Good Morning Deplorables

It is Tuesday 8/29/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1996 Charles and Diana divorce

• American Revolution

• 1774 St. Elizabeth born in New York City

• Automotive

• 1877 Charles S. Rolls born

• Civil War

• 1864 Union General Alfred Terry is promoted

• Cold War

• 1968 Riots in Chicago fracture the Cold War consensus

• Crime

• 1990 Murdered students are discovered at the University of Florida
• 2006 Fugitive polygamist leader Warren Jeffs is arrested
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• Disaster

• 1988 Air-show accident burns spectators

• General Interest

• 1879 Zulu king captured
• 1955 The death of Emmett Till
• 1963 King speaks to March on Washington
• 1968 Protests at Democratic National Convention in Chicago

• Hollywood

• 1987 John Huston dies

• Literary

• 1913 Robertson Davies is born

• Music

• 1963 Mahalia Jackson, the Queen of Gospel, puts her stamp on the March on Washington

• Old West

• 1869 Three leave Powell’s Grand Canyon expedition

• Presidential

• 1917 President Woodrow Wilson picketed by women suffragists

• Sports

• 1977 Pele leads Cosmos to title

• Vietnam War

• 1966 North Vietnamese pilots being trained in Soviet Union
• 1967 More voices raised against the war
• 1968 DNC endorses Johnson administration platform on the war in Vietnam
• 1972 U.S. Air Force gets its first ace since Korean War

• World War I

• 1914 Battle of Heligoland Bight

• World War II

• 1941 Mass slaughter in Ukraine