker clan kills an officer in their fruitless robbery
• 
  

• Disaster

• 1992 Hurricane Andrew pounds Bahamas

• General Interest

• 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field
• 1851 U.S. wins first America’s Cup
• 1864 International Red Cross founded
• 1922 Michael Collins assassinated
• 1992 Incident at Ruby Ridge

• Hollywood

• 1938 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers grace Life cover

• Literary

• 1935 Pulitzer Prize-winning author E. Annie Proulx is born

• Music

• 1969 Zager and Evans end a six-week run at #1 with their smash-hit “In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)"

• Old West

• 1898 Hired killer Jim Miller joins Texas Rangers

• Presidential

• 1848 Ulysses S. Grant marries

• Sports

• 1989 Nolan Ryan registers 5,000th strikeout

• Vietnam War

• 1962 Kennedy reports stalemate in Vietnam
• 1967 Graduated bombing policy condemned
• 1968 VC repudiates Johnson’s peace overture
• 1972 Demonstrators disrupt Republican National Convention in Miami Beach

• World War I

• 1914 Heavy casualties suffered in the Battles of the Frontiers

• World War II

• 1944 Romania captured by the Soviet Union