Good Morning Deplorables

It is Wednesday 8/2/2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• Lead Story

•  1990 Iraq invades Kuwait

• American Revolution

• 1776 Delegates sign Declaration of Independence

• Automotive

• 1987 Michael Andretti races to fast finish at Marlboro 500

• Civil War

• 1865 CSS Shenandoah learns the war is over

• Cold War

• 1945 Potsdam Conference concludes
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• Crime

• 1942 Man murdered near L.A. reservoir

• Disaster

• 1985 Sudden thunderstorm causes plane crash

• General Interest

• 1923 Harding dies before scandals break
• 1934 Hitler becomes fuhrer
• 1939 Einstein urges U.S. atomic action

• Hollywood

• 1939 Freddy Krueger creator Wes Craven born

• Literary

• 1869 George Eliot begins Middlemarch

• Music

• 1983 Legendary Motown bassist James Jamerson dies

• Old West

• 1876 Wild Bill Hickok is murdered

• Presidential

• 1943 Japanese forces attack PT boat with Kennedy on board

• Sports

• 1992 Jackie Joyner-Kersee wins gold in heptathlon, again

• Vietnam War

• 1964 North Vietnamese torpedo boats attack U.S. destroyer
• 1971 Nixon administration acknowledges secret army in Laos

• World War I

• 1917 Mutiny breaks out on German battleship

• World War II

• 1934 President of the Weimar Republic Hindenburg dies